Retrocade turns the Vision Pro into a convincing virtual arcade
The best reason to play games on Apple's headset yet
In my Vision Pro review, I identified a few — and only a few — core use cases for Apple’s VR headset. Movies? Definitely. Giant virtual Mac display? Yes. Immersive video content? For sure, while it lasts.
Games? Not so much.
But a new release on Apple Arcade this week is the most impressive gaming software I’ve seen on the Vision Pro, promising to convert your personal space into a virtual video games arcade from the ‘80s.
Retrocade is developed by Resolution Games, a Swedish studio that has released a range of titles for the Vision Pro as well as Meta Quest headsets. It’s also available on the iPhone and iPad, but the Vision Pro experience is clearly where most of the effort has been made.
After a slightly overwrought tutorial, Retrocade drops you in the middle of a virtual Los Angeles arcade. You can walk around it if you have the physical space, or just drop any of the cabinets right in front of you. There’s also an option to place them right in your physical environment through passthrough mixed reality, as well as a windowed mode that floats the cabinet screens in mid-air anywhere you want to place them.
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