EU-experience with PS VR?

I have serious problems with Sony regarding PS VR devkit and Unity. Dunno how to transfer a 3d model to my PS4 Pro. And my PC-version of Unity doesn't offer PS VR. I will call Sony Germany tomorrow.

 

Well, it sounds a bit insane or at least unexpected. I called Sony support today and asked for a simple solution to bring my own 3d-content to the PS4 and use it with the PS VR. I'm not sure if what I've heard is definitely the truth. The support told me, that I have to publish my content via PlayStation Store. There is allegedly no other way. I can't believe that this is true. But if so I don't understand Sony's policy.

Sure, I could try it this way and offer the product for free. But what if I make content wich I don't want to share with others? For example a flat with a picture of my naked wife at the wall in the living room? Or I could place two lesbian women having sex together in the sleeping room with animations from Poser. I'm pretty sure, Sony would ban me from the PlayStation Store immediately.

It seems, I have to plug the VR-device into my desktop PC to be able to use it. Too sad.

 

LOL! "F*ck Sony" is one point of the story. The other point is, that the PS4 Pro has more power than my PC regarding such undertakings with VR. So my first hope is that Sony will enable it for private purpose soon. Nevertheless I will do some tests during the next weeks if it works on my PC. I'm really not interested in Steam. Vice versa. But I will check it. But it is the ability to use existing games only with the PSVR if I understand it right. That's not really what I want. I want to walk through buildings/scenes I made by myself.

Well, the article about PSVR at a PC is more than a year old. Hopefully we can get way more today.

Off to Skyrim ... see you later!

 

Yeah, I've heard two or three things about SL. My point is to test my own creations comming from my CAD programs or from 3DS Max or even from customer data. Starting at a low level - kinda prototype - and improving them step by step with textures, expandings and functionality. I don't want to make a brothel or such. The two lesbian women were just an example. In fact I want to run serious projects with main focus on architectural or industrial enviroment. I give you a serious example of what would not be possible. Imagine a customer asks me to make a version of his project of a house or an industrial facility to test how it feels in VR. First I had to do is to make a non-disclosure agreement with him. PlayStation Store would be a no-go in this case.

Another idea for PS Store would be indeed a private section wich is hidden from public. That should be easy to realize for Sony.

 

I own the PS4 Pro and the PSVR only. I tested "TinusPSVR" and "SteamVR" lately for four hours. I saw "Skyrim Special Edition" nearly in VR. But it was all shifted. No fun. It doesn't work correctly at my computer. All in all probably Win10 is too stupid to handle two or three displays

How ever, I will unplug the PSVR from my PC, lean back and wait until world becomes better. I don't need a dev kit. I just want to watch my own 3d-content in VR. Not a game, no commercial purpose. Just private and for fun.

I play "Horizon Zero Dawn" sice a few days. That's fun. Better than "Assassin's Creed Origin". At least regarding tension and story.

 

How ever. What I've learned from the last three weeks is: Out there in the world are several interesting and exciting things. No need for me to lament EU anymore. To say it clear: EU is a really old game. Regarding graphics it is kinda middle age. It doesn't have impressive landscapes, gameplay, story or community. It's just ... uhhhhm ... grinding and exploiting.

I plugged the PSVR to my PS4 again, enjoyed one hour of Skyrim VR with no further costs. Although there is a lot of cables, I have to admit - lol. But the major benefit for me came from "Horizon Zero Dawn". I paid something like 15 Euro for two hours "Star Wars VIII" at cinema and ~50 Euro for a week (so far) for "Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition" in UHD. And Star Wars is really lame compared to Horizon.

 

Well, I didn't play very much video games so far and Skyrim with all the mods and now in VR is still my reference. I played Skyrim estimated three times in different setups thanks to 2500 mods. And I still play it. Horizon is a complete different one. The main thing is the breathtaking, long and tension story. If you know the end it's simply done. No need to run it again. No chance to play it in a different way. But it's absolutely worth it! It's not perfect but still impressive.

I have to admit, that I prefer a good story against action. And I play Horizon in "Story-mode" only. My hero Aloy kills each enemy in a few seconds. Alas, I enjoy it. Tomorrow I will start the DLC "Frozen Wild". They told me it'll come with a new story line. Let's see.

 

Yep, the DLC "Frozen Wild" for "Horizon Zero Dawn" could become the stuff for season IV of a Zero Dawn TV-series. LOL!

I'm pretty sure I will try out "Rise of the Tomb Raider" soon as well. Man, Tomb Raider was a blast way back in 1996 at DOS! More than 20 years ago meahnwhile. Rise of the TR is the 11th part of the series including two movies with Angelina Jolie. A significant longer lasting game than Project Entropia. Reason enough to get back to it.

And finally I decided: I don't need EU in VR. This world isn't interesting enough compared to all the other worlds in 2D UHD and 3D VR I saw meanwhile. It's simply to ... ehrm ... simple. Lame even. Just bury it.

 

I bought Tomb Raider. Once it was a simple story ... well ... more or less no story. Just a lame construct to present the first sexy female super-hero in a 3d-game. With triangular peaked big breasts. But it was amazing at this time. The current TR is in 4k, comes with really good animations and features, with unbelievable smooth transitions to very good cut scenes. But the makers left the original concept. They put a skill-system to the game and tried to make kinda RPG from it. I played it approximately five hours meanwhile and don't love it anymore already. I'm disappointed. 60 Euro burned :-(

 

All in all I feel very comfortable since I left EU in early 2014 after more than nine years.

That's just the balance of the last three months. Not to mention 44 months before of not paying 250 Euro = 11.000 Euro. LOL! And furthermore most of the costs of December last year were caused by hardware wich will be a good workhorse for the next years. Makes a real good feeling.

 

And DANG! I found out today that the side story "Blood Ties", wich tells a lot of the history of Lara, her parents and butler Winston, can be played in VR! It's really cool and very interesting to explore Croft Manor in VR. So the 60 Euro arn't completely burned. Okay, it's a small DLC, two or three hours gameplay. But it's amazing.

I played this DLC as flat version before. This flat version, even in 4k and in my preferred 3rd-person-view, is the looser of this day. The fuzzy VR version is a way better experience.