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X-Plane & iRacing Apple Vision Pro PC VR Streaming Clients Launched

3 June - Syndicated News | 0 Comments

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X-Plane 12 and iRacing are now officially playable in VR on Apple Vision Pro, streamed from your PC, with your physical accessories blended in using camera passthrough.

The official Vision Pro support for the two PC VR simulators leverages the OS-level foveated streaming feature Apple {LINK REMOVED}added to visionOS 26.4, a feature that Nvidia's CloudXR SDK leverages. Foveated streaming leverages eye tracking to maximize visual quality in the region of the display you're currently looking at.

To be clear, while the name CloudXR implies the PC is in the cloud, and this is Nvidia's primary focus for the technology, in the case of X-Plane 12 and iRacing, the visionOS client apps connect to your local gaming PC as the rendering source.

When the visionOS streaming clients for X-Plane 12 and iRacing were announced in March, it was thought that their major advantage over existing tools that let you stream PC VR content to Apple Vision Pro, primarily {LINK REMOVED}ALVR, would be the foveated streaming.

Since then, however, we've seen multiple tools released that enable this for your entire PC VR library, with the free and open-source {LINK REMOVED}Clear XR supporting OpenXR titles and $15 {LINK REMOVED}KRVR now supporting SteamVR content too.

Still, there are some advantages to the dedicated streaming clients for X-Plane and iRacing.

Both offer a simplified launch process, directly connecting to the simulator software on your PC with essentially no friction.

iRacing's client also automatically tracks your physical racing wheel and segments it out with passthrough, leveraging Apple's ARKit SDK. Meanwhile, the X-Plane client lets you manually mark out a passthrough cutout, as you can with {LINK REMOVED}KRVR.

You can find {LINK REMOVED}X-Plane Streaming Link and {LINK REMOVED}iRacing Connect on the visionOS App Store. Both apps are free, though you'll need to own the sims on your PC to connect to them.

The tradeoff of using Nvidia's CloudXR SDK is that every foveated streaming solution so far exclusively supports Nvidia's Ada and Blackwell GPU architectures, meaning RTX 40-series and 50-series graphics cards, and this is the case for X-Plane and iRacing too.

Valve Released A (Flatscreen) 4K Steam Link visionOS App

2 June - Syndicated News | 0 Comments

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Valve released a native visionOS client for the flatscreen version of Steam Link, with 4K 120FPS support, replacing the need to use the iPad app on Apple Vision Pro.

Since the launch of the original Vision Pro, the iPad version of Steam Link has been available on visionOS through the App Store. While this allowed for easily playing your flatscreen Steam library in the headset, it limited you to having a window with the 4:3 aspect ratio of an iPad, yet streaming the wider aspect ratio of your PC, leading to black bars on the top and bottom of the window – something entirely unnecessary in XR.

The iPad app also limited the window's resolution to that of an iPad, around 2732×1537 for 16:9 content.

With the visionOS app, released on the App Store a few weeks ago, the Steam Link window supports up to 4K streaming resolution, dynamically matches the aspect ratio of the PC you're streaming from, and lets you adjust the curvature of the window to your liking.

As well as supporting gamepad or mouse & keyboard navigation in the Steam Big Picture interface, the new app lets you use the gaze-and-pinch interaction system of Vision Pro to launch games, looking at an entry in your Steam library with your eyes to select it and pinching your thumb to your index finger to launch it.

Valve also says the native visionOS client "improves network performance" compared to the iPad app.

Testing the app out on Vision Pro, I found the 4K quality to be a massive improvement over the iPad app, and the latency feels lower too. The gaze integration, however, awkwardly snaps a mouse-like cursor between library items, so I disabled that and stuck to navigating with a connected Bluetooth gamepad.

No VR Support

The glaring omission, of course, is PC VR support. While Steam Link on Meta Quest, Pico, and Vive Focus Vision headsets lets you play your SteamVR games, the visionOS client is entirely limited to flatscreen content.

There seem to be two distinct versions of "Steam Link", one for flatscreen devices and the other for VR headsets, and Apple Vision Pro's client is very much so a variant of the former. It seems similar to the tvOS version, with the above-noted XR additions.

Third-party developers have addressed the demand for PC VR streaming on Apple Vision Pro, though. The open-source PC VR streaming tool {LINK REMOVED} has been available on the App Store since a few months after the M2 Vision Pro launched, and recently {LINK REMOVED} and {LINK REMOVED} have launched with support for the foveated streaming feature introduced in visionOS 26.4.

X-Plane and iRacing also recently launched their own dedicated visionOS clients for their PC VR simulators, also leveraging Nvidia's CloudXR, offering seamless automatic connection as well as automatic alignment and passthrough cutout of your physical peripherals, your HOTAS or racing wheel setup.

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redscotina

26 Mar, 2021 @ 4:05am

Check out space-shooter game - Galactic Rangers VR !

newyearcake

6 Dec, 2017 @ 12:57am

Hello! This is indie VR Game studio based in China, our game COMBAT INSTINCT is available on steam in early access. We are looking for some VR game lovers to test our game and give some feedbacks.

If you like to write a review for our game, just add me and i will give you a free steam key!

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DarVR

1 Sep, 2017 @ 5:21am

Hello everyone! We will present a steam key for a friend to each of the first 100 users. After youve bought the game, write at the topic ( http://steamcommunity.com/app/632840/discussions/0/1474221865183455357/ ) and well send you a steam key. http://store.steampowered.com/app/632840/CYBER_VR/

A Dead Man Walking

26 Jul, 2017 @ 11:51pm

The best game I play is not on your list - Smashbox Arena. Well worth the price and very fun. Easy to learn and yet you will always need to improve your skills to be competitive