{"id":371936,"date":"2026-04-09T22:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371936\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:07:09","slug":"project-hail-mary-is-getting-a-mixed-reality-game-for-quest-pico-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371936\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Project Hail Mary’ is Getting a Mixed Reality Game for Quest & Pico This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maze Theory, the XR studio behind Peaky Blinders: The King\u2019s Ransom and Doctor Who: The Edge of Time, announced it\u2019s working on a mixed reality game based on Andy Weir\u2019s novel and recent film,\u00a0Project Hail Mary (2026).<\/p>\n

Developed in partnership with Amazon MGM Studios, Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars is slated to feature an entirely new, original chapter developed in collaboration with Andy Weir specifically for the game.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy Maze Theory<\/p>\n

\u201cProject Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars goes somewhere completely new,\u201d the studios say. \u201cPlayer\u2019s step into the role of Ryland Grace at a pivotal, untold moment in the Hail Mary mission. The ship\u2019s systems are failing. Deep space grows increasingly uncertain.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a mixed reality game, Hail Mary \u201cbleeds into the player\u2019s physical environment,\u201d the studio says, noting\u00a0that players will diagnose problems, improvise fixes, and \u201cpush the limits of what science and engineering can do under pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy Maze Theory<\/p>\n

Of course, at the heart of the experience is Rocky, the alien intelligence whose partnership with Grace defines the film\u2019s action.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars, that bond isn\u2019t something you watch develop. You build it yourself, through cooperation, problem-solving, and evolving trust. It is, as Weir intended, a story about the first true friendship between species, and mixed reality makes that feel real in an entirely new way,\u201d the studio says.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Image courtesy Maze Theory<\/p>\n

Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary author calls it \u201cthe first step outside of what happens in the book and movie, something you can only experience in mixed reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

While\u00a0Project Hail Mary: Journey Among the Stars will launch on Quest and Pico headsets in late 2026, there\u2019s also mention of \u201cmajor mixed reality and VR platforms,\u201d suggesting that list may grow. The studios say we expect more details on gameplay, platforms, and preorders in the coming months.<\/p>\n

The studios included a short clip of mixed reality gameplay, seen below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maze Theory, the XR studio behind Peaky Blinders: The King\u2019s Ransom and Doctor Who: The Edge of Time,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[111,139,69,145,360,361,362],"class_list":{"0":"post-371936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-virtualreality","14":"tag-vr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}