Can Gaming Save the Apple Vision Pro?

Patent could suggest Apple may be ready to take VR gaming more seriously on the Apple Vision Pro .

While gaming does have a presence on the headset, the headset's use of eye and hand tracking for users to interact with the current visionOS means many games on the platform emphasize the mixed and augmented reality approaches of the hardware.

Patent doesn't appear to show any buttons, triggers, or thumbsticks on the handheld input device.

Some game creators are happy without controllers on Apple Vision Pro though, including Andrew Eiche , CEO of developer Owlchemy Labs .

House of Da Vinci VR developer Blue Brain Games isn't developing for Apple 's Vision Pro in its native Slovakia .

Eiche says there is a learning curve in getting game development engines to play nice with Apple 's systems.

Microsoft launched its own mixed reality headset HoloLens in 2016 , and its successor HoloLens 2 in 2019 .

Both were priced comparably to what Apple Vision Pro is now, and similarly eschewed gaming in favor of a productivity focus.

Extending a hand to gamers could be one of the few options Apple has to expand its install base.