Driving home with a new Vive!
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Radial-G is pretty good, if you like your futuristic AG racing games (think WipEout or F-Zero.)
I hear good things about Redout too, but I haven't been able to get it to work yet (I bought it a couple of days ago and haven't really tried very hard yet, TBH.)
Games I recommend:
* Sports Bar VR (if you like billiards. If you have a friend, it also has air hockey and dart games, but both of these really need 2 players). There's also skeeball. I don't know if any more games got added recently.
* The Solus Project: This is actually a complete game for the Vive and works really well.
* Soundboxing VR: Skip audioshield; this is way more fun. Make your own beats if you don't find ones others have made that you like.
* Cloudlands: Minigolf. It's not perfect, but it can be fun...or infuriating. Because it's VR the levels can be...stupidly harder than they ever could be IRL.
* Vanishing Realms: I know it's still in Early Access, but I found the content to be good enough that I don't regret the $14 or so I spent on it. It isn't as long as The Solus Project by a long shot though. Maybe 2 hours currently?
* lightblade VR: It's $4 for a lightsaber game. WORTH IT!
* Fruit Ninja VR / Zenblade {only buy one}: FNVR = 2 katanas in all game modes with 'arcade' blade angle detection (you don't have to face the cutting edge into the fruit if the sword is moving fast enough). Zenblade = 1 katana in all scored game modes (one free-play game mode allows two katanas, but does not track high score in any form) and it's also super about blade angle. The blade *must* hit the fruit at a good angle or it won't cut.
* Google Earth VR: Get it, try it, love it. It's free. Be sure to go into settings and enable human scale.
* The Lab: Also free, and also the most loved VR game out currently.
* Portal Stories: VR : if you own Portal 2 I think you get this for free. It's fun.
* Budget Cuts Demo: A super short demo, but totally worth it to get hyped for what will hopefully be a great game!
* Destinations: Free, again, and only useful for visiting places created via photogrammetry. That said, you can see a life size version of Curiosity (the rover), on Mars, in your living room. That's DOPE!
If you want to watch a movie in VR, check out whirligig. It's free, but to get it for free I think you have to download it not-through-steam (I mean legally free; not shady-free).
If you want to overlay a desktop window into VR, download the 'Open VR Desktop Display Portal' from github. ...yeah. That should be enough to get you started.
* Sports Bar VR (if you like billiards. If you have a friend, it also has air hockey and dart games, but both of these really need 2 players). There's also skeeball. I don't know if any more games got added recently.
* The Solus Project: This is actually a complete game for the Vive and works really well.
* Soundboxing VR: Skip audioshield; this is way more fun. Make your own beats if you don't find ones others have made that you like.
* Cloudlands: Minigolf. It's not perfect, but it can be fun...or infuriating. Because it's VR the levels can be...stupidly harder than they ever could be IRL.
* Vanishing Realms: I know it's still in Early Access, but I found the content to be good enough that I don't regret the $14 or so I spent on it. It isn't as long as The Solus Project by a long shot though. Maybe 2 hours currently?
* lightblade VR: It's $4 for a lightsaber game. WORTH IT!
* Fruit Ninja VR / Zenblade {only buy one}: FNVR = 2 katanas in all game modes with 'arcade' blade angle detection (you don't have to face the cutting edge into the fruit if the sword is moving fast enough). Zenblade = 1 katana in all scored game modes (one free-play game mode allows two katanas, but does not track high score in any form) and it's also super about blade angle. The blade *must* hit the fruit at a good angle or it won't cut.
* Google Earth VR: Get it, try it, love it. It's free. Be sure to go into settings and enable human scale.
* The Lab: Also free, and also the most loved VR game out currently.
* Portal Stories: VR : if you own Portal 2 I think you get this for free. It's fun.
* Budget Cuts Demo: A super short demo, but totally worth it to get hyped for what will hopefully be a great game!
* Destinations: Free, again, and only useful for visiting places created via photogrammetry. That said, you can see a life size version of Curiosity (the rover), on Mars, in your living room. That's DOPE!
If you want to watch a movie in VR, check out whirligig. It's free, but to get it for free I think you have to download it not-through-steam (I mean legally free; not shady-free).
If you want to overlay a desktop window into VR, download the 'Open VR Desktop Display Portal' from github. ...yeah. That should be enough to get you started.
+2 for Google earth... Absolutely amazing
Brookhaven experiment for a nice atmospheric zombie game not scariest going but good fun
Hover junkers meant to be great and got that cheap when I bought horizons but still not tried it myself yet
But most important thing is make sure you have enough buttons... I have been able to touch type not long after getting my first computer in 1991... Still couldn't find landing gear button for life of me with vive on, ended up building switch panel to go with hotas as needed more switches and buttons
It is amazing though and my stomach still goes taking a steep dive down to a docking pad
Brookhaven experiment for a nice atmospheric zombie game not scariest going but good fun
Hover junkers meant to be great and got that cheap when I bought horizons but still not tried it myself yet
But most important thing is make sure you have enough buttons... I have been able to touch type not long after getting my first computer in 1991... Still couldn't find landing gear button for life of me with vive on, ended up building switch panel to go with hotas as needed more switches and buttons
It is amazing though and my stomach still goes taking a steep dive down to a docking pad
One game I wouldnt recommend, I played it for the first time today, its called "Fancy Skiing", here was me thinking its going to be a nice visual game showing off the snow covered trees as I gently ski past.
Not!, it was you ski along really fast and suddenly find that you have skied over a cliff and you are sailing through the air!, I nearly fell over and could only play it by leaning hard against a wall. A little too intense for an old fella.
Well the other game I finally tried for the first time today was this!, absolutely incredible, even though I only tried the training missions for now. I did find roll to make me slightly nauseous but think I was getting used to it.
And I thought Frontier Elite was good!
Not!, it was you ski along really fast and suddenly find that you have skied over a cliff and you are sailing through the air!, I nearly fell over and could only play it by leaning hard against a wall. A little too intense for an old fella.
Well the other game I finally tried for the first time today was this!, absolutely incredible, even though I only tried the training missions for now. I did find roll to make me slightly nauseous but think I was getting used to it.
And I thought Frontier Elite was good!
IMO. Step one do the tutorial for the Vive and literally play the lab for what amounts to probably, all day =p take it slow, if you feel nausious you have two options, most recommend you set it down and back away; I did that for the first few times before instead reverting to meditation and calm breathing while not removing the Vive (eyes closed initially, building up to--) well.. within a week or two I reached a point nothing makes me ill, not a damn thing.
Regardless keep it simple, Job Simulator for instance. Figure out what kind of VR person you are, prone to motion sickness or not kind of thing. I highly recommend following up with The Gallery: Call of Starseed, Holopoint, The Nest, Out of Ammo, Fantastic contraption, Tilt Brush (if your artistic), Zombie Training SImulator.
Then progress to more advanced funtime; Raw Data, Arizona Sunshine, Subnatica (epic really, astoundingly epic), obviously ED, Black Hat Coop if you've got a friend to play the 2D side, VR the Diner Duo is amusing and also a 2 player 1 vive 1 PC game, Vivecraft is an EXCELLENT one to play as well.
Shoutout to roguelike; I recommend Far Beyond A space odyssey.
Then theres some hidden gems, like the DOOM 3 VR, Virtual Desktop (I've put in literally around 300 hours in Overwatch via Virtual Desktop), GTA V in VR, Skyrim in VR, Fallout in VR (don't recommend this one though, since an official VR for fallout 4 is coming.)
-- Anyway, best'o luck and such
Regardless keep it simple, Job Simulator for instance. Figure out what kind of VR person you are, prone to motion sickness or not kind of thing. I highly recommend following up with The Gallery: Call of Starseed, Holopoint, The Nest, Out of Ammo, Fantastic contraption, Tilt Brush (if your artistic), Zombie Training SImulator.
Then progress to more advanced funtime; Raw Data, Arizona Sunshine, Subnatica (epic really, astoundingly epic), obviously ED, Black Hat Coop if you've got a friend to play the 2D side, VR the Diner Duo is amusing and also a 2 player 1 vive 1 PC game, Vivecraft is an EXCELLENT one to play as well.
Shoutout to roguelike; I recommend Far Beyond A space odyssey.
Then theres some hidden gems, like the DOOM 3 VR, Virtual Desktop (I've put in literally around 300 hours in Overwatch via Virtual Desktop), GTA V in VR, Skyrim in VR, Fallout in VR (don't recommend this one though, since an official VR for fallout 4 is coming.)
-- Anyway, best'o luck and such
