Here's the world's newest VR/AR headset accessing the longest-running metaverse platform: That's right, a playable version of Second Life in Apple Vision Pro!
This comes courtesy of Brian Aviator, who's in the closed Alpha testing group for Second Life's upcoming iOS app, and got it to run in his new Vision Pro. (Direction on doing that yourself below.)
And yes, it's playable:
"Using the iPad virtual controls through touch/eye controls were not as smooth as on the iPad itself," Brian Aviator allows, "but it worked well enough to get around and look around without issue."
Brian tells me he'd like a version of Second Life optimized for Vision Pro:
"I would certainly use it, particularly if it offered a full immersion mode as an option to take advantage of the spatial aspects of the device. Otherwise as a windowed application I see the use case to be similar to my use case on my iPad or iPhone — checking in to IM someone, or to respond to people or issues in one of my museums/educational spaces in Second Life." (Brian owns and manages three history museums in the virtual world.)
Expect to see more like this in the future: While Rec Room is expected to launch an official, optimized Vision Pro app, there are several existing virtual world iPad apps that can also run in Vision Pro. (Including Rec Room for iOS, as reader Trilo Byte notes.)
More screenshots courtesy Brian after the break. As you'll notice, the Second Life images have a unique look due to the Vision Pro:
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