Five years after its announcement Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas VR has finally come to the Meta Quest 3 — via a vibe-coded fan-made mod

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August 27, 2026, 2:45 PM

• •A Flat2VR Discord community member named GeT_RiCh is developing a fan-made VR port of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for Meta Quest 3.
• •The mod is unfinished and installation requires multiple components, including a specific Google Play APK version of the game and a PS2 sound pack.
• •TechRadar says Meta's officially announced San Andreas VR project, revealed at Connect 2021, never launched.
• •The article cites unconfirmed possibilities for the cancellation or delay, including VR conversion challenges, Quest 2 hardware limits, and profitability concerns.
• •The modder is reportedly using Anthropic's Claude to assist with parts of the coding process.

TechRadar reports that a Flat2VR community modder has created a work-in-progress way to play Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas in VR on the Meta Quest 3. The article says the setup is complex, requiring an original Google Play version of the game, a PS2 sound pack, a PC, Quest 3 developer mode, and significant storage space. It notes that Meta announced an official San Andreas VR project in 2021 but never shipped it, with the reasons still unconfirmed. The piece also says the modder has used Claude to help code parts of the project.

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