WebbVR: The James Webb Space Telescope Virtual Experience

It's alright, but it has flawed controls and other issues. You cannot snap-turn, so doing this in a sitting position is annoying. The scale of the JWT also feels off (this includes even stuff like the car model which is used for scale), but that might just be an issue on my end. There's plenty of educational content here, but the voiceover is extremely quiet for some reason. There's also a strange lack of detail in the explanations of what the different parts of the JWT are, like what the 4 science tools on the cold side actually are, what they do, etc. Maybe I am just blind, but idk. When exploring planets, the voice over gets cutoff annoyingly, or doesn't trigger when teleporting to the moons from the menu. The haptic feedback/rumble tends to get stuck on when flying around. The rendering is also not very impressive, but I can understand that this is a free experience, probably made by a small team and probably had to support stuff like mobile devices as well.

The first time I opened this game and saw the JWST in front of me, I felt giddy like a little kid. I was using an Oculus Quest 2 via wireless SteamLink and it worked great. Overall, I really like the format of the game and the exploration aspects, but I find the controls clunky and unintuitive. That being said, for those who have motion sickness like me, this game is tough to get through. In the opening scene there's this parallax between the Earth moving, the viewer's camera moving, all against the backdrop of stars that's also moving. I almost shut them game off right then. My recommendation would be to keep the viewer and the stars stationary, while the Earth flies by. In addition to the opening scene, most of the travel in this game is using the joystick and "flying" around. This is also bad for motion sickness and I would like to recommend the developers add some form of teleportation mechanic, even if it's an optional toggle in the settings.