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Victoria VR claims to be bringing a photo-realistic metaverse VR sport to the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional by the tip of June. Nevertheless…
Apple’s going to need a reduce of all in-game transactions. Within the brief time period, the one means round this is able to be to launch within the EU, which has just lately compelled Apple to drop its ‘we get a 30% reduce of all app income’ rule. Drawback is, the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional received’t be obtainable in Europe till the tip of 2024)
We hope this can be launched in June, however we’re not holding out breath.
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When our workforce author, Caite, stated she might get us all Tremendous Bowl tickets as a result of her “cousin works for the 49ers” — she was speaking an enormous sport.
(Seems he works the concession stand on the 76ers enviornment. Unsuitable workforce, unsuitable sport, unsuitable job title).
When Victoria VR claims to be bringing a photo-realistic metaverse VR sport to the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional by the tip of June?
We really feel like we’re being promised Tremendous Bowl tickets once more.
(We actually hope we’re unsuitable although).
The essential gist of the sport is that this:
‘Victoria’ is an island metropolis with a number of photo-realistic environments (suppose: suburbs, metropolis, woodlands, jungle, seaside — feels very GTA tbh).
It has its personal cryptocurrency (the ‘VR token’), which gamers can spend on in-game gadgets, leisure, and land.
There’s a variety of quests, challenges, and battles to discover.
Which sounds superior, when the competitors seems/seems like this. That stated…
Right here’s why we’re not getting our hopes up simply but (at the very least for a mid-year launch):
Apple’s going to need a reduce of all in-game transactions, which implies needing to combine Apple Pay — which doesn’t help crypto.
Within the brief time period, the one means round this is able to be to launch within the EU, which has just lately compelled Apple to drop its ‘we get a 30% reduce of all app income’ rule.
(Solely downside is, the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional received’t be obtainable in Europe till the tip of 2024).
We’ve been burnt by guarantees of ‘groundbreaking graphics’ and ‘imminent releases’ by gaming studios up to now, so we now have a strict “we’ll imagine it once we see it” coverage.
Fingers/toes/eyes crossed this isn’t vaporware.
