Studio Behind is Working on New Title Built Entirely Around AR - Road to VR

Thomas Van Bouwel, the creator down fashionable VR puzzle crippled Cubism (2020), says he’s moving connected a caller crippled for Quest built wholly astir passthrough AR.

Called Laser Dance, the Quest crippled aims to crook immoderate country of your location into a laser obstacle course—basically recreating the aged laser hallway trope you whitethorn admit from a ton of films, TV shows and video games implicit the years.

There’s nary connection connected merchandise dates yet, though advancement is looking good. Check retired a work-in-progress level of Laser Dance successful action:

Walking done a laser question 🏄#ar #vr #MetaQuest2 #madewithunity pic.twitter.com/PLQrAkE7Hv

— Thomas Van Bouwel 🔜 #PlayNYC (@tovanbo) September 3, 2022

Van Bouwel came up with the thought implicit the two-day Global Game Jam 2022 earlier this year, and has since fleshed retired the crippled to see parametrically-generated laser patterns based connected country size and layout, meaning the enactment should dynamically acceptable to your abstraction and service up a situation nary substance however large (or cluttered) your space.

Although the crippled has been shown moving with Quest 2’s monochrome passthrough, the indie dev is nary uncertainty positioning Laser Dance for merchandise connected Meta Quest Pro, which is susceptible of more realistic passthrough AR acknowledgment to its five outer sensors, offering a higher solution colour presumption with improved depth-detection.

We’re looking guardant to learning much astir Laser Dance, as Van Bouwel is fantabulous astatine creating deceptively elemental gameplay that truly makes you think—look nary further than Cubism, which has besides kept lock-step with passthrough and hand-tracking updates connected Quest since its archetypal motorboat successful 2020. If you privation to travel on with advancement connected Laser Dance, check retired the game’s authoritative Twitter.