The Playroom VR

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October 2016

This is a free game that is only compatible with PlayStation VR. It has a few minigames - two of which are single player and the rest of which are local multiplayer. I didn't have a chance to play the multiplayer games during the short time I owned a PSVR, but I've heard they're pretty good. The person wearing the headet sees different things than the people playing on the TV, and fun times are had by all. Or so I'm led to believe.

There's a game called Robot Rescue that's pretty awesome and unfortunately short. The VR view is from a camera that follows around a little robot you control. You move around like in a regular platformer, but interact with the robot and invironment both with the controller and the headset. It was pretty fun to look around the colorful world, and ideally they'll make a full game out of the concept.

There is a sort of hub world in The PlayRoom VR where you can use coins you gather from playing the games. You start out in a fairly empty space but you can purchase more and more things for the room. It was pretty cool to feel like I was in another room with little robots everywhere, and it's pretty surreal to move your head in real life and be able to look more closely at everything around you. There were times when the camera couldn't track me very well in the room, but for the most part the VR worked fine.

A bunch of robots looking at you from the hub world.		You put your virtual controller into this slot to activate the crane game.
You insert your coins into this crane game thing and pick prizes.	Some little robots on the desk.	The game loads up into an empty void.
The robot rescue game.	Using the controller as a tether.	Brushing the foliage aside with my head.
	There's a giant slide at the end.