Iron Man VR Breaks Free From Cords & Load Screens On Quest 2 - UploadVR

At motorboat successful 2020, Marvel’s Iron Man VR was a fantastic PSVR game that fto you genuinely embody Tony Stark and his iconic suit of armor. However, the crippled was besides hindered successful places by the hardware it ran on.

With Iron Man VR flying onto Quest 2 adjacent month, it looks similar developers Camouflaj are capable to afloat recognize their archetypal imaginativeness for the game.

“The squad truly tried to punch supra its weight,” said Camouflaj laminitis Ryan Payton, reflecting connected the PSVR launch. “We shipped a beauteous large crippled for the platform, we pushed immoderate truly awesome visuals. We pushed retired a gameplay dynamic that truly hasn’t been done by immoderate different crippled studio. [But] we did it successful a mode that didn’t thin into the halfway strengths of the platform.”

After playing a fewer missions of Iron Man VR connected Quest 2 this week, it’s wide that Quest 2 is simply a overmuch amended acceptable for the game. “The game’s halfway phantasy is capable to travel done successful a overmuch much axenic manner [on Quest]” said Payton. Not lone is it a much freeing experience, but respective symptom points from the PSVR merchandise are obscurity to beryllium seen.

The astir notable alteration (or slightest noticeable, depending connected however you look astatine it) is the very abbreviated loading times. On PSVR, Iron Man VR was notorious arsenic a fantastic acquisition fto down by unfathomably agelong load screens. While the Camouflaj squad was blessed with the wide effect to the PSVR release, the load times were 1 country that ever remained problematic, constricted by the PS4’s aged hard thrust technology. “We privation we could person done much erstwhile it came to the load times [on PSVR]” said Payton. “But it wasn’t owed to a deficiency of effort.”

Thanks to the coagulated authorities thrust (SSD) connected Quest 2, this is nary longer a problem. The SSD makes each the difference, with cinematics and missions loading successful a substance of seconds. You’ll hide it was adjacent an issue. “We had discussions whether oregon not we adjacent request a load surface for immoderate of the missions,” said Payton. “It’s truthful fast, wherefore bash we adjacent request to amusement the subordinate that the crippled is loading?”

PSVR was besides a tethered headset with conscionable 1 outer camera for tracking, requiring immoderate method workarounds and cablegram absorption to play with 360 grade movement. On Quest 2, Iron Man VR is wire-free and you tin play with afloat scope of unobstructed movement. It’s a delight to fling yourself successful immoderate absorption utilizing speedy carnal turns – 360 grade combat and flying has ne'er felt better.

“It conscionable feels similar the players person been capable to acquisition the halfway essence of what we were looking to make from the precise beginning,” said Payton. “Which is to present connected the eventual superhero phantasy pairing Iron Man with VR.”

Marvel’s Iron Man VR launches November 3 for Quest 2 – support an oculus retired for our afloat reappraisal astatine launch.

Harry Baker

Harry has been covering the VR/AR manufacture since 2019. He comes from a exertion and gaming background, with acquisition successful originative writing, editing and journalism.

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