Velan and Mattel unveil Hot Wheels: Rift Rally mixed reality racing game for iOS and PS
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Velan Studios and Mattel unveiled Hot Wheels: Rift Rally, a new mixed-reality racing experience coming to your living room.
You play the game by using a game controller or iPhone screen to control the car, and then you see the game via the screens of your Apple’s iOS device or Sony’s PlayStation consoles.
The game debuts on March 14 and I got a hands-on demo of it from the team at Velan Studios. It reminds me of the old toys-to-life games like Skylanders, which Velan’s founders worked on in a prior company, as well as the more recent Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit game that Velan worked on with Nintendo. And it lets you drive around your living room in a mixed-reality experience.
“We really felt like there was more to do,” with digital-physical gaming, said Dave Pokress, chief marketing officer at Velan Studios, in an interview with GamesBeat. “There was some unfinished business that we wanted to explore with this technology. We want to explore new fantasies. That’s where Hot Wheels: Rift Rally comes in. It’s a new fantasy about getting behind the wheel of your favorite Hot Wheels car.”
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Hot Wheels: Rift Rally has the quality of a triple-A racing game which you can view on an iPhone or a big screen for a PS4 or PS5. And Velan combined that with its patented RC mixed reality tech that lets you drive around a toy car with a big camera on it. That camera transports the video back to your console and it gets blended into 3D gaming
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