XR Experience: Video Game Vehicle
Application name and platform
I watched “Video Game Vehicle” on the Within app using my cardboard VR headset. Two friends travel through a virtual driving machine hooked up to their car. It takes them through various video games where they encounter company. It was created by Sam Wickert and Eric Leigh.
Description
Watching the two friends insert video game CD’s into the machine as they encounter “bosses” or “company” showed how scale, surroundings, and scenery were used. Although it was short, it remained exciting the whole time from the bosses weapons shooting cars and buildings around you creating blocks and pieces being destroyed reflected on your screen. Speaking of scale, in a Super Mario Bros scene, his car acts like a character and gets larger while landing on a mushroom. It’s quite funny at the end of the video when the machine glitches causing smoke inside of the vehicle. They appear back at the beginning scene with a police officer asking them to step out of the car making a refrence that they were smoking weed.
Audience
At first I thought this could be an audience for kids and young adults, because of the Minecraft and Mario video game scenes they used as well as the playful nature to it, but I think it’s more towards a young adult and older audience because of the refrences to Coachella and weed at the end of the video. With that being said, these were innuendos, and not directly referenced.
XR Implementation
This is an experience of XR and VR. It is a 3DOF because I was sitting down using my Google Cardboard headset.
- Supporting Technologies: Oculus (Rift, Quest, Go), HTC, Sony PlayStation VR, iPhone, iPad and Android.
- Strengths: It’s free, easy to access and explore, and enjoyable even without a VR headset.
- Improvement: I think that there could be an easier way to adjust the volume of a video using the screen and buttons on your headset compared to doing it manually.
