Marvel’s What If…? Vision Pro app is an awkward mix of video game and movie
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6N54H)
The Watcher is quite large. | Image: Disney Besides watching movies, there's not all that much to do with Apple's Vision Pro once you get over the novelty. That's why I was eager to try Disney and Marvel's new What If...? An Immersive Story experience / TV show / video game... thing that's available on May 30th. The companies promised a mixed reality show that would push the boundaries of technology." But what I experienced, while very pretty to look at, ended up feeling like an overlong, no-stakes video game tutorial - with no game to follow it.
You'll go through the Vision Pro-exclusive app either by standing in one spot in a virtual environment, watching things play out and participating when prompted to, or in passthrough, where you can move around while cell-shaded 3D AR...