So guys I had a chance to try out PS VR today at the Warsaw Games Week and wanted to share my experience.
I've got to play a short chunk of the London Heist - the interrogation scene and the robbery scene.
I went in fresh with no prior VR experience.
The headset is very comfortable, it my head perfectly and I could wear glasses no problem. First things first, there is a bit of a screen door effect and you can visibly see pixels.
But when the scene starts it's a very jarring feeling. While I was aware that it's just virtual reality and actually had that thought in my head, when the thug starts threatening you and throws a cigarette at you, I just naturally tried to evade and leaned back. You quickly forget about the low resolution and even the screen door effect. In the next scene, still knowing that what's happening isn't real, I subconsciously got so deep into it, that when I wanted to put down my flashlight I didn't think that I have a Move controller in my hand and instead of pushing a button, I fucking dropped it lol...
The controlls are very simple and intuitive, the demo acted on me a bit, screen went black two times for a second, but it were probably
just some technical issues with the setup. It was also pretty much an on rails game.
The graphics were surprisingly good. It's hard to describe, overall I wouldn't say they were better than PS3 graphics but some elements definitely were better. They also used a very smart design decision, the enemies in the "bank" were a bit blurry, so I couldn't clearly see their faces which usually are the biggest immersion breakers, this coupled with fantastic animation resulted that the enemies seemed like real people.
Absolutely no motion sickness, I don't know what the framerate was, it looks really good so I assume 60fps with the time warp but it just felt natural, I didn't think about it at all.
It was a very short demo, around 5 minutes and I've played basically all the games on the showfloor that even slightly interested me, but it was hands down the most powerful experience and the one that is stuck in my head even though and couple hours passed, I can't stop thinking about it. It's clearly the first step and it's early days for VR, it's not perfect, has some obvious flaws, but I'm sold on the idea. After finally trying it out I've decided to support this idea on Day One. While it won't replace traditional gaming in the foreseeable future I think that we might have something big on our hands. Hopefully Sony will manage to sell it to the masses.
