
Guildford Castle is a free roaming, narrative VR experience with light interactivity.
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it's a really nice tour of medieval guildford. i love being able to imagine the past and compare it with the present day. it's free, i don't think people should be angry that it's not a game. it's an interactive VR experience and it definitely lives up to that.
Graphics weren't great, even on my old Windows Mixed Reality headset. The benches were flickery. The outside looked too green and cartoony and low detail, which is fine if it was just window dressing, for the castle being the main event..... nope. You can stand in front of a flower bed and turn your head back and forth, with your eyes fixed, and you can see the flowers rendering and unrendering right before your eyes, depending on the angle of youer head. The castle looks even worse, with low res textures that look like they JUST about to load in and clear up, but no, that's as good as they're going to get. This is especially bad around edges (look out any window). The author should clarify that "God Mod" doesn't let you fly or do anything godlike....it just lets you look down at the village below and click on one of the labeled areas. On the bright side, the controls were fantastic on WMR, with smooth turning being the default. You can turn the obnoxious footstep volume down as well, which was a welcome feature. It's good, but I was looking for a nice "1st VR Experience" for my mother in law (something like VR Museum of Fine Art, but where you can play sitting and rotate with the stick, like this). Sadly, this did not quite make the grade. Even with all the settings cranked, it still looked average/not great. The narration is a nice touch and well done. If I were more interested in history and less interested in wowing someone with how real VR can be, I would probably appreciate it a lot more, so if you like castles, go for it. It's basically a crappy one-room castle, so keep your expectations low.
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Mixed Reality, could not eliminate movement and turn drift. Tried many settings, but then could not move at all.
upvote for the effort and information. it's not a perfect experience tho
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Great experience! God-mode allows you to climb around the walls and walk the town and Palace and other areas! Please more of these kind of historic tours! Wonderfully done! The reconstructions are detailed and well done. Attention to details extends even to variation of buildings in town, flying birds, music and sounds - somewhat unexpected! (knowing less well made Historic Experiences) This one is just a great well made experience! Performance on my now somewhat outdated system with an old Oculus Rift S without any issues!
This is probably the worst VR experience/game I played until now regarding perfomance/bugs. In my setup w Quest 2 with link cable or airlink I had several problems, from hicups, freezing (even freezing my quest2), to delayed audio and artifects after go on top of the tower. Even playing on low/medium with RTX 3070, Ryzen 7 5700x (Both CPU and GPU without OC), M2 SSD, 32GB, Windows 11 and Oculus OS updated I had problems. I dont know if this is a problem with AMD processors or what, because the specs does not include AMD CPU...Even with resolution 1x or auto the game freezes for me, it freezes Steam VR in a way that I have to close on the computer because my Quest 2 becomes unresponsive. Other games works fine, only this one I have problems. If the game does not had these problems I could recommend, only because it is free.
Very informative. Good solutions found for knowledge transfer. I liked the god mode and free roaming around the village very much. Some minor VR issues and quality loss with old headsets though. Definitely worth a download!
Demonstrates the amazing potential VR has for interpreting and appreciating historic sites.
Absolutely awesome! We need more of this type of experiences.
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