Strings found in the developer beta of visionOS suggest that Vision Pro will require entering a “Travel Mode” to operate on an airplane. This mode requires the user to remain stationary, disables the realtime digital persona representation, and disables ‘some awareness features.’

The text strings also include a message warning that the current fit could reduce gaze accuracy, though it is unclear if this is related at all to travel mode or simply poor headset fit.

Personally, I’m curious if travel mode will increase battery life by any significant amount. With the 2 hour battery life cutting things close when watching a movie, extending that runtime to 3 hours or so would be excellent. It will remain to be seen how much Vision Pro sacrifices in travel mode, and how this affects the experience.

Apple has released their visionOS SDK allowing developers to begin creating experiences for Vision Pro. Apple also promises that next month it will make Unity app porting tools available to developers, allowing them to more easily transition existing VR experiences to Apple’s platform.

Caveman Studios, the devs behind one of VR's most popular shooters, Contractors, have announced a spinoff project titled 'Contractors Showdown.'

Set to release in 2024, Contractors Showdown is a battle royale taking place on a 4km x 4km map, releasing on "multiple platforms." It will support cross-platform matchmaking, and introduce new features such as a tactical PDA, 'call-in support,' and customizable weapons to name a few. The teaser trailer briefly shows the game's map, which appears to have a heavy focus on roads; possibly suggesting the addition of player controlled vehicles.

How’s everyone’s experience been going with the AirPods Beta firmware? Any glitches you’ve noticed? Thoughts on Adaptive mode?

I’ll start off: I straight up don’t understand the point of Adaptive transparency. To me it just feels like a worse performing transparency mode, and doesn’t actually block out any noises I’d want it to. My connection and battery life has been good on the beta though, with pretty much only one major bug I’ve noticed. For a couple of days, one of the AirPods at a time would stop reporting its charge percentage to any devices until I put it in the case for 5 minutes. I’ve reported the bug, but also haven’t seen it again all week.

What about you folks?

Curious to hear others' thoughts. Obviously we're more likely to disagree here and find value in the product, but were there any criticisms you found accurate? Is this this device 'for you,' or are you just curious about it?

Pavlov has received its long awaited Update 29, which introduces PSVR2 cross-platform lobbies, and switches over to Unreal Engine 5 and OpenXR. Previous mods are unfortunately bjorked, but a new mod browser has been added to replace Steam Workshop.

Users running eye-tracking hardware compatible with OpenXR toolkit should now able to enable eye-tracked foveated rendering as well; I can confirm it is working on my Quest Pro.

If it's been a while since you've played Pavlov, consider giving it a shot! The increased player count from PSVR has been great, and it feels good to be back after mostly playing Contractors for several months.

Pavlov's recently released Update 29 migrates the game to UE5 and OpenXR. As a result, it is now compatible with OpenXR Toolkit's eye-tracked foveated rendering feature. I experienced some visual glitches at first when running it in 'Performance + Narrow' modes, but changing them to 'Quality + Wide' and relaunching the game fully resolved them, even while doing things like aiming with one eye closed. Some experimenting might yield more performance gains without resurfacing the glitches.

Instructions for OpenXR Toolkit are contained in the link above and more comprehensively written up than I could do, but if there's interest I may make a separate post explaining the process and what I've experienced in which apps, just to have some more useful information available here. Don't expect massive performance gains, but as I'm running QP at max resolution on a 2080ti, I'm happy to take what I can get lol.

Also, this update added cross play with PSVR so lobbies are significantly more active. If you haven't been playing for a while, now's a good time to give it another shot!

Edited for clarity and to add the PSVR community. If anyone would like me to add another VR comm to the list, just let me know!

Calling all VR enthusiasts, here are a couple of spaces for discussion!

Virtual Reality | https://lemmy.world/c/virtualreality

PSVR | https://lemmy.world/c/psvr

Meta Quest | https://lemmy.world/c/metaquest

Quest Pro | https://lemmy.world/c/questpro

Apple Vision | https://lemmy.world/c/applevision

Hope to see you around!