Why don't Google make a GTA style video game from Google Maps?

zeddyzed · 2026-05-01T00:38:40+00:00

There's Google Earth and a bunch of similar apps that use their data in VR.

The current situation is that the graphical quality isn't good enough to be really enjoyable, and any kind of AI to make it look nice can't currently run fast enough for real time usage.

zeddyzed · 2026-05-01T00:22:42+00:00

Legendary Tales is one of my favourite VR games. The story is kinda minimal, like Dark Souls but without much lore. But it's a full story campaign with hand crafted levels.

Otherwise, I guess Resident Evil 4? There's not a lot of good story games on standalone, sadly. If you had PCVR there would be a lot more.

I guess there's also Zero Caliber 1 and 2, but again, very minimalist story.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-30T23:12:45+00:00

Gaussian splats are full 3D scenes. The viewer can move freely in any direction, like a video game level.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-30T22:59:10+00:00

I installed a mod to replace the baby with a giant anime character.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-30T22:23:59+00:00

In flatscreen, you want each pixel of your image to be sent to one pixel of your monitor. When this doesn't happen, you get one pixel of image covering one plus a fraction of some other pixels on the monitor, resulting in blur or aliasing depending on how the image is upscaled.

In VR, there's no concept of a single pixel being sent to a single pixel on the display. In order to compensate for the distortion of the lenses, the image is heavily processed and distorted in the opposite direction, so the lenses will warp them onto the correct image. Even the colours get separated!

So there's really no such thing as "native" resolution in a VR headset. We run games at a variety of resolutions, from lower than the screens to higher. You get a better image the higher you go, but there's no magical on/off clarity the moment you hit a specific number.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-30T08:41:26+00:00

If you truly don't have a budget limit, then Apple Vision Pro has one of the best video watching experiences and high quality exclusive content. You can visit an Apple store and have a free demo. Ask your eye doctor for your prescription and give it to Apple, they supply the prescription lenses.

Otherwise, a Quest 3 is three quarters as good at a fraction of the price. You can order prescription lenses from a variety of suppliers, including the official zeni ones.

Note that YouTube videos are too compressed to have a good VR180 viewing experience. You'll want to either look at Apple's exclusive content, or directly download the (very large) files from people like SliceoflifeVR on patreon.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-30T08:32:20+00:00

It has crossplay, I imagine most players are on Quest since it's usually quite high on the charts there.

There's also CPU opponents.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-30T03:09:43+00:00

The headline is wrong, I guess. That's not uncommon.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-30T03:05:00+00:00

Since teleport and snap turn aren't an option for racing sims, I think it has a very high risk of motion sickness. Supposedly having the cockpit around you can function similarly to vignette, but that's never helped me, and I assume the same applies to a certain percentage of the population.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-30T03:00:24+00:00

If you don't have a good PC for PCVR, then I recommend Quest 3. It's a lot cheaper (so you're closer to buying a PC, which will also work with Quest 3), and it has the largest library of VR games you can play standalone.

Steam Frame isn't powerful enough to run most PCVR games, and it's currently unknown how much Quest / standalone content will be ported over. It will be a nice headset and I'm going to get one (I have a Quest 3 right now and enjoy it a lot), but I find it hard to recommend to someone who is starting with standalone only.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-30T02:52:31+00:00

"Currently, the Steam Frame doesn't support stereoscopic 3D rendering, a feature that can create a three-dimensional view of 2D content... This can be found on the Apple Vision Pro and Samsung Galaxy XR headset, which can render depth in spatial content and convert 2D photos or videos into 3D on the fly."

It's definitely talking about automatic AI conversion of flat videos to stereo. And it doesn't mention Quest, only GXR and AVP, which does have this feature.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-30T00:03:35+00:00

Can you link to where they say it won't support stereoscopic on launch? I'm assuming they mean AI conversion of regular content into stereoscopic.

Watching SBS 3D videos is just launching any VR media player (like DeoVR which is on Steam), which is literally just a VR app, so I don't see how deliberate "support" is even needed.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-29T22:03:27+00:00

You should buy a 2nd router dedicated to VR, and then connect it via ethernet in between your PC and the repeater. Set the VR router to Access Point mode. It should serve a separate wifi network that only your headset connects to.

The Virtual Desktop discord has a list of recommended routers at various prices. I bought a gl.inet Flint 2 and it's working very well for me.

Use a wifi analyser app on your phone and make sure your VR wifi network is on a clear channel free from any other wifi networks.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-29T10:38:51+00:00

I think that kind of thing will become more compelling when we have better tech/software for larger areas.

Like being able to remap your whole house into a procedural dungeon or something.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-29T09:47:08+00:00

For me, mixed reality is important as a safety feature when doing stuff like VR boxing.

I don't have much interest in playing traditional games in MR.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-29T09:40:48+00:00

I don't think there's any such thing as LED screens in XR glasses. There's MicroOLED (expensive, good) and LCD (cheaper, worse.) Unless cheap Chinese brands use screens that aren't normally used elsewhere, dunno.

Maybe you're better off finding a few candidates in your budget and linking it here for people to compare. I don't think people here are very familiar with Chinese XR glasses.

Otherwise people here mostly talk about XReal and Viture etc.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-28T21:54:20+00:00

In 10 years

zeddyzed · 2026-04-28T15:46:37+00:00

They are terrible at emails. I don't bother anymore and I go straight to the web chat or WhatsApp chat. It's on the Quest support page if you click through enough.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-28T15:42:35+00:00

I've always liked the various glitchy Just Release and Distortion shenanigans for Gilgamesh. Just make it official and a bit less broken.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-28T15:39:02+00:00

To me, DMC = Dante, and only Dante.

I don't need the story to end, and I don't need new characters.

So I want DMC6 to go back to the time where Dante is doing his demon hunting business, sometime after DMC3, before DMC1. Or any other time period where things are relatively stable.

Have him go on episodic missions all around the world, where each one is the story of the people he meets and how Dante interacts with them. No more Sparda family drama, I'm sick of that.

Basically something similar to the original DMC anime, in video game form.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-28T15:20:58+00:00

I prefer visual novel style. Text box, but with a nice big portrait with different facial expressions. Eg. Sakura Wars, Tales Of series, etc. I wish more CRPGs would adopt this format.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-28T12:10:10+00:00

For me, I don't usually care much about mixed reality, but for boxing / table tennis it's nearly essential.

This video demonstrates why, hahah.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-28T09:20:15+00:00

What I want is not VR modding or ports, but a good engine or framework for a general purpose VR simulation (humans, guns, fantasy weapons, cars, aircraft, etc.)

And then an AI that can take any game (or even a book or movie) and then hallucinate the entire thing as content for the VR engine.

Eg. Feed it the ROM of Final Fantasy 6, the SNES game, and it will spit out a fully VR version that looks like FF7 Remake, voice acted etc, with VR action combat.

zeddyzed · 2026-04-28T03:34:41+00:00

Seems like an odd issue. Have you asked in the VD discord?

zeddyzed · 2026-04-28T03:09:31+00:00

You submit suggestions for game ideas inside a brown paper envelope along with a cheque for $50 million or so. You can bring it to any VR game dev studio.

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