Gaming

Oculus Quest review – no strings attached



Because Oculus Quest is running on smartphone tech, and not a PC, games already released for Rift aren’t automatically available for Quest. However, many of the most popular titles have already been ported over and work surprising well.

We’ll be doing a more detailed software round-up soon but some of the launch titles include well-known VR games such as Moss, Beat Saber, Robo Recall, Dead And Buried II, Super Hot VR, Dance Central, Fruit Ninja, and Job Simulator.

They all look impressively close to their PC versions, as if you’re playing the same game but just on slightly lower graphical settings. And where there are PlayStation VR equivalents they work much better on Quest thanks to the higher resolution and roomscale tracking. Being able to move around more freely with music game Beat Saber, for example, and not have to worry about the cable sticking out the back of your head transforms it from a fun single-player experience to a proper full-on party game.

Some of the games aren’t available on PlayStation though, such as Star Wars game Vader Immortal. It’s only the first chapter of a series of releases, so lasts only 40 minutes or so, but swaggering around your living room doing quests for the Dark Lord of the Sith, as you swing your own lightsabre around, is a Star Wars dream come true.

There are also non-gaming apps as well, including the self-explanatory VR Chat and YouTube VR, plus apps to let you watch TV and movies as if you were in front of an impossibly large screen. Those are all free but there’s also a paid-for 3D paint package from Google called Tilt Brush, and VR ‘experiences’ such as an interactive Apollo 11 documentary and virtual sightseeing app Wander.





READ SOURCE

Leave a Reply

This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you accept our use of cookies.