Friday 27 January 2017

VR game that uses motion instead of controllers looks adorably fun

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Jogger is like Frogger except in VR — and you're being chased by aliens in UFOs with freakin' laser beams attached to them. 

Normally, to achieve this kind of motion-controlled gaming, you'd either need controllers — Nintendo's Wii Remotes or Sony's Move controllers, for instance — or some kind of visual sensor like Microsoft's Kinect. 

But Jogger uses just the motion of you jogging in place as the Oculus/Samsung's GearVR headset bounces up and down to use as input for your forward momentum. Of course, you could probably cheat and shake the headset/your head up and down rapidly to go even faster than the entire weight of your body could move, but where's the fun in that?  Read more...

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