The Meta Quest 3 is here and with it a whole range of mixed reality apps. Find out what you can try right now.
If you pre-ordered Meta Quest 3 in time, you should have had it in your hands a few days ago. With the improved color pass-through, this is the first time a Quest headset – apart from Quest Pro – can deliver a high-quality mixed reality experience.
However, with the Quest Store now full to bursting, finding mixed reality content is not so easy. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best current (and upcoming) mixed reality content for the new VR/AR headset.
Mixed Reality games for Meta Quest 3
BAM is a multiplayer Mixed Reality game where you control miniature robots in a tabletop arena. You can scale them to any size and place them in your physical environment. In the tabletop arenas, you can have boxing matches, use jetpacks to fight in the air, or unlock special powers with power-ups.
Playing as Sci-Fi Athletes, you fire glowing projectiles at each other in one-on-one duels, dodging and weaving in slow motion. The free-to-play multiplayer VR game relies entirely on body control and is therefore physically demanding.
One-on-one fantasy swordplay features different warriors and martial arts styles. Click here for the VR hands-on of Broken Edge.
Cubism is a three-dimensional hand tracking puzzle game where you solve building block puzzles. You grab different colored 3D puzzle pieces and place them into a given shape.
The pen-and-paper style VR role-playing game Demeo (review) got a free mixed reality update for the launch of the Quest Pro, which is also playable on the Quest 3. You place a virtual board on a real surface and see an image of your real surroundings all around you.
The Mixed Reality update for Espire 2: Stealth Operatives brings the stealth action of the VR game to your own four walls.
I Expect You To Die is a charming escape room series in a secret agent setting. The free AR mini-mission lets you experience an escape scenario in your own home.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a VR classic that first appeared on PSVR 1. In the party game, you must defuse a ticking time bomb inside the VR headset while your teammates give instructions without seeing the bomb.
Synth Riders sends you into a sci-fi world where you must smash approaching bullets and avoid obstacles to the rhythm of driving synthwave and electro songs. The Mixed Reality mode now brings parts of this world into your real-world environment. The update is free for Meta Quest 2, Quest Pro and Quest 3.
Mixed Reality for Quest 3: Fitness and Wellness
Les Mills Bodycombat is a martial arts-based VR fitness app. With the Mixed Reality update, you can now work out in your own living room via passthrough.
Oh Shape is a rhythm game where you have to use your whole body to quickly get into certain poses, avoid obstacles or box on objects.
Mixed Reality for Quest 3: Productivity and Collaboration
The popular streaming app that lets you enjoy PC content on a mobile VR headset has received a launch day update for use with Meta Quest 3.
Mixed Reality for Quest 3: Learning and creative apps
With Figmin XR, there are few limits to your creativity. This fun, creative application lets you augment your real-world environment with a variety of digital content.
PianoVision offers virtual piano lessons that use mixed reality and hand tracking and allow connections to MIDI keyboards.
This building app lets you get creative in Mixed Reality. You can build functional digital machines, racetracks, or vending machines from over 80 real-world components.
Vermillion is a virtual oil painting studio that lets you learn to paint and design without having to use real paints and tools.
In Wooorld, you can place detailed 3D maps of the entire planet with hundreds of 3D cities in your physical environment and explore them alone or with friends.
Upcoming mixed reality highlights
There are also many more mixed reality apps coming to the Quest Store in the coming weeks and months. Here are some apps and updates that have already been announced but have not yet been released.
Asgard’s Wrath 2 is an epic VR role-playing game that will immerse you in a fantasy world for many hours. You can choose from different heroes and companions and experience an extensive story. Asgard’s Wrath 2 will be released on December 15, and will feature a compact mixed reality mode where enemies from the game world will enter your physical environment through a portal.
Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord is coming to Playstation VR 2 and Meta Quest 3 on October 26, where you’ll use remote-controlled turrets and ghost decoys to hunt ghosts and solve puzzles. Although the VR game is designed for co-op play, it can also be played solo. In the MR spin-off of the VR game, virtual ghosts invade your home, and you must catch them again.
LEGO Bricktales by ClockStone and Thunderful is getting a VR implementation for Quest VR headsets and will be released on December 7. In it, you’ll travel through five themed biomes to help solve various challenges. In Mixed Reality mode, you’ll place worlds made of virtual LEGO bricks on your living room table.
In Stranger Things VR, you’ll experience the world of the series premiere through the eyes of Vecna, enter the thoughts and dreams of familiar series characters, and use telekinetic powers to exact revenge on Hawkins. In the Mixed Reality version, a portal to the Upside Down opens in the wall of your room. The VR game with MR mode is scheduled for release on November 30th.
Source: Mixed News
