It's pitched as a 'Virtual Reality LAN party.' You co-occupy a virtual scene with up to three other people, and a version of your computer desktop floats in front of you, available to play games on or do whatever. My friend wanted to show me BigScreen, which is a blend of AltspaceVR and old-fashioned screen sharing. They have a better understanding of what I'm trying to feel when I put on a headset.īut I wasn't ready to feel this.
Now my VR times are mediated by friends and co-workers, which is way better. It was gentle way to start an afternoon of VR.Ī lot of my VR experiences so far have been 'piloted.' I don't own a system, and for a long while I couldn't own a system, so typically a press representative, a game developer, or an engineer would hand me a headset and I'd experience whatever they wanted me to experience. They were fun, although not quite mind-melting. I hadn't seen all these tech demos before. We started with Dreamscape, the official collection of short, passive VR experiences Oculus provides, which was great. It's nice it makes VR feel a little more 'social' and a little less 'man cave.'
He has a nice apartment, and instead of hiding the Oculus away in a bedroom, he's devised a setup where you can sit at the kitchen table in his brightly lit living room. I went over to a friend's house the other day to have some quality time in his Oculus Rift. Warning: this post includes graphic content.
