BlockVerse is a clone game of “Minecraft” developed for the Meta Quest headset. Its feature is that it supports mixed reality, not just virtual reality. The default mixed reality view presents part of the game world as a miniature model suspended in front of the player, but the game also supports a full-scale mixed reality mode.
To use the full-scale mixed reality mode, players will need a warehouse or flat outdoor space. It is best to turn on the developer mode at the same time to turn off the safety boundary function of the headset (normally only supports a maximum space of 15×15 meters).
YouTube star Brandon Ballinger (AwakenToast) tried this model with his Quest 3, showing us the huge and untapped potential of outdoor mixed reality gaming.
Ballinger started by digging a virtual hole in the physical ground and marveled at the “sense of depth” he felt when looking down. Throughout the video, he can be seen carefully avoiding falling into the virtual holes he dug, walking around them despite the fact that they don’t exist.
He went on to build a virtual house that stayed in place even as he moved around the large meadow, showing that the Quest 3’s positional tracking system had very little drift even at this scale.
When he added the ceiling to the house, it became clear how blurred the lines between virtual reality and mixed reality are. It feels truly amazing to see your only perspective of the real world through an empty doorway.
It is noticed that Quest 3 currently lacks the dynamic occlusion function (it is still in the experimental stage and cannot be used in applications). In the video, you can see that when Ballinger walks in front of the tree, the virtual items are still rendered in front of the tree. Even more incongruously, when he shows up with the kids at the end of the video, they’re supposed to be in his virtual house, but they’re only visible through the doorway, as if they’re half buried underground.
There may soon be a wave of outdoor mixed reality games where people can take the headsets to the park to play games and create creations. It seems that we are not far away from the “Pokemon GO moment” of mixed reality headsets.
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