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Quest 3 mixed reality game brings Minecraft into the real world

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One YouTuber tried BlockVerse's Mixed Reality mode outdoors and described it as "real-life Minecraft".

BlockVerse是一款适用于Meta is a Minecraft clone for the Meta Quest headset that supports not only virtual reality but also mixed reality. The default Mixed Reality view presents parts of the world as miniature landscape models floating in front of you, but it also supports full-size Mixed Reality mode.

To actually use this mode, you'll need a warehouse or flat outdoor space. You may also need to enable Developer Mode to disable the headset's security boundaries, as it only supports spaces up to 15 x 15 meters.

YouTuber Brandon Ballinger (AwakenToast) tried this with his Quest 3, and the result is a glimpse into the vast untapped potential of outdoor mixed reality gaming:

Ballinger begins by digging a virtual hole in the physical ground, and expresses amazement at the "sense of depth" he gets from looking down into the hole. In the video, you can see him carefully avoiding falling into the virtual hole he's dug, even though it's clear that the hole isn't real.

He proceeded to build a virtual house, noting that the house seemed to stay in place even as he wandered around the vast grassy area, suggesting that Quest 3's position tracking system has little to no drift at this scale.

When he added the ceiling to the house, the line between virtual and mixed reality became blurred. Through the empty doorway at this point he could see into the real world, highlighting the fact that mixed reality can be a continuum of merged spaces, not just a binary switch.

However, Quest 3 does not yet implement dynamic occlusion (it is still too experimental to be used in an application), which is also evident here. In several clips of the video, you can see Ballinger walking in front of trees, but his virtual creation is still rendered in front of the trees. Even more uncomfortable is the fact that at the end of the video, when he's walking with his children, they should appear in his virtual house, but in reality they're only visible through the doorway, as if half-buried in the ground.

On a more positive note, this video got me thinking about how appealing a game like this would be with live multiplayer online. Yes, the defunct Minecraft Earth tried this mode on mobile devices. But seeing virtual objects appear in the real world in a head-mounted device is a completely different and better experience than just seeing them on your phone's camera preview screen.

With Meta making security boundaries less restrictive, we may soon see a wave of outdoor mixed reality gaming where you and your friends can take your headsets to the park to play games and create things. Games could even incorporate public play and persistence to provide massively multiplayer experiences in the real world. How close are we to a "Pokemon GO moment" for mixed reality headsets?

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