SHOCKWAVE XR — Anti-Grav Racing in Your Room · Apple Vision Pro · Magic Leap 2 · Android XR

// What is SHOCKWAVE XR

The race is in the room

SHOCKWAVE XR is the same game as SHOCKWAVE for the Vectrex, the same code, the same circuits, rebuilt for mixed reality headsets. You still see your room. The race happens in it.

A Track in Your Room

The circuit hangs in the space around you. Lean in, look down the straight, watch the pack go past.

Phosphor Lines

Every line has a bright core and a soft halo, the way a vector monitor draws. Team colours for every ship.

Shock Rings & Streaks

Exhaust, trails, sparks and shock rings, and speed streaks rushing past in real metres around you.

An Arcade Board

Finish, enter your three letters, see where you stand. Ten rows, kept even when the power goes off.

Music on Every Lap

Its own soundtrack for the menu and the races, timed to the start lights.

One Game, Every Headset

Apple Vision Pro, Magic Leap 2 and Android XR run the same game and look the same. Meta VR Glasses are next.

// Headsets

Where it runs

Apple Vision ProNative on visionOS with its own Metal renderer, the same look as on Magic Leap 2.

Magic Leap 2The first XR version. Steered with the Magic Leap 2 controller.

Android XRBuilt on the Magic Leap 2 version, running through OpenXR.

Meta VR GlassesPlanned for Meta's new lightweight VR glasses, announced at Meta Connect 2026.

// Controls

Fly it with your wrist

Apple Vision Pro · Android XR · Meta VR Glasses

Left hand seen from behind, closed to a fist, with speed lines beside it — Left · Thrust

Right hand seen from behind, closed to a fist, with a ring arrow round the wrist showing the roll — Right · Steer

No controller at all: make a fist with your left hand to thrust, and roll your right hand to steer.

Left fistThrust. Make a fist to go. Right rollSteering. Roll your right hand left or right.

Magic Leap 2

The Magic Leap controller: touchpad on top, bumper and trigger lit at the back

On Magic Leap 2 the controller is the ship: roll it to steer, squeeze to go.

TriggerThe throttle, analogue: half a pull is half the power. RollSteering. Tilt the controller left or right, straight ahead is where your wrist is. BumperAir brakes. MenuRecentre the track.

Magic Leap 2Level 1 previewBeta

Have a Magic Leap 2? Race the first level in your room. The zip has the app, the game data and the music, plus an installer for macOS and Windows. You need the headset in developer mode and adb; the README says how.

Download for Magic Leap 2 (ZIP, 37 MB) → Developer Preview Build. Beta, so expect rough edges.