Minecraft:Gear VR Edition

Template:Italic title Template:Discontinued Template:Infobox program Minecraft: Gear VR Edition<ref name = Release/> was the former title of the version of Template:El designed for Minecraft:virtual reality, which was available for Template:W through Template:W, and Template:W through Template:WTemplate:Fn through the Template:W headset. It had crossplay with Minecraft:Pocket Edition and its derived editions. It was released on April 27, 2016,<ref>Template:Cite</ref><ref name="video">Template:Ytl</ref> as a port from v0.14.2 alpha.<ref>Template:Tweet</ref><ref name=Release/> Although Pocket Edition was released on the Galaxy Store, Gear VR Edition was never made free to owners of Pocket Edition on that platform. Following the Minecraft:Better Together Update, it is no longer named Gear VR Edition.

As of 1.16.40, Minecraft for Gear VR has not received new feature updates, such as Minecraft:Caves & Cliffs (1.17 & 1.18), Minecraft:the Wild Update, Minecraft:Trails & Tales, etcetera, and has been discontinued ever since.<ref>Template:Cite</ref>

The most recent feature update for Minecraft on Gear VR devices is the Minecraft:Nether Update.

Development

The idea of Minecraft for Gear VR devices first started in 2014 with Template:Wikipedia, who at the time was the CTO of Template:Wikipedia. He tweeted the following, 7 months after Notch initially recused Oculus:<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>

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@notch @brendaniribe say the word, ship the source, and i'll make sure It runs well on you-know-what...

In 2015, John Carmack announced that Oculus Rift support would come to Windows 10 Edition the following year, but has said that a Gear VR edition is on the way and is essentially being ported from Minecraft:Pocket Edition:

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@Kithop @_tomcc it isn't Win 10 only, it is also GearVR, which the java code was never going to run effectively on. Not Mac/Linux, true.

Minecraft: Gear VR Edition was then confirmed to be released in spring.<ref>Template:Cite</ref><ref>Template:Cite</ref>

Gallery

• Minecraft: Gear VR Edition logo
  Minecraft: Gear VR Edition logo
• File:Gear VR Edition screenshot.jpg
• File:Gear VR Edition blog image.jpg