China Yuanku's Wrath of Drones expedition news demo is basically a space pirate trainer in mixed reality

MetaMeta released an open-source Quest demo app that includes a small game that's basically a mixed reality Space Pirate Trainer. "Drone Rage" replaces your ceiling with a night sky with an alien mothership that sends out waves of flying robotic enemies that you can fight off with dual-wielded laser pistols. The mini-game was one of two demos from Meta's new Discover, which showcased the potential of mixed reality on the Quest. Another demo, Bike, walks you through assembling a bike by grabbing parts on a surface by your side. Anyone can download and try Discover and the demos within, but it's primarily intended for developers to showcase the potential of mixed reality on the Quest. The Discover demos show developers how to use Meta's various software development kits (SDKs) to build immersive mixed reality applications, including remote and co-located multi-person experiences. It uses the Quest Passthrough API to display the real world, the Quest Scene API for walls, ceilings, and furniture as geometry, and the Meta Interaction SDK to handle the user interface and grab, hold, and place objects. For co-location experiences, it leverages the Quest Shared Spatial Anchors API. For remote multiplayer over the Internet, it utilizes the Meta Avatars SDK. Of course, running a room-aware mixed reality app like this requires painstakingly hand-marking out your room geometry on Quest 2 and Quest Pro, and on Quest 2 the perspective is very low-res and black and white. The upcoming Quest 3 may automatically scan your room, and its perspective color quality is said to be even better than the Quest Pro. Discover is free for anyone to download on the App Lab, and the source code is available on GitHub.