Thomas Van Bouwel is in search of individuals so as to add Laser Dance to their wishlist on Quest 3.
To make the case, Van Bouwel and publishing accomplice Creature introduced a one-of-a-kind teaser to the UploadVR Summer season Showcase. A single unusually secure combined 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 combined 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 combined actuality gameplay at excessive ranges of element. This is the seize rig:
We wrote about an early demo version of the game in March and located it a standout instance of simply how unbelievable and totally different combined actuality gaming goes to be. Van Bouwel’s design, nonetheless, 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 techniques map out a sequence of laser-based impediment programs. The developer faces difficult conditions to navigate round physique and hand monitoring in addition to room-mapped recreation design, with gamers discovering edge instances for him to design round as they reveal surprising rooms shapes or shocking methods to navigate by 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 store reveals assist for the trouble as properly being the “finest strategy to discover out when the sport truly releases.”