PokerStars VR Metaverse Poker Tour Season 2 in Full Swing - VegasSlotsOnline

Poker players who don’t privation to permission their location tin play successful Season 2 of the PokerStars VR Metaverse Poker Tour this weekend. [Image: PokerStars VR via Steam forums]

A poker circuit that requires nary travel

If you are itching to get into a poker tourney this weekend, but don’t unrecorded adjacent a casino, you could logon to an online poker room, but adjacent with that, not everybody lives successful a jurisdiction wherever the online crippled is legal. Plus, portion online poker is fun, it’s not similar the existent thing. Enter the PokerStars VR Metaverse Poker Tour, whose 2nd play has conscionable begun.

yes, a poker circuit successful virtual reality

Yes, poker successful virtual reality. And yes, a poker circuit successful virtual reality. If that sounds weird, well, it benignant of is, but it’s escaped and it’s poker and, arsenic idiosyncratic who has played PokerStars VR, it tin beryllium fun.

Season 2 kicked disconnected connected Thursday, but the existent stop, Macau (or “Macau”), runs done the weekend. There are 9 events connected Friday, starting mid-afternoon ET. They each outgo virtual chips; PokerStars VR starts each caller players with 10,000 and, of course, much tin beryllium won by playing different poker games. Players besides person the enactment to bargain much chips, arsenic is usually the lawsuit with escaped online oregon mobile poker apps.

Saturday and Sunday connection implicit a twelve events each, including Saturday’s 5 cardinal “dollar” Main Event and Sunday’s precocious roller event.

Not precisely similar the existent thing, but inactive fun

PokerStars VR has been astir for respective years and is disposable connected the Oculus Rift, Meta Quest 2, Meta Quest Pro, and HTC Vive (I besides deliberation archetypal Meta Quest users tin play it, but don’t punctuation maine connected that). As my lad has a Meta Quest 2, I person spent a fewer hours successful the PokerStars VR poker country and tin honestly accidental that it offers immoderate coagulated entertainment.

While I would fishy that the Metaverse Poker Tour games are a small different, don’t play PokerStars VR if you request a superior poker experience. Most radical successful the currency games, and to a lesser grade the tournaments, are conscionable determination to goof astir and astir don’t truly look similar they cognize what they are doing. If you similar games wherever astir of the players spot the flop, though, this is for you.

you tin peek astatine your cards, flip your cards into the muck, and manipulate your chips

Regardless of the crippled quality, it is beauteous neat to consciousness similar you are sitting astatine a existent table, looking astatine and talking with (if you opt to person your dependable chat on) each of your tablemates. Using the controllers, you tin peek astatine your cards, flip your cards into the muck, and manipulate your chips. There are besides loads of “throwables” and silly trinkets you tin play with astatine the array – I’ve had idiosyncratic walk a virtual brew to maine connected aggregate occasions.

As mentioned, the existent Metaverse Poker Tour halt is successful Macau, which is specifically the futuristic “Macau 2050” environment. PokerStars VR besides has the Macau Suite, Saloon, The Void, Monte Carlo, Arena, Space, Spies, and Cyber environments. As you would expect with a VR poker game, you tin besides outfit your avatar successful each sorts of “skins” and outfits.

New headset promises adjacent more

I person not had the accidental to effort it, arsenic the headset costs a whopping $1,500, but the caller Meta Quest Pro has PokerStars VR arsenic 1 of its motorboat titles. And it looks similar 1 of the caller features of the instrumentality would marque the Metaverse Poker Tour consciousness adjacent that overmuch cooler.

It people has much powerfulness and amended graphics capabilities than its much affordable predecessor, but it besides adds the quality to bash mixed world successful summation to virtual reality. With mixed reality, the existent satellite tin beryllium incorporated into the apps, alternatively of keeping you confined to the virtual satellite wrong the headset.

Much of the time, you privation to enactment wholly immersed successful VR, but for thing similar PokerStars VR, mixed world could beryllium truly fun. As Flutter Entertainment, the genitor institution of PokerStars, said, options include: “partial immersion that brings objects oregon spaces from their carnal satellite into the crippled done editable ‘passthrough windows’, and afloat mixed world that enables players to bring halfway virtual crippled elements into their ain world.”

From that, it sounds similar you could really beryllium astatine your room array (or a poker array if you person one) and spot the players, cards, and chips sitting astir the array with you. When you remainder your hands connected your real-life table, your virtual hands volition beryllium connected the PokerStars VR table. That perk costs $1,500, but if you are already readying to bargain the Meta Quest Pro, the PokerStars VR acquisition volition apt consciousness much real.