A great shame, because conceptually Mirror's Edge + VR sounds a natural fit, but no dice (no pun intended) until VR's motion sickness issue is entirely eradicated.Įd Key and David Kanaga's escapist wunderkind isn't officially supported by Vorpx, and given it's not really 3D as we know it, I wasn't expecting great things. The city looks beautiful, and remarkably tangible as I clamber over roofs and along ledges, but Faith's rapid rolling, sliding and tumbling is exactly the kind of sudden movement that dedicated VR gaming consciously steers clear of. But the lack of a speedy framerate was a distantly secondary concern to how overwhelming nauseous I felt. In practice, my card (a borrowed AMD R9 Nano) struggled with it far more than it did Firewatch or BioShock. It's also quite a few years' old, so a modern GPU shouldn't be unduly taxed by trying to render the image twice at once. Striking colours and scale, all the better to tickle vertigo glands and make skylines pop rather than devolve into a mess of big-pixelled muddy detail.
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Here are a few cases studies, and with it thoughts on whether playing Full Fat Games this way is successful or worthwhile. In some cases it's not doing too much more than rendering them as a big wraparound screen, in others it's full on mega-scale, head-tracked 3D, almost as if it were made for VR in the first place. Basically, Vorpx retrofits standard games for VR. There are other applications like it, and there will be more yet to come, but this is the one I have used because a) its selection of supported games so far seemed decent b) I bought it in beta last year for my (now-sold) Oculus DK2 and was curious about how well it supported consumer hardware. It's a paid product, I'm afraid, but it supports both Oculus Rift and HTC Vive (though the latter only very recently, and not as robustly). But for superhumans such as I, capable of the unthinkable feat of remembering where the buttons on my keyboard are after 25 years of using one almost daily, the absence of 'proper' games is felt keenly. It's also preoccupied with accessibility to a certain extent - using a mouse and keyboard effectively blind is a tall order for a great many people. The VR games sub-industry, for entirely understandable health reasons, does not overly encourage long-form gaming, but by and large it's also still at the stage where it's focused more on visual wow than on best-possible-gaming. I fear I'm simply too pre-disposed to want 'traditional' games, whatever the hell that means - longer experiences with relatively complicated and precise controls and probably far too much story. I haven't got on well with most of the VR-specific titles I've tried to date. But what about non-VR games rendered after-the-fact in VR? Could this be the full-fat virtual reality gaming I'd imagined when these headsets were first announced?
virtual tourism to real or made-up places - when it comes to games-games I'm yet to get all that much out of it. Conceptually I love the tech, and I sporadically have a fine time with 'experiences' - i.e. I've got two VR headsets in my inappropriately small home, and I spend more time feeling guilty that I'm not using them than I do using them.
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