iRacing is now available on Apple Vision Pro. The sim launched on Apple’s mixed reality headset this month, pairing with NVIDIA’s CloudXR 6.0 streaming platform to give iRacers an experience unlike any VR setup that came before it.
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The setup works through streaming. Your Windows PC with an NVIDIA RTX GPU handles all the physics calculations and high-fidelity rendering, the same as it always has. The PC encodes those frames and streams them wirelessly over Wi-Fi to iRacing Connect running on visionOS. Your PC does the heavy lifting. Vision Pro delivers the view.
That view is something different from traditional VR. Because Vision Pro is a passthrough device rather than a sealed headset, it blends your physical cockpit with the virtual one. Your real steering wheel lines up with the in-game wheel. You can see your actual hands on it. Your rig is right there in front of you, and so is the car. It is the kind of mixed reality experience that sim racing hardware is well suited to benefit from.
iRacing uses foveated streaming to keep the sharpest rendering focused exactly where the driver is looking. Combined with Vision Pro’s display resolution, which is higher than most consumer VR headsets on the market, the result is what iRacing described as immersion and fidelity not seen before in sim racing.
The hardware cost is the catch. Apple Vision Pro retails at $3,499. For drivers who already own one, or are already considering it, iRacing support is fully live and ready to use.
