Post by Pigmagnet on Oct 21, 2016 10:09:09 GMT
I only watched the first few minutes of this, but based on them I urge everyone to download it. It's free.
I think a lot of people won’t even look at this. It’s not a game, it appears to be a VR movie set in a village in the clouds, and you’re watching from the viewpoint of a giant disembodied head, perhaps a character sitting on a cloud, or joe public in a huge Imax auditorium. It begins with a little claymation-style girl, on a floating platform on the edge of the village. She opens a suitcase that contains three giant matches (allumette in French, fact fans) and one of them rolls off the ledge. In my first gaspy moment so far, when I wish there had been someone else there to hand the magic hat to and say ‘look at this!’ – I reached out to try to catch the falling match. At that moment I was, I admit, truly impressed.
Then I had another 'wow' moment, when I realised purely by accident that if I leaned forward to get a better look – I actually did get a better look. The closed I peered at the little girl and her case, the sharper she looked. In fact if you look close enough at her, you see all the fuzziness disappear and the clarity is pin-sharp. It's as if the clever developers knew I would do that. Then there’s a scene with two characters inside a floating ship, with the side of the ship cut away so that the viewer can see inside. Again, the closer I leaned in the sharper the little figures got, and I realised I was having another truly ‘wow’ moment… because I was being careful not to physically bump my head on the side of the ship. This was the most convincing immersion I’d yet experienced. Better by far than any space combat or fuzzblob racer. I may not have been in the story itself, but I did feel like a giant benign presence watching these little people in their world, and I was actually taking pains not to disturb them.
I felt I was a thousand feet tall. Dammit, I felt like a god.
I think a lot of people won’t even look at this. It’s not a game, it appears to be a VR movie set in a village in the clouds, and you’re watching from the viewpoint of a giant disembodied head, perhaps a character sitting on a cloud, or joe public in a huge Imax auditorium. It begins with a little claymation-style girl, on a floating platform on the edge of the village. She opens a suitcase that contains three giant matches (allumette in French, fact fans) and one of them rolls off the ledge. In my first gaspy moment so far, when I wish there had been someone else there to hand the magic hat to and say ‘look at this!’ – I reached out to try to catch the falling match. At that moment I was, I admit, truly impressed.
Then I had another 'wow' moment, when I realised purely by accident that if I leaned forward to get a better look – I actually did get a better look. The closed I peered at the little girl and her case, the sharper she looked. In fact if you look close enough at her, you see all the fuzziness disappear and the clarity is pin-sharp. It's as if the clever developers knew I would do that. Then there’s a scene with two characters inside a floating ship, with the side of the ship cut away so that the viewer can see inside. Again, the closer I leaned in the sharper the little figures got, and I realised I was having another truly ‘wow’ moment… because I was being careful not to physically bump my head on the side of the ship. This was the most convincing immersion I’d yet experienced. Better by far than any space combat or fuzzblob racer. I may not have been in the story itself, but I did feel like a giant benign presence watching these little people in their world, and I was actually taking pains not to disturb them.
I felt I was a thousand feet tall. Dammit, I felt like a god.