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Dear VGCharterz. Last weekend I was at a friend house and I brought my PSVR with PS4Pro for they to taste. The game was Driveclub VR which so far have presented the best immersion I have experienced.

Basically everyone liked the sensation of driving, and even though neither of then like racing games, the immersion itself made they happy.

The good part came when my friend's father tried it. He had zero experience with gaming so I started with Youtube 360º for him to get some experience. The Rollercoaster had him panicking during the first climb (he is terrified of rollercoaster), then we had to convince him to try again and put a dive on the australian coral reef. He was having a great time and laughing happily, his sons even started spraying water on his face and he commented "how fantastic is this, I can even feel the breeze".

So we decided to put him on the Driveclub. Since he didn't knew how to properly use the control he accelerated all the way through the first corner, and when crashing he dropped back laying flat like if he had turned upside down on the car. So we teached him the controls and he tried again, crashing once more and again laying flat... just on the third time he was able to race and have fun.

But we couldn't barely hold our grim.

 

So tell us what were your first experience with VR or one you have accompanied someone to their first.



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This. I had a good time.



Then I played PSVR Summer Lesson.

It was very short .



Haven't tried VR yet, I'm holding till next gen VR headsets when (hopefully) they are wireless, cause all those wires, I just can't man.

Also (hopefully) a better FOV cause VR by definition is supposed to emulate reality and in reality you see at approximately 200* angles and not the paltry 100* angles give or take that current headsets allow for.

And if next gen does not have all that then I'll wait for the gen after that. No hurry for me. One day I'll enjoy VR, when it reaches a decent portion of its potential.



My father in law almost fell of the couch trying to lean on the virtual desk in Wayward sky. The virtual tv display popping up made him fly backwards a few times. And my 5 year old was climbing on the armrests with the headset on to reach things in Job simulator.



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CrazyGamer2017 said:

Haven't tried VR yet, I'm holding till next gen VR headsets when (hopefully) they are wireless, cause all those wires, I just can't man.

Also (hopefully) a better FOV cause VR by definition is supposed to emulate reality and in reality you see at approximately 200* angles and not the paltry 100* angles give or take that current headsets allow for.

And if next gen does not have all that then I'll wait for the gen after that. No hurry for me. One day I'll enjoy VR, when it reaches a decent portion of its potential.

The immersion is quite good even with limitations, try it. It's worth



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

I love VR games that use the Move controllers playing Batman was unbelievable at first, Job simulator superhot aswell not really into games that need the dualshock like Resident Evil 7 it feels less immersive for me.



-Newcloud- said:
I love VR games that use the Move controllers playing Batman was unbelievable at first, Job simulator superhot aswell not really into games that need the dualshock like Resident Evil 7 it feels less immersive for me.

I liked batman. But Until Dawn is a lot better since it's more dinamics... and it assumes itself as an on-rail shooter. It really is on-rail



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

I played around with PSVR at a friend's house first. I thought it was okay, but nothing mind blowing. Nothing that I felt any "must have" urge to purchase for myself, or even rush back to my friend's house for more. I wasn't completely fascinated with VR until I got the Oculus Rift a couple of months later. My wife and I were instantly wowed just by the introductory tech demo "First Contact" and have been by several other VR games since (VR Sports Challenge, Everest VR, Wilson's Heart, Robo Recall, etc). I brought over the same friend and his wife who showed me their PSVR, and they were amazed as well. I've heard people say that the difference between the two isn't a big deal, but I disagree. My friend's wife, while playing the Rift even exclaimed that the difference was "night and day". While playing "Wilson's Heart", she literally jumped and reacted to several of the jump scares, which my friend says she never does with any other medium. Since they own a PS4 and spent a lot more time with PSVR than I did, I considered that a very good testimonial. It was also very satisfying to see my uncle, who is not a video game guy, get completely immersed in it when he came over for a visit.



I've only really tried VR once, and despite the not-so-immersive setting it was in, I was still very impressed. I used a demo HTC Vive at a Microsoft store and got to try four different short games. Pretty sure they were all served up through Steam, as I remember Wheatley being present in the opening section of the demo. I think that I was actually most impressed with the Google Brush (idk what it's actually called) app, that was super fun to just mess around with. So impressive, I'll probably buy one someday :D