Vision Pro Gaming Weekly - #4

Paper Birds, Ping Pong and Cups, Flappy Birds, Pool, Unity VisionOS 2 news, and more

July 8, 2024 - July 15, 2024

Table of Contents

• New Games!

  • Lungy (App Store)

  • A Multiplayer Party cup pong game! (App Store)

  • Inua (App Store)

  • Flap Frenzy (App Store)

  • Echoes of the Wild (App Store)

  • Interactive Movie w/ Ed Northon (App Store)

  • Assasin’s Creed on Vision Pro (Reddit)

  • Apple Arcade Where Cards Fall (App Store)

  • MUST try this in Moon Portal (App Store)

  • New Gun Shooting rhythm game (App Store)

• News

  • Unity PolySpatial 2.0 (Unity Forum)

  • Poll on Hand Tracking vs Controllers (Reddit)

  • IronMan Proof of Concept (Reddit)

• Blast from the Past (App Store)

• VPGW GAME OF THE WEEK!

Crazy crazy week in the world, hope everyone is doing OK, but gaming on Vision Pro marches on! This week we’ve got more NEW games, Unity news, and more! Stick to the end for our VPGW - GAME OF THE WEEK!

New Games!

Lungy (App Store)

This was our surprise game of the week! It’s actually been around since the AVP launch, but we just discovered it. It’s actually more of a relaxation toy than it is a game, but it’s really good! The graphics, physics, and Spatial Audio are exceptional. It comes with a few free activities so try it out for sure!

A Multiplayer Party cup pong game! (App Store)

This game is super fun and pretty well done! It’s even got online SharePlay and match making modes! Definitely go try it!

Inua (App Store)

Pretty well done Spatial Interactive Adventure game. A lot of very innovative new Spatial interfaces. Worth checking out the free content. Developer definitely put a lot of love into this Vision Pro

Flap Frenzy (App Store)

Spatial game inspired by Flappy Bird. The game is actually pretty well made and has a nice sense of 3D, but it was way too hard for me 🙂 took me 6 tries to get past the first gap.

Echoes of the Wild (App Store)

This is more an experience than a game, but the graphics look pretty good from the screen shot! Has anyone tried it out?

Interactive Movie w/ Ed Northon (App Store)

This interactive VR experience, featuring Ed Norton, Joss Stone, and Archie Yates. It’s ported from other VR platforms. Looks like one of the highest quality productions on Vision Pro yet and was highly rated on other platforms. Has anyone tried? I’m tempted to buy it because it looks so high quality, but I’m not a huge fan of VR ports to Vision Pro. Vision Pro is so different than any previous platform , games that are Vision Pro FIRST are much preferred.

Assasin’s Creed on Vision Pro (Reddit)

This Redditor showed off playing this AAA game on a full APPLE setup. It’s running on their iPad and Airplaying to Apple Vision Pro!

Apple Arcade Where Cards Fall (App Store)

This is an Apple Arcade game that ha been ported to Vision Pro. It runs in a giant window and has stereoscopy so the game I looking more beautiful than it ever did on iPad, but the camera movement is a bit too fast and much for such a big window and it made me a bit nauseous. Developers need to take more care when porting iPad games.

MUST try this in Moon Portal (App Store)

This isn’t a game, more of a Spatial immersion experiment app, but it’s got a really cool SkyWalk feature where you walk down a balancing beam on a skyscraper! Must try and perfect to share with friends and family! On sale now for 50% off!

New Gun Shooting rhythm game (App Store)

Rhythm games dominating Vision Pro gaming right now! Seems there’s a new one or two every week, but funny part is they are all fun! Haven’t tried Overbeat yet, have any of you? Hope I get around to trying it as it looks cool!

News

Unity PolySpatial 2.0 (Unity Forum)

We’re so excited about the news of PolySpatial 2.0 from Unity. This is their integration package with AVP. The key new features we noticed are:

• Hybrid apps that enable mode switching across Mixed Reality and fully immersive experiences.

This feature will allow experiences like What If that transition back and forth between Passthrough and full immersive mode which is really the magic of AVP!

• Rendering Metal with passthrough to build content with passthrough while leveraging Unity graphics features that are compatible with Metal 20 out of the box.

Currently the Unity render can’t be used with Passthrough experiences so many MR games from other apps are not able to easily be ported to AVP since they would require rebuilding of all their shaders, but this metal rendering with passthrough will allow unity’s renderer to be used in passthrough which should accelerate more ports of existing VR and AR games to AVP and make it easier for Unity developers to make passthrough games!

Poll on Hand Tracking vs Controllers (Reddit)

This Redditor made a poll trying to understand what kind of controls users want! Go contribute and see the results! Was it a surprise!?!

IronMan Proof of Concept (Reddit)

This Redditor shared a prototype they are working on that we thought looked really cool! Go let them know if they should keep working on it!

Blast from the Past (App Store)

Mega VR influencer Nathie brings us back to Matrix again with the app Magic Room. This app was awesome to begin with and it just looks even crazier in Nathie’s room!

VPGW GAME OF THE WEEK!

Virtual Pool IRL (App Store)

This game is just fantastic and it’s our game of the week! You’ll really want to find enough open space to place the virtual pool table and be able to walk all around it, but the physics, graphics, and spatial sound effects are just sooo sweet! It’s even got online mode so you can play with friends around the world! Message me if you want to play online together! Definitely get this one. The only feature it’s missing is supporting Spatial Persona when you’re playing pool, but we guess the developers willl be adding it as soon as they can!

@himeltech

Playing multiplayer pool in real time mixed reality with #visionpro #billiards #xr

That’s it for this week! More Vision Pro Gaming news next week! Game on!

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