Once upon a time in 2016 I crammed my brain cage into what was then a barely five months into launch oculus rift VR headset at a gaming expo and had my first experience of being inside minecraft surrounded by it but this was long ago and thanks to the rushed launch It was also long before oculus had their hand tracking VR controllers ready as I was playing with an Xbox controller hello again I am blonde team flusher forward to today and thanks in large but I think I can safely assume to the easy to use easy to setup and comparatively Inexpensive availability of the Microsoft VR headsets rather erroneously marketed as Microsoft mixed reality and since they’re not mixed reality virtual reality whatever and of course with my own recent series of videos reviewing testing and very much enjoying my own Windows mixed reality headset I’ve been asked more and more often lately about If I’ve played minecraft in VR and if so is it any good minecraft on Windows 10 works in VR natively and to be clear here I’m talking about the Windows Store bedrock aka better together version of Minecraft and not the original Java based on my craft and now called the Java Edition although there is an unofficial mod for the Java Edition called vive craft what you see me play here though is the official native VI experience I’d also like to make it very clear at this point that the gameplay you’re seeing thanks to the nature of The way I have to capture UWP apps as opposed to the way I capture native steamvr apps the gameplay you’re seeing here is 30 frames per second not the silky-smooth 90 frames per second I actually get inside the VR visor so if the gameplay is looking jerky to you That’s why don’t worry once more inside the VI experience it is super smooth silky smooth velvety smooth smoother than the 5 now I’ve been diving in and out of Minecraft VR since I got my Windows Emma headset late last year and for most of that time my opinion has been quite Mixed actually on the one hand the novelty of being surrounded and enveloped by a mark well it is pretty neat looking around and seeing everything in 3d it’s fun on the other hand minecraft is a game that was designed without any regard to a via experience at all and with almost every Game that has had VR stapled on after the fact instead of being designed with VR in mind from the very start the experience always felt clumsy the interface is the usual culprit in VR converted games user interfaces design for flat display mouse and keyboard or 2d controller input just Don’t work that well once shifted directly across to a 3d point and click and prod VR world and that’s no different here the hotbar use the crafting and storage interfaces are all quite clumsy to use in VR that said you can and do adapt to it relatively Quickly but I don’t think it’s ever gone to feel properly intuitive or natural not without a ground-up rethink and redesign of it the floating UI panels in my VR field of view always feel a bit fiddly this is not an insurmountable issue and my craft VR is as it’s made Quite clear on the boot screen still experimental I also initially felt like everything was the wrong scale even though it isn’t now in Minecraft your player character is basically two blocks high and on a normal screen that feels fine in fiar that made me feel like everything was way too big or otherwise Just weirdly out of scale being only twice as tall as the smallest standard unit of world building measurement feels very unusual in VR but this – you adjusted – and once you make all these adjustments and allowances and accept the compromises of having via glued over A game that was never designed for VR well it’s actually a pretty fun experience you complain as you’ve been seeing with full standing and room scale VR with hand tracking although thankfully swinging your tools is a button press you don’t actually have to physically swing your pickaxe to mine Stuff which would be a needlessly arm aching tedious experience but I will say being able to physically slash with the sword could be a fun thing though but you can also have a seated experience too as just like give my very first minecraft VI experience in late 2016 You can still simply use an Xbox controller this method feels a bit more natural if you’ve spent time playing my craft on consoles as the button layout is of course exactly the same but it does also as you might imagine feel less immersive it is nice to have the option Though touring your pre-existing minecraft worlds in VR is a pretty cool experience walking through and being surrounded by your build that till now you’ve only seen our 2d screen gives you a whole new sense of their scale but the survival experience gets a real fun boost to feeling the sense of immersion As you wander the wilderness is strained for the ominous sounds of zombies groaning and spiders chittering and the clunky bones of a skeleton and the sphincter puckering hiss of a creeper are about to explode the back of your head it all feels more threatening more visceral in VR and that really does add Something lovely some of the stuff we kind of take for granted in Minecraft becomes a bit harder though like pillar ring up to climb out of a ravine it’s very odd to do this in VR even rain becomes more special you can’t see it because you’re looking at a 2d recording But seeing rainfall in Minecraft in VR in 3d is surprisingly atmospheric and very pleasant the same goes for sunsets and sunrises for that matter it’s really neat how just being able to see these events in VR in stereoscopic 3d vision adds so much to the atmosphere and sense Of immersion in a low-res blocky by design game like Minecraft building things has made a bit easier though with your reach extended significantly beyond normal so you don’t have to move around quite as much to place blocks around you that thoughtful feature in VR now to put All this into a kind of context about how fun and how enveloping minecraft in VR can be for this video that you’re watching right now my intent yesterday most to boot it up and record about 10 minutes of simple representative gameplay to layer over the top of the Things I’m saying to you now however I got kind of involved in the early game vulnerability and ramble for resources and such and that intended to ten minutes turned into well over an hour in 73 minutes to be precise before I suddenly realized that I probably recorded enough gameplay for The video now minecraft in VR is not perfect not by a long shot but it is certainly fun and if you’re making a list of excuses to talk yourself into buying a VR headset and you’re an existing minecraft player you can certainly add this experience to Your list it’s fun it can and probably will soak up some very enjoyable gameplay hours for you and it’s free if you already own Minecraft on Windows 10 and if you already own a VR headset and haven’t tried this yet it’s well worth a go and It’s worth trying it a few times as like me you may initially find it kind of weird almost off-putting with the odds scale of the world and the less than VR ideal user interfaces but give yourself enough time to adjust and you can and probably will get I think a fairly Compelling gameplay experience thanks watching I am blunting and I will catch you next time Video Information
This video, titled ‘MINECRAFT VR – Does it Suck?’, was uploaded by Blunty on 2018-02-27 18:59:57. It has garnered 92917 views and 1246 likes. The duration of the video is 00:07:36 or 456 seconds.
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