One of the hundreds of great touches I love about Grand Theft Auto V is the way that it uses in-game smartphones as menus for added realism — giving players the opportunity of sending and receiving messages, taking photos, and managing their contacts in a way that feels real-world authentic.
With the arrival of GTA V on PC, some smart iPhone-using modders have taken this as the basis for a nifty Xcode tweak, which allows the user to control the in-game phone via a real iPhone app.
Check out the video below.
The mod was created by Reddit user planetleak. “[I’ve] recreated the whole in-game phone app with Xcode, [and] added some buttons and gesture control for the menus,” planetleak writes. In turn, these buttons then send a URL to an Arduino websever, which then sends the inputs to the game by running a keybinding macro.
The mod isn’t finished yet, and can’t be downloaded, but it’s a pretty cool way of making the game even more immersive than it already is — although I’m sure some players will dismiss it as unpractical.
This isn’t the first time GTA has explored the world of apps. Prior to the game’s launch in 2013, Rockstar launched the companion iFruit iOS app, letting players customize vehicles while also train and play with their new canine sidekick Chop.
Source: Reddit
