Play VR Experience
WEIGHTLESS's itch.io pageResults
| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Please rate this entry based on your overall enjoyment. | #9 | 4.800 | 4.800 |
Ranked from 75 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
What's the name of your experience?
Weightless
Please describe your creation.
It's a meditative virtual reality experience for the Leap Motion about inspecting space debris in a weightless environment.
I'm designing around a few key insights:
1. I wanted the player to have an experience that's only possible in VR. That means taking advantage of the ability to look around in any direction and having good spatial awareness. This led to investigating a weightless environment that allowed freedom of movement in any direction.
2. I wanted interaction unique to the finger tracking of the Leap. Something that could not be done compellingly with a mouse, keyboard or game pad. The idea of gently nudging and inspecting objects in micro gravity would be very difficult with a traditional control scheme but with the Leap it feels really natural.
3. In VR, with positional tracking, parallax is strongest in the near range so most of the game's interactions happen within arm's reach. Being able to bob your head around (and sometimes walk entirely around) an object really makes it seem as though it's there.
Programming language?
Unity/C#
Your web site or portfolio (optional)?
http://cargocollective.com/martinschubert
Leave a comment
Log in with itch.io to leave a comment.
Comments
Wonderful job on this! It was like floating in space :) After playing around with this a bit, I managed to get several of the "non-human" objects at once (but I wonder if when combined if they might eventually interact and/or trigger an event?).
Hey guys, looks like the world is excited about space experiences too, except yours has the added, reality blurring immersion of VR and hand tracking!
http://www.polygon.com/2014/11/28/7303899/how-first-person-shooter-fatigue-led-to-the-serene-beauty-of-adrift
This is very nice. I LOVE the idea.
Love, love, love the idea! Huge fan of space and zero G, an absolutely brilliant artistic use of the motion and VR controls, and giving a unique experience that most won't get in their lives! This could be a really cool breakthrough in tech use.
Oh! Only other comment; when I first tried to play I had my audio off, and couldn't figure out how to move around. It might make sense to use one of your great side-panels to display controls (as a "Commander's Manual" or something similar) to the player as well as your AI so there's another cue in addition to sound.
Really enjoyed the use of a fully in-game UI for events. The big volumes made it easy to interact with the buttons and tech-upgrade field.
While I'm appreciative relying entirely on the Oculus for orientation, I ended up getting myself tangled pretty easily while trying to navigate around the chamber, or else having to move "backwards" by angling my hands to the right, or else reentering the Oculus.
For the submission release Grav Tech is the only thing you can add to your suit. The plan for continuing development is to add more kinds of tech and give you more to play with.
Do you get any more poweres beyond gravity hands?
Also try setting your desktop to 1280x800 or running in windowed mode fixed the black screen bug
none dx11 version worked for me
This is great. A beautiful experience!
Updated to version 1.1! If you got a crash before, please try it again!
Looking forward to trying this but the exe files all crash on me.
Win7
Leap Motion v2.2
Thanks for the nice comments!
@HawkenKing
I'm using Open Broadcasting Software with settings as described here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/2m1sv0/best_settings_for_obs_when_recording_dk2_video/
What kind of machine setup are you capturing the video on? Looks very smooth.
very nice work
The trailer video looks really good nice work. Really takes advantage of the Leap controller hand tracking to let each finger interact with the objects. I like how it's a relaxing space experience and not shooter or horror (although those are cool too).
This looks to be a very beautiful experience!