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spooki1
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im trying to play population one on my oculus pc but it says i need to buy it but i already bought it on oculus so do i have to buy it again on oculus vr ?

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Hey there, @spooki1! We'd like to do everything to make sure your time in the virtual world is running smoothly, so we wanted to pop in here to share some insight into the differences with PCVR gaming! We do want to let you know that games and other apps made for the Rift platform cannot be played on the Quest platform, unless Cross-Buy enabled by the game developers. Rift games use a PC, and therefore, higher functioning components to run the game. So it can have a better performance overall, those games/apps are specifically developed to be played utilizing a PC, and that same software would not work properly on a standalone device. This is true for Population: One, as there is a standalone version and Rift/PCVR version, located on those different sections of our webstore. We hope this clears up this situation a little bit! Let us know if you have any further question, and we'll be happy to help! 

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Hi @spooki1   .  Wow I didn't even know that Population: One was available for PCVR but seems like it is.

Here's what it says on the PC app:

"POP 1 is not free on the Rift platform.  POP1 is Free-To-Play on Meta Quest 2/Pro devices"

So, when you say "on my oculus pc", do you mean on the Oculus app?

And when you say "i already bought it on oculus" do you mean on a Quest, in the Quest store?

Big PC, all the headsets, now using Quest 3

yea i mean the oculus app and i bought it on the oculus quest 2 store stand alone

Hey there, @spooki1! We'd like to do everything to make sure your time in the virtual world is running smoothly, so we wanted to pop in here to share some insight into the differences with PCVR gaming! We do want to let you know that games and other apps made for the Rift platform cannot be played on the Quest platform, unless Cross-Buy enabled by the game developers. Rift games use a PC, and therefore, higher functioning components to run the game. So it can have a better performance overall, those games/apps are specifically developed to be played utilizing a PC, and that same software would not work properly on a standalone device. This is true for Population: One, as there is a standalone version and Rift/PCVR version, located on those different sections of our webstore. We hope this clears up this situation a little bit! Let us know if you have any further question, and we'll be happy to help! 

If you're the author of a thread, remember to mark a reply as the Accepted Solution to help others find answers!
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