GDC 2025 Session Viewer

Mixed Reality is a step function for XR devices - a more accessible, human centric UX. Both Apple and Meta are investing heavily in these platforms, and this represents the opportunity to build new types of games - and reach new audiences - that VR hasn't tapped. This panel will replicate the real world dynamics of a product owner tasking multiple disciplines - with their biases - to tackle the sorts of challenges whispered at companies like Meta, Magic Leap and EA.s Watch what sorts of design paradigms can be used and advocated in the face of counterpoints - and could thrive from console, PC, mobile; gain insight into the sorts of hypotheses that were explored from the people who worked them inside AR product organizations,and teams actually building MR content. VR has its own lessons - what sorting of things like locomotion solutions can we make now?

Takeaway

Attendees will gain insight into how actual teams work: different disciplines rely on their domain knowledge and prior experience to define – or avoid – areas to explore, who their new audiences might be; Informed hypotheses on balancing tried-and-true VR and 2D game mechanics against risky, unproven, novel MR ideas (and platform limitations) will be shared and debated with insight from what MR developers are thinking about and building now.

Intended Audience

Game designers, producers/product owners, VR studio heads, discipline leads, software engineers interested in MR API support from platforms, mobile AR game developers.