My boyfriend's cousin had ordered himself a Microsoft Mixed Reality headset which arrived on saturday. How lucky were we that we were coming over for dinner on sunday?
After dinner, we got to play around with it a bit and it was pretty awesome! Last time we were over there for dinner, he had the Holo lens for a while, which is an AR (Augmented Reality) headset. It basically placed extra virtual items and characters into the room. there was this game in which creepy aliens came crawling out of the walls and you had to shoot them. We also tried out a game that placed virtual characters into the room and send you on a mission to find hidden objects and puzzles in the room. It was pretty awesome to see!
This time, the headset was VR (Virtual Reality) and it completely blocked the room we were in. Instead, we were walking around in a cliff house, which was basically the starting area. From there, you could open up your own desktop, check out trailers, pictures, buy games, play games, etc.
The cliff house itself is pretty cool. You're able to decorate it and it looks pretty amazing. It's situated in a beautiful area with water, cliffs and mountains. I very much wanted to visit the far away mountains, but sadly, you're not able to wander out of your own house and garden.
The glowy things are your controllers! I checked out the cliff house, but stuck with that. I had had too much to eat and didn't want to try out the game he had. It seemed like too much movement for me at that particular time. My boyfriend, however, did try it out!
It is a space game where you have to shoot at everything that's coming at you. They'll shoot at you too, so you have to dodge!
After that, he checked out the cliff house some more and made some furniture adjustments. He also tried out the ingame cinema area and made himself comfortable.
It was lots of fun playing around with this a bit and I'm sure my boyfriend will get himself one of these things eventually. It's all still very new and I'm sure there will be many improvements and upgrades in the near future. I really like the idea of this and it'll bring a whole different feel to gaming. You can put your whole body to use!
I liked the idea of the Wii and the extra movement you got out of that. I also liked the Kinect and all of the extra movement you could get out of that. Now with VR, this trend is continuing and I think it's awesome that you can give yourself a workout while gaming! Besides that, you can do it in a pretty environment too!
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