Eggscape is a mixed reality, table top platformer game similar to Lucky’s Tale, but since it’s mixed reality then there’s a lot more of moving your body through space as a control dynamic. I previously got the whole backstory about Eggscape from director German Heller at Venice Immersive, where it picked up a third place price. Now that the Meta Quest Pro has been released, they’ve ported it to take full advantage of the color passthrough, which I have to admit has been the most immersive and compelling implementation of mixed reality that I’ve seen yet. It was so incredibly immersive to see how they utilized their physical installation as a context grounded in physical reality in order to overlay and alchemically transmute this physical installation waypoints into an entire dynamic playground for these cute and tiny little egg characters. I had many moments of experiencing the VR giggles where the piece is melding elements of the physical reality into this magical alternative domain of existence that starts to blend together in a way that feels completely plausible.

There were moments where my little egg character was floating in the air with a balloon that my mind completely bought into that I was somehow controlling it’s movement as it were a remote controlled balloon-like drone object. It’s these glimmers of believing the alchemical blending of digital and physical reality where my mind seamlessly integrates the different domains into a coherent and plausible reality that makes me realize the transformative power of mixed reality as companies like Meta, Apple, Samsung, Google, and Qualcomm are all working towards this vision of bringing the next paradigm of computing out of our hands and onto our face where we will have a magical lens that allows us to blend the digital and physical realms through our visual, auditory, haptic perceptual inputs.