Hello Frontier. I am fan of dinosaurs since my childhood and seeing them "in real" is one of my dreams. It would be so great to have a chance to build the park and enjoy the ride just as in the movie. I'd even pay extra for it.
VR VR VR VR VR????
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That would be pretty cool to be able to hop into a tour vehicle in game and go for a first person ride around your park and see all the dinos.
But sadly I don't think it will happen. I am not really into VR myself. I know some are.
Maybe one day a VR game or demo could be made where they do a tour through the original Jurassic Park, especially the Rex breakout.
But sadly I don't think it will happen. I am not really into VR myself. I know some are.
Maybe one day a VR game or demo could be made where they do a tour through the original Jurassic Park, especially the Rex breakout.
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I have to agree with PCMR4life.....
I honestly don't think this is the type of game where VR would work, i mean it WOULD be nice but yeah.....
I honestly don't think this is the type of game where VR would work, i mean it WOULD be nice but yeah.....
I agree. And disagree. 
I am not that big fan of VR either, I actually saved money to purchase Oculus just becasue I wanted to "see" universe and Eliteangerous is the best you can get by now even compared to educative applications. FDev did a great job there.
VR is on the beginning of its journey and quality of the "screen" is just slightly above the average. It looks pretty much as if you set your resolution to 800x600. So it does the best with just certain kind of things, such as VR experiences, tech demos, rollecoaster games (sadly Planet Coaster does not support VR) and some other things.
Since the VR launch, developers are using Dinosaurs. But none of it is more than 30sec long. It is so amazing to stand in front of the T-Rex and see how BIG! it actually was. It can really scare you at the first sight. (you can check YT for Oculus Dreamdeck).
There are top-down games, realtime strategies, tower defense games, adventure games... all works just great in VR. But none of them is even close to how Jurassic World looks.
In general, If I should recommend just there things as "must see in VR", first would be Universe, next the Dinosaurs (there is Jungle Dino game, but it looks like from 2002 and Dinosaurs are rather static than "living") and third.. to try some VR adult video (not fun or immersive at all, but everyone should at least try it to quit secretly dreaming about it. Not worth at all).
Or if the Jurassic World could at least support stereoscopic 3D, that would be great, it is more than enough to "experience" it in VR and make a "dino safari" ride.
I am not that big fan of VR either, I actually saved money to purchase Oculus just becasue I wanted to "see" universe and Eliteangerous is the best you can get by now even compared to educative applications. FDev did a great job there. VR is on the beginning of its journey and quality of the "screen" is just slightly above the average. It looks pretty much as if you set your resolution to 800x600. So it does the best with just certain kind of things, such as VR experiences, tech demos, rollecoaster games (sadly Planet Coaster does not support VR) and some other things.
Since the VR launch, developers are using Dinosaurs. But none of it is more than 30sec long. It is so amazing to stand in front of the T-Rex and see how BIG! it actually was. It can really scare you at the first sight. (you can check YT for Oculus Dreamdeck).
There are top-down games, realtime strategies, tower defense games, adventure games... all works just great in VR. But none of them is even close to how Jurassic World looks.
In general, If I should recommend just there things as "must see in VR", first would be Universe, next the Dinosaurs (there is Jungle Dino game, but it looks like from 2002 and Dinosaurs are rather static than "living") and third.. to try some VR adult video (not fun or immersive at all, but everyone should at least try it to quit secretly dreaming about it
. Not worth at all). Or if the Jurassic World could at least support stereoscopic 3D, that would be great, it is more than enough to "experience" it in VR and make a "dino safari" ride.
The official answer (see down the bottom, pre order FAQ ; https://support.frontier.co.uk/kb/) is that VR isn't supported.
Makes sense really as it's a management game, not a first person one?
That is not a problem in any way, but others may be. For instance, VR players will for the most part want an entirely different UX, which lets them "get their hands dirty", so to speak, and as it is, everything is done using conventional paradigms.
Then there are the raw hardware matters: To begin with, the resolution of a modern computer monitor viewed at typical workstation distance is significantly higher than that of current VR headsets, meaning you'd have to lean in quite a bit, in order to resolve things down on the ground -- nothing that can't be dealt with, but not without design compromises that may be unacceptable. Second; With a management game that allows the player to build and manipulate the environment to their heart's desire, performance can very well be brought to its knees; Screen updates chugging along is not quite so much a problem on a monitor - are almost expected, out of the game category
, but in VR you must keep up rendering two views at a consistent 90 frames per second. :7