We're coming up on the halfway point of the biggest year in VR history, with just-announced Batman and Alien games on the horizon, and developers starting to find their mixed reality feet in Laser Dance and Niantic's Hello Dot.
The biggest trend in VR gaming in 2024 is the blurring of the lines between flat content and VR that are becoming blurred.
With the help of the UEVR mod, the tireless efforts of Team Beef, and the official announcement from Flat2VR Studios, a variety of hotly anticipated Unreal Engine games can essentially turn on robust VR support in games that many people already own.
Meanwhile, the open-source project Delta and a change in Apple's policy finally opened up to the visionProand other gates supported by classic gaming system emulators on Apple platforms.
Before flying to San Francisco, Don (Don) jumps into the Dune Flyer from Microsoft Flight Simulator and flies over the Arakis in an attempt to complete a rescue mission. Unfortunately, he fails to complete the difficult final mission, and the desert swallows the weakling.
New brand Creature has teamed up with Thomas Van Bouwel, creator of Cubism, to launch Laser Dance. Henry's hands-on report highlights the impressive laser-dodging game as the most impressive demo of mixed reality to date.Creature is also going to be working for theQuest 3 brings Starship Home, one of the first exclusives, and now a few months after Laser Dance showed off its cool ideas, Niantic's Hello Dot paired withMetaThe latest dynamic shading is impressive.
All of these changes come on the heels of one of the most significant foundational changes Meta has made in many years.Meta's Application Labs system is now being merged with Horizon OS, and is no longer a separate early access section with a hard-to-find list.
Important Upcoming VR and Mixed Reality Games
Watch our hour-long live recap video embedded above discussing all of this and more, the video also contains some trailers for the game.
If you don't have the time, the gist here is that the desert of VR and mixed reality gaming will turn into a flood in the coming months as developers begin to find out what they can do with the XR2 Gen 2 processor, hand tracking, dynamic occlusion, and the new tools available to them through the still-in-development operating systems Horizon OS and visionOS.
For example, seasoned VR studio Survios is looking to launch Alien: Invasion of the Rangers, a frightening new Alien experience, on most headsets.
Additionally, Meta's Camouflaj finally shows off first impressions of Batman: Arkham Shadow. Expectations are extremely high in terms of realizing the superhero fantasy of traveling through the air like Iron Man.
We're not even halfway through 2024, and these headlines are telling a story - VR headsets are set to have their biggest year ever, and developers are accelerating to build games on Apple's TestFlight, Meta's App Lab, and even Steam's Early Access.
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