June 11, 2023

Summer Game Fest 2023, Apple Vision Pro

2 hours 5 minutes

Welcome to the Day One Patch Podcast, where we cover the week's gaming news, rumors, reports, and more. This week Ryan, Tim, Adriano, and Matt discussed the top stories of the week including the headliner - Summer Game Fest 2023. The boys also discussed Apple's new mixed reality (AR/VR) headset, Apple Vision Pro, to analyze its place in the world of productivity and/or gaming.

Summer Game Fest 2023 took place on June 9, 2023, showing off a bunch of games including:

Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth is the second part of the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy

Spider-Man 2 finally got a release date of October 20, 2023

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a side-scrolling Prince of Persia game in a cartoony art style

Mortal Kombat 1 is a sort of reboot of the first Mortal Kombat game

Sonic Superstars is a new sidescrolling Sonic game featuring up to four player co-op

Alan Wake 2 had a large amount of gameplay showed off

Like a Dragon: Gaiden - The Man Who Erased His Name from the series formerly named "Yakuza"

Star Trek Infinite is a Star Trek themed Paradox Entertainment strategy game (maybe Stellaris-like?)

John Carpenter's Toxic Commando showed off some crazy zombie combat fueled by guns and vehicles

The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria is a survival-crafting adventure game that puts you back into the mines of Moria

Path of Exile 2 is the eagerly anticipated sequel to the first game in the series, Path of Exile

Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 2 confirmed cooperative play

Remnant 2 is the sequel to Remnant from the Ashes, a game that is often called "Dark Souls with guns"

Immortals of Aveum is a first-person wizard combat game by Ascendant Studios and EA

IGN put together a comprehensive list of everything that was announced at the show.

At WWDC 2023, Apple unveiled the Apple Vision Pro, a mixed reality headset that is meant to introduce us to spacial computing. The device showed off its AR and VR capabilities with a mix of floating windows for messages, calls, and even games. It has the capability to bring the user into a fully immersive VR experience, with dynamic real-world passthrough when a person is trying to get the wearer's attention. This device seems to be taking on a different use case than what we've come to expect from Meta Quest, Valve Index, and HTC Vive - focusing on "day-to-day computing" over immersive VR gaming.

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