This is just lame…. They need to port some blockbuster games for a device that costs this much.
Alien Isolation while wearing this 😱😱😱😱
Alien Isolation while wearing this 😱😱😱😱
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Vision Pro Getting More Apple Arcade Games, Including Alto's Odyssey
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The couple of people owning a Vision Pro will be pleased. The 99% would probably prefer Apple invest in some actually good (AAA) games for Mac or Arcade.
Surprised there’s no Resident Evil VR experience, since Apple does have RE Village and RE 4 available on other devices. I suppose they’d have to incentivize Capcom to port that experience over to the AVP.
So much for being a productivity tool.
Unfortunately that was an overly optimistic purchase decision.
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On a somewhat ironic side note people do drop similar and larger amounts to play games.
But they do it to play proper games.
Getting my brand new Apple thing and plying Fruit Ninja and Altos Adventure. It's like we've gone back in time a decade.
Next thing you know they'll make Temple Run for Vision Pro
Next thing you know they'll make Temple Run for Vision Pro
The potential for Immersive games is huge! Just as an example check out their Encounter Dinosaurs. It's more than just a video playing. It actually interacts with the player. While it's not immersive, the experience is incredible.
I didn't buy Vision Pro for floating iPad screens, any more than I bought the original iPad to run iPhone apps at 2x size.
But the fact that Vision Pro can run iPad apps means you aren't limited to just the few that are optimized for spatial computing (and the relative few that have been enhanced for Vision OS but aren't really taking advantage of its promise yet).
The killer App is spatial computing.
The killer app for the iPad was a bigger screen for iOS. The ability to have your list of mail messages and the one you're reading on the screen at the same time. A screen for watching Breaking Bad or Mad Men that was better than the one on the back of the seat in front of you on the airplane.
I agree with all of that. Some key apps are missing, and those that are present are lacking key features. Thankfully, this is software, so Vision OS 2 will likely fix some of it.
But I don't begrudge the developers who work on Apple Arcade games enhancing those games to be able to run on Vision Pro.
wouldn't you know, but somewhere a developer is working on a game for AVP that enables you to take a virtual CD in your hands and insert it into a virtual playstation/SNES/sega saturn and play some oldie 2d game on your far more capable MR headset
this is what I suspect too. there were and are other VR/MR headsets out there and they all placed their bets on gaming, yet the big iPhone moment did not come.
One key app that I need sometimes is Microsoft Remote Desktop Client. It's not yet available in the AppStore, but I found it for TestFlight. It's running great. Also, the VPN Clients I need to use work perfectly on the Vision Pro.
Where are the actual immersive VR games that occupy the entire visual field?
…which so far is almost exclusively 2D windows floating in space.
Still shocked after the alien vs predator launch Apple didn’t really try to sell us on immersive gaming. Hell even the quest 3 will make it look like there’s aliens or zombies coming in your living room and controllers as guns. Or the ocean deep app where you can paint windows in your house to look like an Aquarium
Apples headset? You get a thing with Alicia keys and that’s pretty much it. For a product they worked a decade on, they should have had more content ready
Apples headset? You get a thing with Alicia keys and that’s pretty much it. For a product they worked a decade on, they should have had more content ready
Just because it's not a first person game doesn't mean it's going to be 2D.
i am so glad they are investing all this time and effort into adding apple arcade. the pinnacle of gaming.
IMO Vision Pro should come with a permanent free Arcade subscription as long as the two are registered to the same Apple account.
Just curious, are the apps in 3D?
As in, are they like the Nintendo 3DS where the environments are stereoscopic? Or is it just a plain 2D game?
Because I feel like there's some lost potential there if it's the latter.
I'd actually enjoy playing non-immersive games if they were stereoscopic like the 3DS. Or at the very least having 3D elements outside of the frame like Wylde Flowers:
As in, are they like the Nintendo 3DS where the environments are stereoscopic? Or is it just a plain 2D game?
Because I feel like there's some lost potential there if it's the latter.
I'd actually enjoy playing non-immersive games if they were stereoscopic like the 3DS. Or at the very least having 3D elements outside of the frame like Wylde Flowers:
Apple needs to give up on promoting gaming on this thing until they decide to get serious with it and add support for motion controllers. Until then it’s a massive joke just like Apple Arcade. They should do like what others are saying and focus on productivity, which is what it’s supposed to be for.
It’s for content generation and consumption. The built in cameras are great for recording 3-d scenes. And the home theatre experience is the best.
We need YouTube, Hulu, Netflix, Prime, and others on this platform first and foremost.
It’s absolutely not for games. Games need big budgets for big audiences and that’s not going to happen for a $4k device.