The developer Riley Testut unveiled on Mastodon (link in source) a screenshot of his “museum of emulation”: a virtual place animated… by the development kit of the Apple Vision Pro.
Are you a fan of retro gaming? Imagine a virtual place bringing together in one place the emulations of your favorite games. This is what developer Riley Testut wanted to do with what he calls his “emulation museum”, where NES, SNES and Super Nintendo emulations of some of his favorite titles are grouped together, including Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario World. A virtual museum developed using the SDK (Software Development Kit) of the Apple Vision Pro, the mixed reality headset announced by Apple at the last WWDC.
An intriguing project
As reported The Verge, Riley Testut is not at his first attempt. The interested party is notably known for having created the Delta emulator, but also for having given birth to the AltStore, an alternative iOS App Store allowing the sideloader of third-party applications on non-jailbroken iOS devices.
The latter can indeed be installed on iPhone or iPad by using the developer mode of your device and using the AltServer application, available on macOS and Windows. If you want to try it, all the instructions are accessible at this address.
But probably in vain
However, with its emulation museum, the developer seems to be trying his hand at utopia. There is indeed little chance that an Apple Visio Pro can make it work, at least in the short term, software openness not necessarily being the strong point of Apple and its products… a fortiori when this is a brand new device that is supposed to wear the brand’s colors for the next few years.
To make such a project work on an Apple Vision Pro, there is no doubt that it would be necessary to jailbreak the device beforehand. An operation that requires exploiting a flaw in the operating system and which could permanently compromise the target device. Who would want to risk it on a product advertised at a starting price of $3,499? Right now, probably not many people.
Sources: The Verge, Mastodon
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