In early 2021 Meta launched App Lab for Quest which permits builders to distribute their video games on the headset with out going by Meta’s curation course of. There’s now 1,457 video games and apps accessible on App Lab, greater than triple the variety of apps on the primary Quest retailer.
Replace – October twentieth, 2022
There’s now 1,457 apps accessible for Quest by way of App Lab, in response to submissions tracked by VRDB. Within the one yr and eight months since launch, the variety of apps on App Lab has greater than tripled the variety of apps on the primary Quest retailer, which stands at 414 after practically three and a half years of operation.
The discrepancy reveals that many extra builders want to be on the primary retailer than Meta permits. So far we’re solely conscious of a handful of apps which have made the leap from App Lab to the primary Quest retailer.
App Lab apps are functionally ‘unlisted’ (unsearchable with out understanding the app’s title) in the primary Quest retailer, however obtain a standard retailer web page which could be accessed straight by way of a URL and put in with a single click on as soon as logged in, similar to any Quest app in the primary retailer. The distinction is that Meta picks and chooses which apps to incorporate in the primary Quest retailer based mostly on some qualitative standards, whereas App Lab apps don’t want to satisfy any particular bar outdoors of being technically sound.
Since its launch on February third, 2021 Meta has authorized a mean of two.6 apps per day to App Lab. The primary Quest retailer sits at 414 apps. Given the time for the reason that launch of the primary Quest retailer, that’s a mean of 0.25 apps added to the shop per day.
For added context, the variety of Meta’s PC purposes sits round 1,350 and SteamVR purposes round 4,500. Although all of those platforms have been round for years longer, none of them have been topic to the form of curation that Meta has imposed on Quest purposes within the headset’s principal retailer.
Beneath is a breakdown of the highest 20 App Lab purposes by ranking and recognition.
Greatest Rated Quest Video games in App Lab
The ranking of every software is an mixture of person opinions and a helpful method to perceive the final reception of every title by customers (apps with lower than 50 opinions are excluded).
Most In style Quest Video games in App Lab
The variety of rankings offers a ballpark concept of the relative reputation of every title; a title with extra rankings is prone to have been downloaded greater than a title with much less, although there’s actually an unknown margin of error (apps with lower than 50 opinions are excluded).
When you’re enthusiastic about related charts for the primary Quest retailer, see our newest charts.