Claude Monet - The Water Lily obsession

[h1]Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers[/h1] [i]Oculus users: To get this app to work on the Oculus Rift, take these steps: 1. Start Steam VR 2. Then start this app 3. Ignore the pop up that says looking for "Vive" 4. Click to the app tab to get app to render to HMD[/i] This is a 10 minute, purely cinematic stand-still experience with no interactions. I really liked what I saw from this app, but I experienced various issues. The first one is that this app seems to have been made with only the HTC Vive in mind. Secondly, while there is no use of motion controllers, it does seem that certain button presses effect the app, notably, that trigger re-centers view. Thirdly, I experienced very poor performance on my 1060 GTX. I had low frame rates throughout & a warping effect on the edges. Lastly, the sound would cut in and out. Despite all the above, when this app did work, the few times that it did, it looked amazing. It was like being inside a Claude Monet painting and it was so beautiful. It made me forget, for a few seconds, all the above issues getting this app to work properly. [b]Rate 5/10. I'm not sure it's worth the download on the Oculus or if you don't have a high-end rig.[/b]

TLDR: For those who haven't paid to buy it, i suggest you don't buy unless you want to donate to the dev team for their intention, not the product quality. For myself, I don't regret paying to support the dev team, but really hope they can do it better , yes, Dear Dev team, please try play IL DIVINO: Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling experience and Nefertari: Journey to Eternityfor and Dear Angelica before you create the next product. I really hope you can do better. ---------------------- Full review: I really want to like it, as i love Monet and want to experience it in VR. And i appreciate the work put in but this is sub par quality product compared all the good VR experiences out there (look at the IL DIVINO: Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling experience or Nefertari: Journey to Eternityfor example, both of those are even free ! ) The major problems are: 1. it won't even launch correctly, when trying to open a strange vive link, which as I have no vive ( i am using index, which is supported according the store page) , it jumps to windows store page. you have to take off headset, or go to desktop mode to click it to open stupid windows store to get the app pass to starting screen. This took me ten minutes to try and error to find out, terrible experience. 2. the experience it self doesn't even support controller, try to use it on title screen will screw the language selection, you have to use gaze to select mode to select the language, and through out the experience, there is no controller support. even though the store page repeatedly told you it requires a controller to play, in reality it's useless in the game. 3. let's be honest, there is zero interaction throughout the experience, it's no different than watching a 3D video. It is a VR film, don't call it experience, there are a lot good VR film, such as Oculus story studio's work, but this is much worse compare to those because of bad story telling and presentation (see below) 4. limited walking range, due to the fact you cannot use controller to teleport, you can only walk to the edge of your play area, in some scenes, i want to walk closer to the shore or particular item that looks interesting, i couldn't 5. the story telling is totally relying on the auditory narration, with no single character was rendered visually, you have to guess what's happening by listening, don't get me wrong, the narrator did a good job, but with only one person playing two roles, not changing in tones or voice, you cannot even tell who is who in the dialog (which is not dialog, just letters between monet and friend been read out loud in reality), and the visual is virtually nothing linked to the story except showing the year and the ending scene. 6. bad performance, in the ending scene when there is some changes, the visual becomes choppy and frame rate drop to below 40 (i am on rtx 2080 super, it's not my pc, it's bad optimization) Overall, it wants to be something like oculus story studio's dear angelica, but becomes much worse version of it due to zero visual character and bad story telling. it has so much potential but sadly falling short.

Claude Monet - The Water Lily obsession [u]Внимание: программа только под VR, без комплекта оного, она не работает.[/u] Ну и помимо прочего стоит иметь в виду что она заточена под владельцев HTC Vive, то есть на других комплектах будет запрашивать программу для Vive. Это дело нужно проигнорить, после этого все пойдет нормально. Сама программка достаточно небольшая. У нас будет возможность постоять в залитом чистой водой помещении, на стенах которого развешаны картины Моне из цикла Кувшинок. О истории их создания можно будет послушать рассказ и потом, представить себя в трепетном обличье самого Моне, войти в картину и посмотреть как этот пейзаж выглядел в живую. Как итог: все это дело выглядит красиво, однако я не уверен что программа стоит своих денег, имхо. Ибо это больше тянет на бесплатную презентацию для музеев, чем на самостоятельный продукт.

It ran perfect on my mid-range gaming laptop. I watched this with a Quest 2 wirelessly connected to the laptop using Virtual Desktop and performance/fps was excellent. Like another reviewer mentioned already : you'll see a Windows pop-up mentioning something about a required app to open a Vive link, but you can just ignore this by clicking next to that window, so the Monet experience is in focus again, and you'll have to do this 3 or 4 times, after which the app menu is finally shown in VR. About the experience: if you can appreciate art, and specifically like impressionism, then you're in for a treat. Very short, not interactive, but.. you'll feel like you're inside a Monet painting.. surrounded by paint strokes and colors.

Does keeps running in the background, so make sure to restart steam after playing. Short but great experience, will make you wanna paint in watercolor.

люблю такое, но у меня все мыльновато, это не люблю

My favorite from the series (ARTE Trips 2019-06-19). Beautiful graphics, great audio and acting, emotional and interesting story. The others are still very worth looking at. Thanks for sharing those for free.

Good quality, something you can show a parent or grandparent in vr to impress them with the quality

Short but great! Thank you! Please make more like this!

Excellent. Some issues with running it about native pixel density. It is a fully 3d experience rather than a 360 film.