Can Gaming Save the Apple Vision Pro?

Apple Vision Pro is not a virtual reality headset. Not officially, anyway—instead, Apple uses the term "spatial computing" to describe the device's core function. While it's capable of placing users in fully immersive virtual spaces, it focuses more on the passthrough experience, where external cameras let users see the world around them. Most notably, many of its apps and features are tailored to entertainment and productivity purposes, rather than prioritizing the VR gaming market as the likes of Meta's Quest 3 or Sony's dedicated PlayStation VR 2 do. But maybe that's where it's been going wrong all along. While gaming does have a presence on Apple Vision Pro, the headset's use of eye and hand tracking for users to interact with the current visionOS means many games on the platform emphasize the mixed and augmented reality approaches of the hardware instead. There are plenty of cozy puzzlers or board game recreations, where players can use their own hands to manipulate digital objec ... Read full article.