A brand new app arrives this fall months earlier than Meta deliberate to close it down.
Meta lately made main cuts throughout its complete VR and metaverse division, laying off hundreds and shuttering three studios. The corporate additionally introduced that the favored train app Supernatural would now not be up to date with contemporary content material. This was a bummer for followers, however there’s excellent news on the horizon. Supernatural is coming back as a brand new and independently-owned app.
A brand new firm known as Supernatural Well being is readying the app for launch this fall on the Meta Quest platform. The perfect half? The coaches are all again. The worst half? Subscription costs are going up, to $180 a yr from $100 a yr. The month-to-month subscription can also be growing from $10 to $20.
The pre-existing Supernatural app nonetheless exists for now, however it’s not getting any new exercises or songs. It’s going to be utterly 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 called the app “surprisingly efficient.” We do not know what sort of schedule the corporate will launch new songs and exercises, however one hopes the value enhance 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 division, Meta nonetheless insists one other standalone headset is in active development. An organization memo suggests the Quest 4 shall be a “massive improve” over Quest 3, however could possibly be rather more costly.
