Week 3 – 3 VR Titles Review – Ryan Yuan

The three VR titles that I have experienced  are BBC Home, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR and Super Hot.

1. BBC Home on HTC Vive Pro

This VR experience is marvelous as I am acting like an astronaut to fix a space station. The audio effect is spatial as if I am really in an astronaut suit listening to a radio, and the sense of losing gravity really makes me feel like being in space. Even though the part that I need to press the button to catch on the bars does not make me feel real, but its physics engine that restore how it feels when grabbing something to push me forward still makes it perfect. Also the shadow and light in the graphics make the perfect enviornment of space, at the end of the experience when the station has exploede and the astronaut is floating away, it really makes me feel dizzy and helpless when I have failed to reach the station and ends up to death. Everything is real and amazing.

2.The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR on PS4 VR

I fail to experience it on class, but I do have tried it else where. I have played the game on PC years ago, it is a game that I can customize a lot of things and almost do whatever I want, I can be a worrier who slays dragon and also I can use magic to fight against epic monsters. Everything are restored in the VR game which is impressive, even though the graphics is not that satisfying, but the audio part is amazing, the sound of monsters and environmental sounds, and the sound of hitting something or using a magic, these all make the game amazing. I really feel that I am being a wizard in a fantasy world, living with all kinds of species. I also need to dodge and defend in the battle, these movements also make it real as if I am really fighting with something in reality, even though I cannot feel the sense of death when my character is really killed.

3. Super Hot on Oculus

This is also a game that I have played on PC, the game is designed to kill all the enemies in slow-motion using everything you can grab within range. The way I control the character to move is not by my body movement but by the controller which make it less real, but the audio effect and the feeling of hitting something is brilliant. Even though the game is a bit violent, the experience is quite exciting. Also it is an amazing experience to move the body in a slow-motion.

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