Visionarium

Reminds me of a VR version of the Digital Illusions (DICE) 4 kilobyte surreal graphics demos from back in the 90s. Great stuff!

The key to a good VR trip is decent visuals with smooth movement, plus the crucial ability to add your own musik: naturally I added some choice cuts from the dark/forest/hi-tech psy-trance scenes. The visuals complemented these favourite tunes nicely, putting me in the mind of a psychedelic journey to inner alien realms while having a good dance. It was so enjoyable I'll do it again with old-school Goa next time. My own settings: set Rift S resolution to 200%, Heavy camera movement and just go with the flow. You don't control anything, other than some strips of light which you can have some limited fun with. Note: this isn't a game, it's only a psychedelic trip visual experience that lasts about 20-30 minutes. If you like that sort of thing and have your own taste in trippy tunes then it's worth the few euros, sure. Put on your best headphones! EDIT: Alas, some negatives which I realised on my second play: 1) WAVs are claimed to be supported but crash the game every time. This took me a few attempts to figure out, so made the 2nd-point below quite frustrating... 2) Those long-delayed press-option actions are very annoying, and utterly senseless: instead of selecting an option like almost all menu options ever created (where they instantly react), you have to point your head at your preferred option and wait 2 seconds for it to select. When you want custom-music, you have to do this 6 times before the experience starts...so when you're constantly restarting the game due to crashes this gets old quick. 3) the menu for choosing your custom music during play is extremely unresponsive & buggy. You'll be lucky if you manage to select a track. Pausing is near-impossible...the buttons just don't react. You're better off leaving 3 or 4 favourite tracks in your music-folder, moving the rest elsewhere before starting the program. Furthermore: I wanted perfect audio for my second play, but with WAVs not an option I at least wanted to use the line-out via the motherboard (which offers greater dynamics than the phones-output of the Rift): the line-out was selected as system-default before starting, yet Visionarium kept using the Rift S output anyway...I had to go deep into Windows options to manually-select Visionarium to use the motherboard's line-out, then restart the game (again!). I'm not sure if this is specifically this game's fault...it may be a Steam/Oculus thing. ...so my second play was so stop-start i didn't have the stamina to do the full experience once I finally got the setup working...but I did do one full track (a 320kbps MP3 of the relentless intense trance of Goch - Inner Sphere), which equated to roughly the first 7 minutes of Visionarium...and to end on a positive note it was a fantastic combination! So I'll do it again in a few days now knowing how to more efficiently avoid the bugs. Still recommended as the visuals are proper! But the presentation could be more polished.

Incredible psychedelic experience. Art is amazing. But definitely pick the smooth and/or easy mode if you're new to VR.

I got this on sale ($5.19), but full price ($7.99) would also be well worth it, imo, and the only thing I've looked at so far is the main experience with provided music. It's like a 30 minute flying tour through an animated Alex Grey-esque tilt brush painting. If that sounds even slightly interesting, you're going to love this.

This is a great 30 minute journey that seems to get better the longer you watch. One of my favorite VR sims!

just mind blowing, I have purchase both version and the meta version, i really would love to see part 3, this experience is so ahead of it's time.

One of the better visualisers I've used in VR. The first few minutes you'll say "This is it?" but after a few minutes you feel fully immersed and I legit forgot I was in VR.