Games and experiences with Color Passthrough

Games and experiences with Color Passthrough

Meta’s high-end standalone Quest Pro headset is arrives now to buyers with apps that add new mixed reality capabilities to its color cameras.

Here’s a list of some of the first to check out. If we are missing any apps on this list, please email [email protected] and let us know.

Some of the most interesting software available on Quest Pro can be experienced in mixed reality by highlighting the walls or furniture in your room. This process essentially makes the software space-aware, allowing you to use physical surfaces in interesting ways in conjunction with virtual content. At the time of writing, that means using an experimental feature called “room arrangement” and clearing out little things on the floor so you can move around more easily without tripping.

This feature is still under construction, so you may encounter some bugs.

I expect you to die: Home Sweet Home

Use Quest Pro to turn your room into a mixed reality escape room courtesy of veteran VR development studio Schell Games. I expect you to die: Home Sweet Home is available for free and requires a “huge guard” setup outside the walls of your room and an empty wall about six feet away.

Figmin XR

Figmin XR is one of the most interesting apps to use with full space awareness – you’ll be throwing objects around in no time and seeing them bouncing around believably. The developers behind the app even imported the open source Tilt Brush application and you can also paint with your hands in the open air.

Ark

Architecture focused app Ark lets you import the room layout layout and customize it as you see fit or add virtual objects.

The world out there

the world out there

The world out there is an experimental sample project from Meta meant to demonstrate some big ideas and it uses your room setup and even voice recognition for things like telling a cute little creature to run to you. You can also replace any wall you want with a colorful open meadow to the world beyond.

VR painting

VR painting includes some creative tools for a credible virtual painting studio, and when you’re done, you can hang the works on the wall.

ShapesXR

ShapesXR is a “remote team design and collaboration platform” that can be used to model and design ideas with its storyboard feature. It supports color transfer and the Touch Pro nibs for writing on surfaces. The app also supports Quest Pro’s facial and eye tracking features.

Gravity Sketch

Game development studios like the makers of Walkabout Mini Golf have started using the free app Gravity Sketch to plan their latest course designs together. A popular design and collaboration app, it uses color throughput on Quest Pro with the Touch Pro nib support making it possible to sketch on a physical surface. To access the passthrough, there is a virtual visor on your head that you can grab and remove to see the color passthrough.

Meta Horizon workrooms

workrooms 3 screens horizon meta

In many ways, Quest Pro seems to be made especially for this application that allows you to reuse your desk as a writing surface or whiteboard. The nibs on Quest Pro can be attached to the bottom of the Touch Pro controllers to make a more credible drawing tool. Workrooms is free to use in countries where it is supported.

Tripp VR

This meditation and mindfulness app allows you to relax and focus on your breathing and be present in the moment, allowing you to relax and unwind. Tripp recently added support for color transfer with room awareness on Quest Pro.

demo

demo is one of the best games on the quest platform and now you can play it in mixed reality on Quest Pro. You can enable mixed reality (called “AR mode”) in the main menu settings, after which you will be asked to set up your room (if you haven’t already). Once everything is set up, you can place the virtual game board wherever you want – even on a surface like a dining table or counter top – and roll the dice through your real-world environment.

Woorld

Woorld comes perhaps as close to Google Earth as we’ll get on Quest hardware – at least in the short term – and offers multiplayer, creative tools, and a fun minigame you can play with others where you’re dropped in a random location and have to figure out where to use clues in the area. It also has color throughput support on Quest Pro.

submerged

submerged is a free app that gives access to your PC in VR with support for multiple virtual screens and multiplayer so you can collaborate with others. It includes support for color throughput on Quest Pro.

Tribe XR

Tribe XR can teach you how to mix music and become a DJ with an uncomplicated tutorial that uses the concepts of rhythm games to teach you how to control a deck. On Quest Pro, you can use color throughput to place the deck in your real environment.

Arthur

Arthur fr

Arthur is another remote work and collaboration tool for Quest that allows you to meet, discuss and present with colleagues in VR. It now supports color passthrough on Quest Pro, which can be used to work in VR alongside a tracked keyboard and desk.

Resolve is a tool that allows multiple users to view building information modeling (BIM) files together and collaborate on the review process for large construction projects. It now supports mixed reality on Quest Pro so you can view models in your real environment or in situ.

Virtuoso

Virtuoso is a music making tool and sandbox allowing users to experiment with unique virtual instruments and simple looping software. A new update adds support for color pass-through on Quest Pro, allowing users to position and play the mixed reality instruments in their own environment.

Cubism

Cubism is a simple yet addictive puzzle game where you solve a 3D wireframe puzzle by finding the correct order and orientation of different blocks with different shapes. Not only does Cubism support hand tracking – a great way to play – but it now also supports full color passthrough mode on Quest Pro.

Enigmatic places

Puzzling Places is another great puzzle game that turns photogrammetric shots of real-life locations and buildings into immersive 3D puzzles that you can piece together piece by piece, with accompanying sounds to match the environment you’re building.

With color passing on Quest Pro you can now solve puzzles in your living room or anywhere you want.

gave

Nanome is a collaboration tool that allows one or more users to view molecular data and 3D models in VR. It now supports color pass-through on Quest Pro, allowing you to view the models in your real environment using mixed reality.

Vermilion

Vermillion is a painting app that simulates wet-on-wet oil painting on canvas, so you can follow tutorials in VR and paint to your heart’s content with a virtual easel, canvas, palette and brushes. With color transfer support on Quest Pro, you can now place all the elements of the app around your real environment and paint in situ.

These are the first apps to support color transfer and mixed reality on Quest Pro. Stay tuned for more apps to add support in the coming weeks.

Editor’s Note: Both Ian Hamilton and Harry Baker contributed to the article.