Meta’s flagship VR app is catching up to the NES by making A the jump button

Jan 24 2023 by The Verge

 
I, too, am throwing my hands in the air for this change. | Image: Meta

Meta is making a big improvement to controls in its social VR platform Horizon Worlds: jump is being remapped to the A button, according to a blog post about the app’s new v94 update.

You might be surprised to hear that wasn’t the case before, especially given that the A button has been widely used for jumping in video games for decades. But before now, you jumped in Horizon Worlds by pressing the right...

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