Beautiful PC VR game looks “better than ever” on PSVR 2 - MIXED Reality News

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The simulation Kayak VR: Mirage already wowed maine connected the PC. The PSVR 2 mentation is present acceptable to spell 1 better.

Since the triumph of Meta Quest 2, determination are hardly immoderate VR games that are developed exclusively for PC VR and marque afloat usage of the platform’s graphical performance. Kayak VR: Mirage, released past summer, is 1 of those VR games that pushes the limits of what is technically imaginable and strives for photorealism.

It lets VR players paddle done crystal caves successful Antarctica, on the seashore of Costa Rica, nether Norway’s bluish lights and done Australia’s canyons. Whether you vie with different players and ascent the leaderboards oregon unbend and bask the scenery is up to you.

Special attraction is paid to simulating the oversea and wildlife. You volition spot penguins jumping disconnected crystal cliffs, turtles making their mode from the formation into the water, and dolphins swimming alongside the vessel arsenic you prime up the pace.

Realistic paddling and vessel physics

Kayak VR: Mirage uses 1 of the distinctive features of virtual reality: spatial tracking of the hands (via the controllers). In the VR game, you paddle with your hands arsenic if they were holding a paddle. A realistic and intuitive mode of moving astir that fits the mean perfectly.

VR paddling is made imaginable by sophisticated physics simulation, the studio’s 2nd large absorption alongside graphics. Paddling is expected to consciousness truthful existent that beginners tin rapidly larn the basics of locomotion, portion much experienced kayakers tin manoeuvre with a precision they would expect from a existent kayak.

The physics simulation besides affects different elements of the crippled world: Plants, crystal floes and boulders respond realistically to the kayak and the paddle.

Sharper than ever acknowledgment to PSVR 2’s foveated rendering

Now the workplace announced that Kayak VR: Mirage volition beryllium a launch rubric for Playstation VR 2. According to the developers, the PSVR 2 mentation volition look amended than ever acknowledgment to two peculiar features of the VR system.

One is the OLED display, which offers brighter colors and higher opposition than the LC displays utilized successful astir VR headsets.

“When we archetypal saw the crippled connected the PSVR 2 we couldn’t judge however vivid the worlds felt,” writes workplace laminitis Leon van Oord connected the Playstation Blog. The OLED show supposedly adds “a caller dimension” to the nighttime levels.

The 2nd diagnostic is Foveated Rendering, a VR-specific rendering method that uses the Playstation VR 2‘s oculus tracking to cipher the country that crippled players absorption connected astatine a higher solution – with awesome results.

“The Foveated Rendering allows the crippled to look sharper than we person ever seen it,” van Oord writes. Even Sharper than with the HP Reverb G2 PC VR headset (review) astatine maximum resolution, the workplace writes successful a tweet. Playstation VR 2 is the archetypal user VR headset to enactment this rendering technology.

Those who ain a PS5 and bargain Playstation VR 2 tin plunge into the virtual waters from February 22.

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