Racing fanatics who own Apple Vision Pro headsets can now enjoy a high-quality, mixed reality racing simulation experience, thanks to iRacing Connect, available starting Tuesday, provided that they own all other required hardware.
Of course, we already iRacing was coming to Apple Vision Pro, as Eddy Cue, Apple's Services chief, already said as much in April. However, starting Tuesday, May 12, iRacing Connect is available for free in the App Store.
The experience blends a user's racing rig with a virtual cockpit and aligns the physical steering wheel with the in-game one. It does this via technical integration of CloudXR.
According to an iRacing press release, physics calculations and high-fidelity graphic rendering are performed on PCs equipped with NVIDIA's RTX GPU. Frames are encoded and shared wirelessly over Wi-Fi to iRacing Connect on visionOS.
"We're thrilled to have worked with Apple and NVIDIA to bring iRacing to Apple Vision Pro," said iRacing president Tony Gardner.
"With the ultra-high-resolution capabilities of Apple Vision Pro and the power of NVIDIA's RTX GPU, this new spatial experience puts our users in the driver's seat with a level of immersion and fidelity never before seen in sim racing."
Those who wish to try out iRacing will need an Apple Vision Pro running visionOS 26.4, a PC with an Nvidia graphics card model 4070Ti+ or 5070Ti+ running driver version 580+, and a Wi-Fi 6+ enabled router capable of over 1000Mbps on the 5Ghz band.
