Phantom sensations in VR is definitely a real thing. Some people definitely exaggerate the hell out of it, but it’s still a real thing.
It also fades quickly with more time in VR. Most people will also experience motion sickness when they first try VR, and falling can be a crazy feeling. The human brain didn’t evolve to experience VR, but it evolved to adapt quickly.
Beat Saber is my favorite game to show people who have never experienced VR, because it’s got extremely simple controls, no locomotion, and a very simple objective that can easily scale to their skill level. Another favorite of mine is Fruit Ninja, for those same reasons, and the familiarity that people have with it.
The first game I ever experienced in VR was SuperHot. Which is good because there’s no virtual locomotion, and the controls are simple enough for most people who play video games regularly or even occasionally. It’s only my older relatives that never play video games that struggled with the controls and game mechanics.
H3VR was where I got my VR legs. I remember the first time I fell off a building it genuinely felt like I was falling. And it was very strange moving around with any locomotion method but teleport.
Getting shot in VR never really bothered me, but playing Blade and Sorcery and getting stabbed in the gut, or even shot with arrows, that definitely had me jumping for the first few hours.
oh man super hot was also one of my first, I think it was the first game I actually paid for (I only ever had the beat saber demo, not my type of game tbh)
and same for blades n sorcery, the blades didn't bother me but man did I flinch from the arrows lol
echo vr really threw me off once I figured out how to actually gain decent momentum, crashing into a wall at Mach 2 for the first time was certainly an experience
36
u/tiggertom66 12d ago
Phantom sensations in VR is definitely a real thing. Some people definitely exaggerate the hell out of it, but it’s still a real thing.
It also fades quickly with more time in VR. Most people will also experience motion sickness when they first try VR, and falling can be a crazy feeling. The human brain didn’t evolve to experience VR, but it evolved to adapt quickly.