Please State Your Name : A VR Animated Film

It's ok for a VR short film, but I'd definitely recommend checking out other VR short films like the Google Spotlight Stories series (Age of Sail) afterword.

E um curtametragem bem produzido e agradável de assistir, apesar de ser uma história meio sem nexo. Vale a pena pela experiência visual.

It is difficult to give this work a fair review. On one hand, every technical aspect works very well. It plays smoothly, and all the pieces preform what they are supposed to. It is meant to be a purely passive experience. As a free product, it delivers a properly working product. Unfortunately a Passive experience lives and dies on the contents of the story, and it is impossible to not compare this to Wall-E, a bar that this animation is in no way capable of living up to. The design is simple, yet uninspired and unexpressive, the character has only a single line, and yet nothing is done to use that line to convey an actual sense of dialog. Wall-E, Groot, and other characters with similarly limited vocabulary still use that minimalism to convey entire paragraphs of context. As for the story itself, it is either too vague, and I am missing it entirely,(which rarely happens) or it is so over simplified as to not even be recognizable as a story. There was a head, there was a problem, he met another head and together they pressed a button, and the problem was solved. For some reason that is meaningful? Perhaps all of this could have been ignored if there was something added by making this a VR experience. If any of this somehow showcased how a regular experience can be made more impressive by using VR as the medium, I would at least be able to say it's worth trying, but I don't feel anything like this. This feels like a school project where the student was busier checking to make sure they met all the stupid structural criteria to qualify for the grade, and then making sure they didn't write anything too difficult to animate, that making sure the story was actually enjoyable was never factored into the equation. I don't usually do this to a free product that has no actual technical issues, but I just can't recommend this one.

---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Gnome. ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Paint.exe ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Gnome. ☐ Mehh ☐ Starring at walls is better ☐ Just don‘t ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Gnome. ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☑ Gnome. ☐ Adults ☐ Human ☐ Lizards ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Gnome. ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boiiiiii ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulity}--- ☐ Just press ‚A‘ ☐ Easy ☑ Gnome. ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isnt necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☑ Gnome. ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding ---{Story}--- ☐ Story? ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☐ Average ☑ Gnome. ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Gnome. ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{Price}--- ☐ It’s free! ☑ Gnome. ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☑ Gnome. ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

Nice little short story, defintely worth a quick look. This short and charming 10 minute animated VR film has a touch of WALL-E as you follow a decapitated robot head who is stuck with a broken voice box. He tries to escape a giant garbage facility where robots are being deconstructured, embarking on a small journey that will decide his fate. While it cleverly uses the medium of VR to draw your attention 360° around the space, my main (and only) crticism is the VR film utilizes cuts that work in traditional film, but in VR it's really jarring. I would suggest fade in / out during transitions or having the player on a moving platform that narratively worked in the world, to mitigate the jerky feeling of unanticipatedly being teleported. This was an otherwise enjoyable short VR film! I'd suggest watching it sitting down in a swivel chair, or know that your viewpoint will be moving in the film while you stand still. WOW! Just watched this. Amazing work. I think this is the first VR short film I've ever seen using the VIVE.

beautiful story ..;nicely done ...watch it you won't regret it .....

Solo si queres perder tiempo. Aburrido, pobres graficos y sin interaccion alguna.