With its new Retrofit device, Holoride promises a VR amusement park in the back of any car. But its ability to fight nausea may vary.
See our complete coverage of CES 2023 here VR may still be struggling to find its “killer app,” but let no one claim that developers haven’t gotten pretty clever in trying. Holoride promises to turn the back seat of your car into an amusement park with VR synced to the motion of the car. After emerging in 2019 as an offshoot of Audi, the company arrived at CES 2023 with one major advancement: it now works in any car.
While the Retrofit puck, which slightly resembles an Amazon Echo Dot, admittedly looks a bit out of place in a 1967 Fleetwood, there is no compatibility issue: it only needs a windshield to grab onto with its suction cup. You could use it in a Model T, if you were so inclined. Even the lack of a USB port in the car isn’t a problem, since the Retrofit puck comes with an internal battery that can run it for 14 hours.
Look, this game isn’t going to win any awards. But it did let me get my bearings and ease my nerves about car sickness. Things started well. In Planet Ride, the VR environment around me slid by smoothly in sync with the car, and my brain did not protest. Even turns translated smoothly to the in-game environment. It helps that the 4,805-pound Fleetwood doesn’t do anything in a hurry, and the driver was doing his best to drive like a train conductor.
After a breather, things went slightly better in Cloudbreakers, a mech-fighting title with a nice clear view of the moving ground – but more controls than I could reasonably get a handle on as I struggled to calm my stomach.
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