I tried Void Racer Extreme on Quest, and well, I don’t think this kind of arcade racing games play well on VR.
With this, I don’t mean VR racing games have to be real life & simmy like Arsetto Corsa or Dirt Rally, they can be more arcade and more fictional affairs with grav bikes, etc, but even with fictional scifi vehicles, the feeling have to be there, fooling you in believing you are in a futuristic racing gravjet thingie in a real futuristic track. I’m thinking Redout as example of a game of this genre and with a decent feel in the controls of your ship, with slightly more nuance in how your use the yaw up/down in addition to left and right, unlike the super arcade Void Racer the movement and physics are so simple that you don’t feel immersed in a real world, scifi or not scifi.
I thought it was disappointing. Just ~8-10 trailers, some were known (Walking Dead 2) or very predictable (Moss 2). I thought they would have more to show at this point. It was the same as in 2021 showcase.
No GTA, Assasins Creed or Splinter Cell. No new games from the several studios Meta have, either.
I’m surprised more studios aren’t making VR versions of their old libraries. 2000-2010 FPS and cockpit games ought to run well on Quest 2s, and even platformers could be adapted fairly easily, like Sands of Time. Are the development costs to add VR functionality very high? Meta seems to be making fairly good headway on headset sales, and I would have thought RE4s reception ought to be enticing for others.
For a start, bringing a PC title to Quest 2 requires porting it to Android. That and the whole UI and interaction recreation thing means it is probably not that simple.
Alex Honnold documentary The Soloist is free to watch on Oculus TV now. I’ve only watched part 1, but it left me with trembling legs and sweaty palms. Good stuff.
I watched part 2 of The Soloist. Some terrifying “extreme walking”, more terrifying climbing. This film is just really well done. Gorgeous retrained filming and the spare sound design–just wind and Alex’s breathing–is really evocative.
The bundle is over but here’s a quick rundown of a few I tried, if it helps anyone.
Swarm - really love this. I thought it’d make me dizzy as hell but it doesn’t at all somehow. Really fun swinging around and blasting the ships.
Puzzling Places - I really like this but doesn’t come with a ton of puzzles (16 total I believe). Looks you can buy some more, in-app.
Traffic Jams - great little game. Reminds me of the Diner Dash, etc, time management games in a way. Little extras to figure out as you go, or learn about from the hint splash screens during loading.
Haven’t tried the others from my bundle yet but quite a few more to go!
Welp, got my first-ever bout of motion sickness today in VR. Was playing Sweet Surrender (amazing game by the way) and they have this zipwire thing where you grab a handle and it moves you across the level. I made the mistake of looking to the side as it was moving me in a different direction. Oh no.
