First Experience with VR

Before beginning to choose DES241 mixed realities course, I decided to try out the VR games provided in the Design studio.

Experiment:

My first take was The Playroom VR where there were a variety of mini-games to try out with adorable robots as characters.

Source: https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps4/the_playroom_vr

One of the minigames I played was called Robots Rescue, where the player along with a robot companion goes through an adventure through different terrains and platforms and save many robots as possible from the villains.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQAtOz1iBd0

The short gif of the playthrough

Source: https://gfycat.com/flimsyweakbonobo-vr-platformer-robot-rescue-japan-studio

Me playing Robots Rescue

The second videogame I experimented was Beat Saber.

This game is where the player holds two handheld controllers and basically slice through upcoming boxes to the beat of the song being played.

Source: https://www.roadtovr.com/beat-saber-psvr-review-move-and-groove-slice-and-dice/

The short gif of the playthrough

Source: Google search

Discussion:

Since it was my very first VR game it was very interesting where you could change your point of view when you turn around which makes the player more immersed in the game. The weakness to VR headset, however, would be that it makes the player easily feel light-headed whilst playing the game.

After doing a simple search, I found that from 40% to 70% of people feel nauseated in Virtual Reality. The article that I found that discusses this VR-related motion sickness to be caused from the problem with the hardware/software of the game, therefore, the programmers of the game are responsible to make the hardware "less sick" (Kim, 2019).

Reference:

Kim, M. (2019, August 26). Why you feel motion sickness during virtual reality. ABC news. https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/feel-motion-sickness-virtual-reality/story?id=65153805

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