I mentioned this earlier, but my Guided Meditation VR app is my most regularly used VR app. I have come to integrate it into my morning sleep routine (because my clock is flipped so I can work graveyard). I come home, feed Siete, empty his box and drink a pint of water, then put on the headset and either allow the meditation app to guide me through a 5 or 10 minute meditation, or just set it in "motion" which floats you through the environment just above the ground, changing your location within each environment randomly. You can turn on music or leave it only to the natural sounds in the environment. In VR content, all sound is directional like it is in the real world. If you hear a waterfall, you can follow the sound to it, and as you turn your ears, the sound changes accordingly. It is all seamless and extremely realistic as though you were really there. Here is the video from the maker:
Apps like this are extremely cathartic. If you could actually walk through a forest or sit by the beach or atop a bluff overlooking the desert every morning, you would have a much lower stress level than if you didn't. VR allows you to do it easily. Sitting on your couch.
A second app called Nature Treks VR is much different in approach. There is no meditation, but the immersion is much much more integrated into the experience. You can freely move through the environments as though you were hiking and exploring the environment without any particular goal other than to relax and enjoy the surroundings. The trigger activated movement means you do not have to stand and walk, you just sort of glide, turning your head in the direction you want to go. Very smooth and relaxing to glide along the beach or down a forest path or climb rocks and hills. Beautiful graphics.
I love this one, because you can just walk around, and in most of them there is wildlife like deer, or tigers, or wild boars, or fish, and also birds in the sky which fly in flocks, or perhaps a random one or two will land in trees close by.
2D representations just do not convey the experience of VR. If you can, try a VR headset if you see one set up in Best Buy or anywhere else. It does not matter which brand/model you try, it's the virtual reality experience you should try in whatever way you can get it. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend any phone based "virtual reality". Without controllers and precise tracking, the illusion is broken.
Apps like this are extremely cathartic. If you could actually walk through a forest or sit by the beach or atop a bluff overlooking the desert every morning, you would have a much lower stress level than if you didn't. VR allows you to do it easily. Sitting on your couch.
A second app called Nature Treks VR is much different in approach. There is no meditation, but the immersion is much much more integrated into the experience. You can freely move through the environments as though you were hiking and exploring the environment without any particular goal other than to relax and enjoy the surroundings. The trigger activated movement means you do not have to stand and walk, you just sort of glide, turning your head in the direction you want to go. Very smooth and relaxing to glide along the beach or down a forest path or climb rocks and hills. Beautiful graphics.
I love this one, because you can just walk around, and in most of them there is wildlife like deer, or tigers, or wild boars, or fish, and also birds in the sky which fly in flocks, or perhaps a random one or two will land in trees close by.
2D representations just do not convey the experience of VR. If you can, try a VR headset if you see one set up in Best Buy or anywhere else. It does not matter which brand/model you try, it's the virtual reality experience you should try in whatever way you can get it. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend any phone based "virtual reality". Without controllers and precise tracking, the illusion is broken.
