A brand new app arrives q4 months earlier than Meta deliberate to close it down.
Meta lately made main cuts throughout its whole VR and metaverse department, shedding masses and shuttering 3 studios. The corporate additionally introduced that the preferred workout app Supernatural would now not be up to date with contemporary content material. This used to be a bummer for fanatics, however there is just right information at the horizon. Supernatural is coming again as a brand new and independently-owned app.
A brand new corporate referred to as Supernatural Well being is readying the app for release q4 at the Meta Quest platform. The most efficient section? The coaches are all again. The worst section? Subscription costs are going up, to $180 a yr from $100 a yr. The per thirty days subscription could also be expanding from $10 to $20.
The pre-existing Supernatural app nonetheless exists for now, however it is not getting any new workout routines or songs. It is going to be totally sunsetted on December 3. At that time, customers should migrate to the brand new app.
That is nice information for VR health fanatics, as we referred to as the app “unusually efficient.” We do not know what sort of agenda the corporate will unlock new songs and workout routines, however one hopes the cost building up interprets to extra content material. We additionally do not know if the corporate will be capable of port the app to different platforms.
Regardless of taking a blowtorch to its VR department, Meta nonetheless insists some other standalone headset is in lively building. An organization memo suggests the Quest 4 can be a “massive improve” over Quest 3, however may well be a lot more dear.
