Eye of the Owl - Bosch VR
VRX · 2019 · Simulation, VR
PC
4 user reviews100% · 4 📉 Recent reviews down 89%
This game is free to play. Get it on Steam →
Screenshots
About Eye of the Owl - Bosch VR
Eye of the Owl - The Hieronymus Bosch VR experience. Enabling you to go back in time to the artist’s studio and explore his masterpiece, The Garden of Earthly Delights. This application gives you the tools to explore the painting on your own in otherwise impossible detail, while the artist himself describes the bizarre and mystifying scenes. The painting has been digitized in ultra-high resolution, you can see the brushstrokes and into the cracks. Use a virtual magnifying glass you hold in your hand to discern the faintest details. Activate the magic carpet shrink transformation to see the characters life size and even more detail.
See what you can discover about Bosch and his masterpiece.
Only one controller is used
Studio
Keyboard \
See what you can discover about Bosch and his masterpiece.
Instructions
Studio
- Use the buttons on the magnifying glass controller
- Info/Shrink - select an information point by seeing the info icon thru the magnifying glass, then pressing the Info button to shrink to the region
- Zoom - Toggel magnification factor on mag glass (only available on the top studio level)
- Timer - Displayed around the Info button when in shrink mode
Keyboard
- Space bar = Restart
- D = Demo/Exhibition mode (shorter, only 3POIs)
- X = Exit/Quit
Key Features
- A virtual magnifying glass
- Ultra-high resolution painting detail
- A painting soundscape
- Shrinking the viewer
- Vive Room Space
- Information
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
⠀9 found this helpful
Eye of the Owl - Bosch VR is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this software. Instead of being a game, Eye of the Owl - Bosch VR is a software application that lets you see artwork from Bosch. Yep, it's another application that might as well be a webpage, or up on Youtube VR. But no, the application developer behind this spent way too much time in VR cyberspace and got confused and thought he was making a video game. Only you can talk to your kids about VR addiction and the harm it causes to the basic reasoning capabilities of application developers. For those unfamiliar with what actually makes something a game, a "game loop" describes the interaction and feedback a gamer has when playing a game. Tetris, for example, has a game loop where a random block appears, the gamer interacts with the block to position it, and then the game decides if that finishes a row or not, increases the players score if any rows were completed, then gives the gamer another block to position. Counter-Strike has a game loop where a player seeks another player, tests their skill against that player by shooting them or being shot, the comp…2 found this helpful
I tried this out to feel less stressed with life, and I found an enjoyable and immersive experience analyzing and interpreting a historic masterpiece.
Eye of the Owl - Bosch VR — захватывающая VR-головоломка, погружающая в атмосферу таинственных арт-объектов. Игра сочетает интуитивное управление и сложные загадки, требующие внимательности. Графика умеренная, но атмосфера создана отлично. Подойдет любителям VR и интеллектуальных задач. Однако сложность может отпугнуть новичков. Рекомендую для тренировки логики и погружения в виртуальный мир.
[h1] …
Amazing way to experience this marvelous painting in every detail. VR is such a great way to watch and learn about world's most impressive art works! Loving it!
Community reviews
—
0 reviews
Sign in to write a review.
No reviews yet. Be the first to review this game.
