Thomas Van Bouwel is on the lookout for folks so as to add Laser Dance to their wishlist on Quest 3.
To make the case, Van Bouwel and publishing companion Creature introduced a one-of-a-kind teaser to the UploadVR Summer time Showcase. A single unusually secure blended actuality shot notes “recorded on Meta Quest 3”:
The teaser is adopted by a private request from Van Bouwel to wishlist Laser Dance, which is “constructed from the bottom up for blended actuality to show your front room right into a laser impediment course straight from a spy movie,” the developer stated.
To seize the clip, Van Bouwel mounted a Quest 3 to a gimbal to stabilize the headset with an iPhone mounted in entrance of the lens to as a viewfinder capturing blended actuality gameplay at excessive ranges of element. Here is the seize rig:
We wrote about an early demo model of the sport in March and located it a standout instance of simply how implausible and totally different blended actuality gaming goes to be. Van Bouwel’s design, nevertheless, stresses the capabilities of Quest headsets. The sport sees the participant place buttons on the partitions at opposing ends of a room and its procedural methods map out a collection of laser-based impediment programs. The developer faces tough conditions to navigate round physique and hand monitoring in addition to room-mapped recreation design, with gamers discovering edge circumstances for him to design round as they reveal sudden rooms shapes or stunning methods to navigate by means of the lasers. Rolling throughout the ground, for instance, is a wonderfully possible technique for some ranges.
As Van Bouwel notes in his video, wishlisting Laser Dance on the Quest retailer exhibits assist for the hassle as nicely being the “greatest option to discover out when the sport truly releases.”
