Starship House, a plant-filled blended actuality journey, is the primary introduced Quest 3 unique sport.
Developed by Creature, Starship House marks the studio’s debut sport since its founding final yr. It turns your lounge right into a starship utilizing MR passthrough, and you may embark on an interplanetary expedition that includes gathering, nurturing, and befriending alien crops who want care throughout the galaxy. Promising a narrative-driven story the place you examine the sinister blight affecting these crops, this is the announcement trailer:
Starship House makes use of the 3D scene mesh generated by Quest 3 throughout blended actuality room setup to place digital objects in your partitions and furnishings, and that is probably why it isn’t launching on older headsets. Whereas Quest 2 and Quest Professional allow you to manually mark out your partitions and furnishings as rectangular cuboids, that is an arduous and imprecise course of. Moreover, Quest 2’s passthrough may be very low-resolution black and white.
“Constructing a wealthy, significant, and ahead wanting blended actuality expertise requires options which might be solely out there on Quest 3,” Creature founder Doug North Cook dinner informed UploadVR. “Starship House is our try at making a blended actuality sport that strikes past simply being a demo, a toy, or a prototype and lays the groundwork for what video games in blended actuality could be – aware of your setting, wealthy and fascinating, and stuffed with magic. Our hope is that we see extra gadgets transferring ahead that allow any such gameplay.”
Earlier than Join 2023, Meta confirmed Quest 3 would not have any exclusives till 2024, excluding the blended actuality tutorial First Encounters. Again in January, Townsmen VR turned the primary Quest 3 sport unavailable on older Quest headsets. Nevertheless, as a result of it is also on PC VR and PlayStation VR2, Townsmen VR cannot be thought-about the primary true Quest 3 unique.
Starship House launches solely on Quest 3 in Q3 2024.