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Vision Pro Gaming Weekly #10 - Enter the Matrix?
Castle Crumble, Puzzle Sculpt, Hauntify, Meta Cancels AVP competitor, TikTok's Pico 4 Ultra!, Owlchemy Labs CEO speaks!
VisionProGamingGuy
September 11, 2024
🔘Press Start - Enter the Matrix?
Apple Vision Pro, being a passthrough Mixed Reality headset allows for something truly profound. It can selectively replace every pixel, every photon that is sent to your eyes with something generated by the computer. This means you view reality as you are used to or you view a digital reality, or some mix of both! This is lending to lots of developers exploring games and apps that play on the themes from the movie The Matrix. This week one app in particular brought a HUGE smile to my face. It’s not really a full game but I still hope you all try it right away! Sometimes gaming is just about the moment of glee that the medium can bring.
The Construct - Another Matrix Experience (App Store)
Totally simple little app. Totally brought a smile to my face. try it out :)
Table of Contents
🆕 New Games!
Castle Crumble - Apple Arcade (App Store)
Like a 3d angry birds. worth a play if you already have Apple Arcade.
Puzzle Sculpt - Apple Arcade (App Store)
A very well made puzzle game. Kind of has a 3d sudoku vibe to it. I had fun trying it so definitely recommend trying it out. My only issue was that rotating the puzzles was a bit hard since you grab it directly and use your hand to rotate but the human hand is very limited have far it can rotate.
Fly now includes street view (App Store)
This is a pretty cool app that allows you to fly through google maps. They added a feature now where you can see a street view 360 photo when available. Not a game changer but nice to check out if you already have this app.
Zenn Meditation (App Store)
I actually really enjoyed this app. it’s simple and really effective in guiding you to meditate and relax. Kudos to the developer for being innovative.
Monster Hands - Spooky WebXR Experience (www)
This is not really a game, more just a simple 3d scene, but it’s so cool to see such high quality VR graphics working with webXR in safari. Make sure to turn on immersive webXR for safari to try it in fully immersive mode.
Flappy Experience (App Store)
Took me five tries to score 1 pt. I quit after that 🙂 Probably even harder than the original mobile game it’s inspired from. You flap your arms to trigger your flap.
Very creative VR game. This is just a teaser for the developer’s greater vision. Some real creativity here, be warned though it might fry your brain in multiple ways!
Hauntify Mixed Reality (App Store)
A very very ambitious title that’s probably a bit ahead of the technology right now. But it still brought a smile to my face! Only worth it if you are looking to want a view into the future of mixed reality horror experiences!
PullPull! (App Store)
Cute little game. Hopefully the developer keeps working on it as it has potential to become a cute and fun little app as they add more functionality.
🗞️News
Discussion on reddit about gaming on AVP (reddit)
Come join the conversation!
Fortnite on AVP (Reddit)
Redditor shows off playing Fortnite on iPad streamed to Apple Vision Pro
Black Myth on AVP (Reddit)
Redditor shows off playing Black Myth using Moonlight to stream to AVP
Vision Pro as a Game Display (Reddit)
redditor shares his experience using Vision Pro as a standalone gaming device playing normal games
BTS filming a Vision Pro Gaming commericial (YouTube)
🛠️Hardware Zone
Surreal Touch Kickstarter goes live! (Kickstarter)
These 3rd party controllers are finally available on kickstarter and hit their funding goals within a single day! Now they are working on delivering by Christmas!
Rumors have it is that Meta has stopped all work on their high end headset that was to complete with Vision Pro. Apparently they will focus on their mixed reality lower end headset that looks more like chunky glasses that has moved as much of their weight off the head as possible including the processing and battery in a wired attachment.
Pico 4 Ultra Released! (YouTube)
When this news came out and I saw the marketing it looked like it was a serious competitor to the Vision Pro, but now that all the hands on and impressions are out it seems as if it’s closer to quest3 than Vision Pro. The feature list looks impressive, but the quality of experience just isn’t there yet. Not a surprise given the quality of passthrough on the Pico 4 I saw last year. Doing great passthrough is not easy at all folks! Just try quest 3 and compare it to Vision Pro and you’ll understand.
🧑💻Developer Corner
Moon Portal added a roller coaster (reddit) (TestFlight)
Moon portal is testing out a new extreme roller coaster ride. Go to their Testflight to help them test it out. Warning: not for the faint of heart!
New Tutorial series on content for Vision Pro Apps and Games (YouTube)
Sarang Borude starting a fantastic new series on building a dinosaur app like encounter disnosaur
Owlchemy Labs CEO Interview (YouTube)
The CEO of Owlchemy Labs, the makers of Job and Vacation Simulator did a great interview about what they think of Apple Vision Pro. This interview is 4 months old but I just found it for the first time.
Summary:
Very positive about the whole AVP and MR ecosystem
AVP an amazing platform to work on, having so much complete available
Quite a lot of work, having to work with Apple and Unity3D to get it all working
We’re very early in the art of XR games still!
Developer working on police quest for AVP (YouTube)
Going to date myself a bit here, but thought this is a really cool project. A developer is working on a Spatial version of the classic game Police Quest! If you’ve never even head of it go do a bit of searching on Police Quest and Sierra Games. Seriously one of the OG game developers that helped build the games industry!
Block Stack for Vision Pro (TestFlight)
Developer looking for testers for their jenga like spatial puzzle game
Volleyball augmenter (x.com)
This developer shared their concept of a volleyball augmenter. I’m super hyped on this new genre of games/apps, augmenters, but so far this doesn’t look that compelling. Object tracking on Vision Pro is quite low frame rate right now so will have to seriously work around not getting a very good volleyball tracking quality and still have it be fun and useful.
Spider Incursion (YouTube)
I’m too excited for this app! Hope the developer follows through and releases this! MR games really need to interact with your world around you and what can be cooler than spiders crawling all over your room and furniture!
Puzzling Places Dev speaks again (Substack)
Puzzling places developer speaks again. This time he seems to have gotten more comfortable with AVP and recommends developers embrace AVP’s differences to other XR platforms.
That’s it for this week! More Vision Pro Gaming news next week! Game on!
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