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June 21, 2023
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oculus rift home

Hi all

I've been using my Oculus Rift happily for some years now but at some point recently it seems that the "homes" that I had built and all the object that I had collected have just vanished.

I now have a the "grey field" when I log in to my headset, All the games etc., seem to work okay but I do miss the homes I had built.

Is it true that they have all gone for good ?

Thanks

David

MetaStoreHelp
Community Manager
June 22, 2023

Hey deltaalpha52. Recently, we stopped supporting the older Oculus Home experience within the Rift software. This standalone app had some great customization features that we loved playing with, and hope to bring some of it into the future. We know this is disappointing news for everyone who loved using their Oculus Home, and we feel it too.

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MetaStoreHelp
Community Manager
June 22, 2023

Hey deltaalpha52. Recently, we stopped supporting the older Oculus Home experience within the Rift software. This standalone app had some great customization features that we loved playing with, and hope to bring some of it into the future. We know this is disappointing news for everyone who loved using their Oculus Home, and we feel it too.

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Barbarianprince
New Participant
July 9, 2023

WHY!!!!  why wouldnt you just leave the app alone so we could at least enjoy all the content and trinkets we have built up over the years !!!

Not to mention visiting other peoples homes was by far the most enjoyable experience anyone who tried on my headset had !!!  

New Participant
July 21, 2023

I had the same thought of playing Oculus Homes again but on a server, I don't know how I would do that. Would you know how to do it?

New Participant
August 18, 2023

I am very unhappy with the loss of Oculus Home.  I liked my Home and spent a great deal of time setting it up exactly to my preferences.  It seems to be a pointless and exasperating forced change, and I don't believe Meta will be able to justify the nuisance it presents to those users who will miss the Home. This is VR we're using, and Meta has just decided to lose a rich, satisfying, and immersive aspect of the user experience - the whole point of VR - in favour of a lacklustre menu that could be just as well represented by a flat screen.  The Oculus Home environment was one of the Rift's unique selling points, and its removal is very frustrating and alienating to those of us who viewed it as part of their account and self-presentation.  Why don't you just change all our usernames and virtual avatars while you're at it, while we're all losing control of our preferences anyway?

New Participant
August 19, 2023

Steam VR is still a viable option. You can access it with your Oculus PCVR head set or Quest 2 with Air Link or cable. Steam VR even has an app where you can create your own Home and share it. I'm just mentioning this because it seems Meta no longer has any interest in giving it's customers PCVR Homes, and I am sure they won't mind if we go elsewhere.

New Participant
September 14, 2023

Can you weasels stop saying "we understand some experiences come to an end"? I've literally never had a company come and remove software from my computer behind my back before. This is an unprecedented violation of trust with your users. Meta screwed up big time. Nobody is saying they had to update or improve it, or even sustain the social aspects -- just leave it in place so users can enjoy what they paid for and worked on.

The only reason for Meta to have done this was complete and total disdain for your customers. Since in this case it was a small number of users, they'll get away with it without serious repercussions -- but it indicates their decision making process is garbage and they intend to treat their users like garbage. Based on the stupidity of this decision, Meta is sure to mess up far bigger things in the future. No wonder New Horizons is such a failure: Meta has zero understanding of what is enjoyable in VR, what is valuable to their customers, or indeed that their customers are valuable at all. I will never spend money on a Meta product again.

Shame on everyone involved in this.

Up and Coming
November 4, 2023

I don't really care about losing home. What I do care about is that this isn't the first time Meta/Facebook have discontinued something that I was using. In fact it's at least the third. To be fair, you'd already lost me anyway (Between the loss of focus on PCVR and just being plain creepy as a company) but this definitely cements that I won't be making any kind of investment in your technologies going forward.

Participant
January 23, 2024

And their solution is "we're sad too".

New Participant
March 10, 2024

This really is upsetting to learn that this feature is gone.  Devastated as it took me YEARS to collect some of the items in my houses and just like that POOF.  Meta, really...couldn't just let the loyal Oculus fans and beta personal keep their home environment, I've had three rifts, countless accessories and spent thousands of dollars and the best part of the night in VR was relaxing at home with friends across the world.  In a world were everyone is being divided, I guess you could not let us have a sweet moment to connect with friends in a lovely custom environment.  

Really poor form Meta...no wonder I stay away from the Facebook toxic environment already.  Thanks for taking away a simple inexpensive pleasure and helping to divide the world further!

I'll be heading over to Sony VR2 now and forget that Oculus and Meta exist!

Up and Coming
December 8, 2024

Yes it seems that way in Canada we call that BS. And the way of the world

Honored Contributor
September 10, 2025

I don't understand all this.  I only stated exactly what happens in the real world. The evidence is right here. Maybe I've hurt all your delicate feelings. So I'm sorry if I did.  

Up and Coming
September 10, 2025

No, you didn't. You equated different industries like they're the same and then proclaimed that it's normal for software to just stop working on support end. That's entirely false but you'd have known that if you'd actually read my responses to you instead of freaking out about "novels".

Honored Contributor
September 10, 2025

All industries are the same. They're in the business of making money and streamlining operations and ending old products and services. 

Participant
September 10, 2025

We know what happened!!!! Why do you have a need to explain it?  

 

Honored Contributor
September 10, 2025

I suffered a torrent of criticism for just giving an opinion and stating some facts. If you don't want to hear it, don't post on a public forum. Send private messages to people who will agree with you. This is a place where differing opinions are normal. 

Up and Coming
September 10, 2025

Yes, Maccy, if your don't want to hear it, don't post on a public forum. Please follow your own advice. Other people are also allowed to give their "opinions" and state some "facts".

The problem however is that you did anything but give an opinion and state facts. What you said was completely ignorant and flat-out wrong.

You're free to read my "novels" to figure out why.