Interstellar Shore VR: I LIVE

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Interstellar Shore VR: I LIVE is a Free VR art work program that sort of reminds me of a college project. It worked on my Index and HTC Vive system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok, was Barely understandable. All the voice overs are in Chinese, most with Chinese and English subtitle, the subtitles go by too fast to read sometimes. Sound like they had multiple people to provide voice overs. The story was hard to understand. In the lobby, grab the middle Come symbol. The left symbol with space portal is a series of seven short projects. The right symbol with superheroes is Credits. Looks like an asset flip game. Don't bother downloading, if you don't understand spoken Chinese and written Chinese.

"Interstellar Shore VR: I LIVE" is not a game. Games contain meaningful gamelike interaction and game loops, which are absent in this "art experience". Instead of being a game, "Interstellar Shore VR: I LIVE" is a software application that presents a poorly made art exhibition. The art exhibition itself is garbage of the highest order... a fancy (possibly asset flipped) esoteric flythrough of a bunch of environments while some philosophy gets badly misinterpreted and mangled into Chinese through Google Translate. We get this non-game shovelware on Steam whenever your usual Starbucks barista/McDonalds frycook art school dropout finally gets a restraining order from the local art galleries so turns to Steam Direct to try get their art published somewhere so they can finally dream of moving out of their parents basement. It's true that games can be art... art is where the pinnacles of craftsmanship and quality meet vision and narrative to create an experience far greater than the sum of the parts. This isn't a game at all, and the craftsmanship and narrative are terrible. This isn't making art better, it's just making gaming worse. For those unfamiliar with what actually make…

Can be played on meta oculus quest 2. Could be an artsy story in unusual environments, but not worth playing though a too clunky implementation.

Incoherent (if you don't understand Chinese) cinematic VR experience, that feels like it was made by AI. Subtitles are always undesirable in VR, but here they are straight up broken. They disappear very quickly, do not fit into the FoV of Reverb G2 and overlap in some cases. I have no idea what the plot was about after watching it for almost half an hour: those few subtitles that were readable made very little sense. Looking at environments did not help me to understand what is going on either. Most locations look like compositions of different unrelated assets - few of them actually look nice, but in general they look very busy and incoherent. In one of the scenes performance was terrible: constant stuttering made it unplayable on Radeon RX 6800 XT. Works on Reverb G2