Pirate Paradise/Coaster Combat/Oculus GO

HOGWARTS- like Roller Coaster/Coaster Combat/Cursed Castle/Oculus GO

Let's Go Home/FREE Horror Game/Oculus GO

Free Oculus Go Game

Check out this fun free game for the Oculus Go!  If you have a chance to try out or buy a VR headset, I highly recommend it.  It opens up new worlds.  Everyone in my family loves the Go.

A Questing We will Go! (World of Mazes, Part 1), Oculus Go

Here's part 1 :-)

World of Mazes/EP. 2/Oculus GO VR

Here's part 2 :-)

World of Mazes/EP 3/Oculus GO

Hi Guys, this is part 3 of my World of Mazes Oculus Go let's play series.  Parts 1 and 2 can be found on my Youtube channel under the name BadGamerKat.

I had NO idea I could share my videos here :-).

I Bougth the Oculus QUEST

I Am Out of CONTROL

Seriously, I need help, lol.

I love my Oculus Go so much, and I've been using it every day since I got it just after Christmas. I bought it with my Christmas money and my whole family loves it.

That should be enough.  Except when I bought the Go, I also wanted the Quest.  I was afraid of the higher price tag though, and worried that I might get sick in virtual reality.  A lot of people do.

As it turns out, I am fine in virtual reality.  I totally love it.  I'd stay in the headset longer if I could but the Go gets hot depending on the app it's running.

And the Go is wonderful for watching movies and videos and for some games, but it doesn't have 6 degrees of freedom (which means moving in the virtual space exactly like you do in real life).

One of the things I was most excited about was the app called Tilt Brush, which is not available on the Go.

Anyway, long story short(er)…I still wanted the Quest.  I didn't get it because our local Best Buy was out of them.  They fly off the shelves as soon as they come in.  Last night I checked online and noticed they had restocked.  I impulsively reserved one...they give you up to 24 hours to pick them up when you do that.  As soon as I reserved mine, the local store switched to "no longer available".  I'd gotten the last one.

Anyway, this morning I got an email saying it was ready to be picked up and they would hold it for another 12 hours.  So I ran in and got it.

My brand new Oculus Quest

I feel bad because I spent more on myself.  On the way there I tried to justify it by reminding myself that I don't smoke or drink (I had like 5 drinks in the entire year last year, two of them at Christmas, lol).  I don't go to bars. I don't gamble.  I rarely even go to the movies.  I can't travel because I can't leave my parrot.  Almost everything I do is free (walking, swimming, bike riding).  So in that way, it' OK to spend some money on myself.

On the other hand, I felt bad for my Oculus Go.  It's brand new; only a few weeks old and I feel like it's going to be overshadowed by it's sibling.  I told you I need help, lol.

Then again, my parents and relatives LOVE my Go.  They love sitting in a chair and getting transported to new places.  They especially love the travel videos, and the Wander with Friends App, which lets you visit Google Earth, but in 3D.  So it's way better than Google earth on the computer because you're right inside the images and it's fun.  So my Go will still get used.  I like using it in bed to watch videos.  And I'm thinking of bringing it to the seniors home where my aunt lives; I think she'd love to see videos of her home country, Austria.  So it will still get used.

But I'm super excited about the Go. It game bundled with 3 free Star Wars type games, called Vader Immortal.  I'm going to buy Tilt Brush too.

The games for the Quest are much more expensive than the Go, so I probably will still get a lot of use on my Go.  The Go has hundreds of games and apps, and I swear it seems like at least half of them are free.  So there's a lot of content to go through.

OK, I feel better now, lol.  Thanks for listening. :-)

Oculus Go Art Programs

Art in Virtual Reality

Is So Much Fun!!!!

Seriously fun!

Imagine if you had a magic wand that could reproduce every paint, marker, crayon, pencil...and that you could wave your arms and draw in the air, all around you.

That is EXACTLY what you can do in the Oculus Go, with various paint programs.

Now, I'm not an artist, and the following pictures will clearly show that, lol, but imagine these images not as flat images but as 3D images that you can walk through, walk around, and be a part of.

3D painting in Oculus Go

The painting above...dare I call it that, lol, looks vaguely like a globe...or maybe a tangled ball of yarn.  In the Oculus Go, however, it was a vast dome throbbing with ribbons of color.  It was big enough to walk into, and to stand inside, surrounded by color.  It was huge.  

The ability to draw in the space around me with vibrant colors makes me happy.  It doesn't matter that I don't know how to draw; just being surrounded by ribbons of color set off my dopamine and seretonin and made my brain light up like a Christmas tree, lol.

That painting above was done with an inexpensive (under 5 dollars) program called Paint VR  It is a fantastic program, but a bit hard to learn.  There are tutorials on YouTube but the tutorials don't have commentary and are hard to follow, for me, anyway.  When I get better with this program, I'll make my own simple tutorials.  

I also tried some 2D painting in Virtual reality. It was also fun, but not as fun as painting in 3D.

Trying Cyber Paint in the Oculus Go

The above painting was done in a program called Cyber Paint, in the Oculus Go. I really enjoyed this program and had fun playing with paint effects that made the clouds and water look wavy.  I think this will also be a lot of fun when I learn how to use the program better.

Go Paint on the Oculus Go

I did the above painting on a program called Go Paint on the Oculus Go. It is the most popular art program for the Go, as far as I can tell.  Loads of fun, but again, I need to take some time to learn what I'm doing, lol.

I have two other paint programs to check out; one called VR Canvas, and one that does sculpting in VR.  

I'm having loads of fun and highly recommend trying the Oculus Go along with any one of these paint programs, if you get a chance.  If you only get to try one program, try the Paint VR program because there is nothing like painting in 3D, being totally immersed in the art.

Oculus go only has 3 degrees of freedom, and only 1 controller, so now I'm dying to try the Oculus Quest, with 6 degrees of freedom and 2 controllers. There's an art program called Tilt Brush that looks amazing. I think I am going to save up to get the Quest for my birthday, lol.  Or maybe next Christmas.  The Go is better because there are waaaay more programs and games available for the Go, at much lower prices.  Just my opinion.  If you have loads of money to burn, totally get the Quest...or the Rift :-). 

I Got the Oculus Go for Christmas!

I Got the Oculus Go for Christmas

Oculus Go is a virtual reality headset that let's you play immersive 360 videos and games without the need for a high end computer.

It's seriously awesome.

I have wanted to try virtual reality for ages.  Since the 80's or 90's, back when it first came out.  It was too expensive though. 

Then in 2012 or so I started reading about VR again and was super interested.  Oculus Rift came out that year, but I remember waiting and waiting for it to come out.  Unfortunately, it was super expensive and only for developers at first.  I didn't have a good enough computer to run it, even if I could have saved up for it.

Then the HTC Vive came out and I wanted that too, but it also needed a high end gaming computer.

Samsung Gear and Google Daydream sounded promising, but they both needed high end smartphones, and at the time I didn't even have a smartphone, let alone a high end one.

Then Google Cardboard came out and I did try that, and even got a cheap smartphone, but it wasn't the right kind so it didn't work.

When I first heard about the Oculus Go I was intrigued. It was an all in one VR headset that didn't require a computer or a smartphone. But I decided to wait to see if it would fizz out because I'd purchased an Xbox Kinect that was a lot of fun and so promising, and I loved it, but it sort of died out and developers stopped making games for it.  I wanted to see if developers would stick with the Go.

And they did! 

I downloaded tons of free games and apps for my new Go, and I also bought a ton of games and apps at insanely cheap prices due to boxing week sales. I paid less than a dollar for most games, between 2-6 dollars for the a few.  The most expensive one was only 11 bucks...Canadian!  

Plus there are loads of free videos on YouTube, and free 360 photos are everywhere.

I'm super excited, and my parents love it too.  

I'll do some game and app reviews soon.

Happy New Year!