Owlchemy Labs' new game Hyper Visor will be a launch title for HTC's XREAL Aura headset.
As the virtual reality market continues to struggle against economic headwinds, pioneering VR studio Owlchemy Labs has announced it's jumping into the world of extended reality (XR) games with its new title Hyper Visor. The game, which Owlchemy describes as "an original XR arcade blaster" will debut on the Google Play Store at a $1.99 pricepoint, timed as a launch title for HTC's XREAL Aura headset.
In Hyper Visor, players use their hands and a "mysterious pair of living shades" (a common nickname for sunglasses) to clear eight levels that evoke different traditional gameplay genres such as rhythm games and side-scrolling shooters.
Of course, "headset" isn't quite the right word to describe the XREAL Aura—the device is really a pair of high-tech sunglasses that HTC calls "spatial computing eyeware." It operates via a wired connection to the user's Android phone. And "XR" isn't necessarily the phrase developers would use to describe this type of game. Games played through camera lenses to interact with objects that appear to exist in the real world have traditionally been described as augmented reality (AR) games. XR, referring to "extended reality," has been used as an umbrella term for VR and AR software, as well as experiences that bridge the two mediums.
Verbiage aside, the Google-owned game studio (which already self-identified as an "XR game studio") appears to be leaning into both the "shades" and "XR" phrasing to describe its new endeavor.
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