The Netflix app for Quest headphones is no more

Netflix has discontinued its streaming app for Quest headphones, Load RV reports. The good news for Quest owners is that Meta recently added support for Netflix on the Quest browser, complete with 1080p streaming.

Netflix hasn’t significantly updated its VR app since porting it to the Quest in 2019. It never gained passthrough or download support, and its resolution remained fixed at 480p. None of this mattered when the app launched for Samsung Gear VR in 2015, but things have changed a lot in the nine years since.

I imagine some people will miss the cozy Netflix cabin in this YouTube short.

In-browser streaming fixes two of those things – passthrough and high-res streaming – but users still can’t download Netflix content to watch offline the same way they can in, say, the iOS app. Still, watching in a browser means being able to use other virtual environments while streaming video.

This is similar to what happened with Vision Pro, which Netflix also doesn’t have an app for. Apple headphones owners can still watch Netflix in a browser, which is nice, but not as good as a dedicated app experience can be. Fortunately, third-party developers have stepped in to fill the gap, releasing apps like Supercut, which streams Netflix in a web view and has a “cinema” environment very similar to what Apple created for the visionOS Apple TV app.