10 VR Games and Experiences I Like
My earliest preconception of VR was that it was Doom while wearing a headset. That's what I thought it was. I was way off. A few years ago at Christmas, my brother-in-law said "Try this", put his PlayStation VR headset on my head, and I was blown away. He had me a try a game where you ride a mine cart through a haunted carnival of sorts (I forget the name), and I was surprised that I could lean forward and peer around a corner. I couldn't believe it. But I was hooked. Days later, I had acquired my own PlayStation VR, and given more time with it, could more easily notice the downsides: being tethered to the game console with the headset's wire, the need for an external camera, and a mild "screen door effect" due to the somewhat low resolution of the headset. From there, I progressed to the original Oculus Quest. Wireless, fully-contained, inside out camera tracking, with higher resolution than PlayStation VR. The downside here was the mobile processor...