心境 VR / Mind VR Exploration

Experienced on Windows Mixed Reality

You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/9hnwC882S2A

This is an approximately 15-20 minute long mostly cinematic experience running on the Unreal Engine. This is an educational app focused on Chinese history & culture. A small part of the experience is a 360 video, but most of it you'll just be teleporting from one spot to the other to do the selected activity involving very basic interactions.

You only have nodal teleportation. There is no smooth or snap turning, you must turn IRL. Unfortunately, the experience is not well optimized. On my 1060 GTX, I was getting variable frame rates from as high as 45 frames per second, to as low as 20 fps, and usually about 30 fps. This did effect gameplay as part of the experience has you doing calligraphy which was difficult because of the interaction not being polished, but also due to the low frame rates.

There are some very scenic moments and some nice tidbits of information about the history & culture of China. However, the performance issues really effected the experience for me. Since it's only $4 USD, I can give a very tepid recommendation to anyone interested in Chinese history or culture.

Rate 5.5/10.

Please note: I received a free Steam key through the Steam Curator connect program. You can join my Steam Curator Group here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Oculus_WMR

The good: This game is beautiful. And great if you want to learn about Chinese/Japanese culture and history.

The bad: This game is advertised as a relaxation game. The game menu on first load is not in english. The only thing that was in english, was Start. Most of the time when trying to turn my head with the controllers in VR, the game wanted to teleport me, which took away from the relaxing part, and made everything super frustrating. Once in Game, I could not figure out how to bring up the in-game menu, to change from teleporting, to walking.

IF AND only IF I could change to walking in the game, instead of teleporting could I recommend this game. And I would change my review to be more positive.

I don't know why, but this app doesn't like Oculus Quest 2.
I gave this a positive since it seems to play fine on other headsets and it's actually a beautifully made experience.
Took a couple restarts to get it running on my 32GB RAM, RTX 3070.
But when it works, it's gorgeous and so relaxing.
Still suffers from less than smooth framerate which sucks but I'm chalking that up to the fact that it's not optimized for the Ques 2.