At the recent Meta Connect 2023 event, the tech world was introduced to the new immersive headset, the Meta Quest 3, which is billed as the beginning of a new era of mixed reality entertainment. As part of this unveiling, attendees got a sneak peek of a new mixed reality game featuring the iconic stop-motion animation duo Wallace & Gromit: Jamtastic!
The MR game tasks players with testing Wallace’s convoluted ‘jam to toast delivery system’ with an ever increasing variety of targets that take over their real-world environment … along with the mess they’ll end up making along the way! A short clip was shared during the event.
Atlas V and Wallace & Gromit studio Aardman have confirmed that they are actively developing this title for the upcoming Meta Quest 3 headset. Jamtastic! will be available for Quest 2, 3 and Pro headsets and included with the purchase of The Grand Getaway VR experience, which is set to be released at the end of the year.
About Jamtastic!
This mixed reality game brings audiences even closer to the VR experience, challenging them to stand-in as Wallaceʼs very own contraption tester while he is away on his Grand Getaway. Players will be given Wallace’s latest breakfast contraptions: a hand-controlled Jam Cannon and a torrent of target-firing toasters which all need putting through their paces.
Taking advantage of Meta Quest 3’s stereo color cameras feature, Jamtastic! takes place in the playerʼs real-world environment, quite literally bringing Wallace and Gromit into their living room and their world into the playerʼs own.
Jamtastic! is designed with replayability at its core, with players presented with more and more chaotic challenges as they progress, testing timing, accuracy and speed.
Wallace & Gromit in The Grand Getaway and Jamtastic! are a co-production between Academy Award-winning animation studio Aardman and the creatives behind VR sensations such as Spheres and Gloomy Eyes, Atlas V, in association with No Ghost (Madrid Noir) and Albyon (Monstrorama), and with the support of immersive distributor and publisher Astrea, the Meta Quest team, and, for Jamtastic!, the German producer Reynard Films (Biolum).
For more information, visit wallacegromitvr.com.
