Yesterday was mainly in VRChat, hanging out with friends. I was in this basic world, but as basic as it was, it’s also a VR paradise.
It’s a sandbox’ish world, with Unity cubes and Unity spheres, with several platforms clearly made in Blender. But that’s not all. It has these silly gloves for two VR players.
Once grabbing them, you can control them. There, the world turns into your personal sandbox (as a giant). You can also fuck with other players who don’t have these hands (if they have hand colliders enabled)!
Currently, you can pick a player up by scooping them up with your big hands. There you can play games such as keeping them from hitting the floor.. or simply annoying the fuck out of them (which is far more hilarious).
I had WAY… way too much fun with this!! I absolutely LOVE this concept! VR RULES!!
And the Unity blocks and spheres? You can also hold these in your hands. One was able to figure out how to actually grab them, but wouldn’t show or tell me how.
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After that, the rest was hanging out with friends in laggy (in VR) worlds.. blah ‘de blah. If you can’t tell, I’m starting to get tired of this being the only VR game I have, that uses the motion controllers. I want to play something different, but sadly I won’t have any cash ’till next month.
But I found a ‘game’ (more like a tech demo) that’s free (and was once exclusively for the HTC Vive(but has been patched to work with the Oculus, and WMR)), and I seem to remember Dan playing it back in the day. It’s called The Lab; a Portal-themed thing actually created by VALVe (featuring those small 2D people) where you’re the test subject of this unique device, that you can shove into your face (literally), and it’ll take you to a mini-game that’s connected to the place. There are several of these.
Playing it, clearly it’s meant for the VR user to be standing up (and that you can rotate 360*), as there’s no option to spin yourself around.
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Had a lot of fun with it. My favorite mini-game (so far), is this ‘defend your ship’
game (that reminds me of Dan’s first VR game). But instead of yourself being the thing they shoot at, it’s a ship in your hand (that you can choose to either be in your left or right hand at the start). And holy FUCK does it get INTENSE sometimes!! I can see the bullets and missiles heading right for me! IT IS SO WILD!! 😀
God.. DAMN! VR is awesome (if I haven’t said that enough already).
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I also played this archery game, that I definitely remember Dan playing it. It starts out as shooting things. If you hit the little guy with the red flag, it starts the gamemode, where you have to defend your castle gate against invaders.
The bow uses realistic physics, so you have to aim high to defeat them. I sadly didn’t do so well (possibly because I was in a sitting position all of this time.. again, it expects you to be standing up).
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One other mini-game I played.. that I quickly got out of because it became so intense that I had enough, was this odd little.. horror world? Starts off as you showing up. Then about 30 seconds later, this guy comes into this shop and gives you some kind of Mage light that you can hold in your hand.
Here, you use it to fend off enemies that occasionally pop up. What scared the shit out of me, was hearing shit that sounded like it was on the left of me (but seeing nothing). Oh geeze, I don’t do well with this level of immersion. Too freakin’ real for my tastes. lol
Especially this demonic jack in the box infront of me.. fuck.
I’ll definitely be going back to this tomorrow, as well as trying to find more free VR games (that are cool) for me to try out.