Soundscape XR: 2024

Soundscape XR: 2024 is a free VR social world where you can play around in music visualization spaces. It worked on my HTC Vive and Index system, looked ok, played ok, sounded ok. There is a tutorial. There is some games you can play and shooting fireworks from your controllers. You can host your own instance in Freespace, then play your own music using any third party app (Steam Music Player) on your computer. You have some maps for free to use on a free account for your event when you create one. The only VR movement is a Flight mode. You can earn some in-game coin by playing every day a certain thing. You can also play using desktop with mouse or controller. They have added sessions you can play from music groups, themed rooms with their own music. The devs copy pasted this game from their Soundscape VR 2017 game. CONS: - Nobody playing this. - Does not have intergrated music playing UI. Try this for a VR social music experience.

The experience may be better if you have a VR headset, but I found it difficult to move using keyboard and mouse. At least the title is free though.

Soundscape XR: 2024 is one of the strangest free experiences I have played because it feels less like a normal game and more like stepping into a giant musical playground. I can explore surreal environments, fly around, interact with music and meet other people in a space built around audiovisual experimentation. I liked the freedom of it because I am not being pushed through a traditional campaign or objective list. The exploration is built around music rather than combat or conventional progression. I can move through different worlds, teleport around and experience spaces that change according to the sound. The Sonic AI system is designed to create a different audiovisual experience each time, which gives the environments a more unpredictable feeling. I also enjoyed the social side. I can customize my avatar, meet friends and use the same musical world across PC and VR. The crossplay idea is particularly interesting because it makes the experience feel more like a shared artistic space than a normal multiplayer game. I liked simply wandering around and seeing what other people were doing. The visual presentation is easily the strongest part. Everything is colorful, psychedeli…

The Game crashes when you try to play deadmau concert. it says GPU crash dump triggered by soundscape> Unreal engine crash. Another steamin pile of s***t software from Steam...pile of s***t

The controls are atrocious. It's painful and frustrating to do the most basic thing in any game. Move. On top of that there's a new bug where the leaves on trees are oversized very basic polygons. It could be a bug with tessellation? It makes any level with trees unplayable. This game could be something worthwhile if the controls weren't insane. Who made the design decisions for the controls? They have no idea whay they're doing. This is something that's been very thoroughly figured out and standardized. Whatever they were thinking is outright bad design when they decided on some weird contrarian controls that make no sense.

Lots of fun to just listen to music and explore. I really like watching my music change the shapes in the nebula!