Don't expect too much. Most developers need to eat which costs money, and money is one sure thing they aren't going to make from supporting a device with so few users
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Spatial Puzzle Game 'Where Cards Fall' Now Available on Apple Vision Pro
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And Beat Saber is more complex, because it requires tracking of hand/controller position and rotation, while Synth Riders only requires position.
Bring up app support. It's great that Most Devs give support and eat the cost when needed. However, some fail to support problems related to issues with their work. They ignored and banned users from remarks about their apps. That's where people complain most. That can't take criticismDon't expect too much. Most developers need to eat which costs money, and money is one sure thing they aren't going to make from supporting a device with so few users
This specific app looks like it's equivalent to the 3D on a 3DS, but that's not true for 3D in VR in general.
3D from a fixed perspective (unrelated to your physical head position) on a display that is (usually) in a fixed position isn't really comparable to 3D in VR, where you have a free perspective that follows your head movement.
Think about playing a 3d-rendered mini golf game in a traditional 2D display. You indirectly control a character you see on the screen. Adding stereoscopy may make the character appear slightly in front of or behind the screen, but you are still controlling it indirectly. With VR, you are holding the club and standing on the putting green.
You say that no 3DS game depended on the 3D, and that may be true, but stereoscopy doesn't really open up many possibilities unless you intentionally remove other depth cues. There were a few bonus areas in Mario 3D Land that did that, but yeah, it that was mostly a gimmick. Virtual Boy had a fixed position as well... it wasn't strapped to the user's face.
I'd say that the stereoscopy aspect of VR gaming is less important than how it shows you a realistic position based on your head position.
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They may be holding off for the international release, as they would need to add additional language support. It may not make much sense but that’s all we got.
Hopefully VisionOS 2 is not a disappointment, but it’s usable since its first beta..
You can get apple arcade free trial with hardware purchase, what a deal.
Apple Newton sales were 200,000 over its lifetime. AVP had sold more than that during preorder.
Apple is now one of worlds leading companies and over 40x bigger than the mediocre company of the mid 90s.
I agree. I've experienced a few VR demos. I see how there's some games that are improved by it. There are some games that might not be possible without it.
But there's nowhere near enough of them to justify a purchase of any VR headset. We need such games to come out at least 4-5 times per year. Instead it seems like they're coming 3 times per decade at best. The only killer app for VR that people ever seem to mention is Beat Saber. I'll mention another one - Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.
IDK, maybe the proper way to really get VR out into the world is by following an arcade model? Don't make people buy the hardware themselves for now, and have developers just focus on making games that are amazing to play for a few minutes at a time and that people are willing to spend $1 for a 5-10 minute experience. The focus for hardware developers would be on making the hardware easily sharable, so that a human doesn't have to constantly be on hand to manually clean it.
Actually this port is pretty impressive. The game is in a window, but everything is rendered in 3D with the camera angle allowing for a greater sense of depth. It is a bit 3DS-y but it looks nice. Even more impressive is the accuracy of the vision based input; look where you want to go, tap your fingers together and you go to that exact spot. The controls alone make you want to keep playing. All-in-all a pretty good addition to the Apple Arcade offerings and rounds out one of the biggest weeks for games for the Vision Pro to date. We all agree things aren’t where they need to be with AVP and games but there have been some meaningful additions over the past week. Hopefully there is some momentum.
You want people to make up positive replies? Apple should setup a bounty, first dev that gets 1000 downloads, gets a bonus.
No doubt! Though, still a stretch to refer to selling 200,000 units over a number of years being considered more successful.