The one I'm certain about is the sphere slingshot.
Now that I think about it, Fantastic Contraption probably does it as well.
-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
ACCOUNTING, A game by CROWS CROWS CROWS and Squanchtendo - Interdimensional VR
- Thread starter Muskieratboi
- Start date
Now that I think about it, Fantastic Contraption probably does it as well.
Enordash
Member
There was one part
the courtroom
I want to say that Richie's Plank Experience does something similar? At least for me, it seemed to orient the virtual area to use the wider portion of my playspace. Could be wrong just seem to match up really well with my physical room.
Confusatron
Member
I need it to be 5pm so I can go home and play this. Just 1 hour, 32 minutes, and 10 seconds to go. 9 seconds. 8 seconds.
Today's Crows Crows Crows newsletter made me laugh. Looking forward to playing this when I finally get a headset (and the room to use it).
http://crowscrowscrows.com/sendy/w/...VVKIJFXgGEEKFHQPvg/b1YEY7p7636DwLCliqVAz892NQ
http://crowscrowscrows.com/sendy/w/...VVKIJFXgGEEKFHQPvg/b1YEY7p7636DwLCliqVAz892NQ
That is super freaking cool if so.
Chair in a Room is another great example. Should be called Chair in Your Room, because it's so conscious of your space.
Enordash
Member
I honestly thought I met the requirement. I'm something like 2.5 x 1.5. Is there an easy way to check?
This game made me laugh way too much! And I'm not the type that is easily tickled.
There is no reason for you not to try this if you have a Vive (unless you don't meet the space reqs). I almost had some game-breaking boundary issues, but I was able to cheat the tracking enough to get past it.
There is no reason for you not to try this if you have a Vive (unless you don't meet the space reqs). I almost had some game-breaking boundary issues, but I was able to cheat the tracking enough to get past it.
Zalusithix
Member
OK, that was rather amusing - got quite a few chuckles out of me. It kind of reminds me of Job Simulator, but on rails and with more attention paid to dialog.
I think a lot of the humor would have worked outside of VR, but with VR and tracked controllers you become part of the skit and it's enhanced. Definitely an experience to tack onto the list of free VR things that everybody must try (where possible).
I think a lot of the humor would have worked outside of VR, but with VR and tracked controllers you become part of the skit and it's enhanced. Definitely an experience to tack onto the list of free VR things that everybody must try (where possible).
Enordash
Member
You could always buy a shirt!
They could copy the approach used with Honey Rose - empty DLC with various amounts for people who want to put something in the tip jar.
---
Definitely need to meet those minimum space requirements. I tried it out in standing mode and couldn't even reach both filing cabinets in the first scene.
GuitarAtomik
Member
Just got finished and this thing is goofy and amazing. Can't wait for the Rick and Morty experience now lol.
Yeah, some of it would have worked outside VR, but actually physically performing actions like
physically stabbing the King of VR and playing the skeletons
Absolutely.
ScientificPizza
Banned
This is the first VR game that has made me wish I had a headset. Glad to see so many positive impressions from people.
You can measure it in SteamVR settings -> Developer -> Room Overview.
I don't know if it was a bug but in the first part where the tree guy starts yelling at you about not picking up the ringing phone he still kept yelling it into my ear when i had already picked up the phone which was pretty annoying.
Ending spoilers:
Ending spoilers:
Did anybody else shoot themselves in the end? Did anything happen after the black screen?
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Oh shit did they spawn Mr Meeseeks as the voice actor?!?!?!?
Zalusithix
Member
That's supposed to happen and is part of the humor. Also one of the things that wouldn't work nearly as well without VR as it requires easy manipulation of distances from the competing sound sources. That and the pantomiming sells it.
Never got anything after the black screen myself. I think that is a bug myself and the program is supposed to exit. Games shouldn't force you to kill them from the steam overlay.
This was actually a good showcase for why positional audio is so important for VR. I did notice the lack of proper audio occlusion at some points. That's something which still needs to be improved -- on the engine level, but also in individual projects.
It's probably pretty hard to do well without a significant performance impact. In terms of workflow, it would probably be most convenient to specify audio occlusion as part of the physical material properties of rigid bodies, but I have no idea if it's actually viable to compute it on that basis.
It's probably pretty hard to do well without a significant performance impact. In terms of workflow, it would probably be most convenient to specify audio occlusion as part of the physical material properties of rigid bodies, but I have no idea if it's actually viable to compute it on that basis.
I mean i get the joke but if he would change from don't pick up the phone when you have picked up the phone to hang up the call or something, it just felt like the game hadn't picked up the fact that i had picked up the phone.
Sounds like a bug, his dialogue changed after I picked it up. Asking who it was and etc
This was neat, makes me want a full-scale LucasArts-quality adventure game. I actually lost my hands in-game at one point due to having the SteamVR overlay up during a scene change, so it was pretty funny to start over and speed through the sections I had already seen. You can just stick your head into the desk for the first headset, for example.
Enordash
Member
Technically yes?
It's still crazy how uncomfortable VR can make you feel about certain things. There are a lot of examples in this:
the guillotine, shooting yourself, drinking acid, etc
Yup, this seems to be a consistent bug. If you have the steam overlay up during a scene change you'll lose your hands.
Zalusithix
Member
Drinking it? I just poured it over my head. =P The guillotine annoyed me just because I had to get down so low. * Sigh* So much effort just to get my head lopped off... As for the gun, I've "shot" myself in every game that gives me a projectile weapon. Finally it actually did something!
Speaking of which, I think they missed an opportunity with the "hands". They should have been real hands in the beginning and only switched to cursors in VR.
I think it actually works, in that
the game clearly wants to drive home that the "outermost" experience in the game is also VR. I mean, at every level of VR you kill yourself only to end up one more layer out, with a dark headset which you need to take off taking up most of your view. At the end of the game, you kill yourself again, and end up with a dark headset on that you will eventually need to take off 
At least that's how I took it.
Zalusithix
Member
I think it actually works, in thatthe game clearly wants to drive home that the "outermost" experience in the game is also VR. I mean, at every level of VR you kill yourself only to end up one more layer out, with a dark headset which you need to take off taking up most of your view. At the end of the game, you kill yourself again, and end up with a dark headset on that you will eventually need to take off
At least that's how I took it.
When you put it that way, the black screen after shooting yourself finally makes sense. Now I feel stupid for not noticing that it was an intentional part of the chain.
Finally got some time to play this. Absolutely brilliant! A few times I was laughing so hard.
The game also looks great and gave me one of the most intense senses of presence that I've had. I continually had to remind myself not to lean on objects in the world and once I even started reaching for my cell phone in order to take a picture of a particularly cool moment!!
That got me thinking that being able to take pictures in VR would be pretty cool.
The game also looks great and gave me one of the most intense senses of presence that I've had. I continually had to remind myself not to lean on objects in the world and once I even started reaching for my cell phone in order to take a picture of a particularly cool moment!!
That got me thinking that being able to take pictures in VR would be pretty cool.
The video camera in Rec Room blows my mind
I want one that works across games in every game
Yeah, it's another point in a long chain of evidence suggesting that using MSAA and a variable supersampling level (e.g. "The Lab" renderer) makes such a huge difference in VR that going with any technology preventing you from doing that is almost a design flaw.
Zalusithix
Member
I assume you mean with a virtual camera? Because you can take screenshots (in 3D no less).
Off-Kilter
Banned
Lmao.
Yeah like one that you can just point and shoot at any time