Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Dec 24, 2021

  Truly amazing immersion! You really get the feeling that you're watching from the centre of the action and even though it's short, it's proper engrossing!! Loved the feeling of depth! So much better than regular 3d movies or other 360 videos i've watched before, I mean nothing has come close to this in terms of Vr video! Thoroughly enjoyed every second of the video and can't wait for more to this story or other projects that show off this tech!
• gamedeal user

  Dec 24, 2021

  Sure, many aspects of it are impressive but €2-3 and 30GB for an 8 minute tech demo is a bit hefty.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 26, 2021

  This is a very cool experience. It's a bit short (~8 minutes), but it's a great look at what the future of movies in VR could look like. I thought some of the camera transitions were a bit abrupt, and there was one point near the end where the camera was moved high into the sky, which I imagine would freak some people out (fear of heights). I also thought there was a lot of visual aliasing (pixelation). It might just be that my Index headset doesn't have good enough displays, although I was running at 150% supersampling and still noticed it a lot. It's strange because for something pre-rendered, I thought there would be no reason to see any visual artifacts like that. Overall, this is definitely worth the low price for a look at a potential future of media.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 31, 2021

  First, to explain what this product specifically is, its a 7 minute long VR movie. There is a lot of camera work that goes on in the movie so your position will be moved around suddenly and frequently. Its also about 20 gigs worth of a 7 minute movie. Is it worth the price tag? Honestly not entirely, but the concept is very interesting and I want to support it on that front. I like what this concept could become. To that end, some feedback: Whoever is doing the camera work, please stop changing the size of the viewer, its super weird to see characters suddenly changed into giants / you are suddenly changed into an ant during the movie. You can put our heads on the ground without changing the scale of our perspective to get the same effect. I would also recommend different watch modes, specially ones without all the heavy camera snapping to let us just roam the movie and watch it as we want. Interesting concept, hope it pans out to something bigger and more interesting some day.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 8, 2022

  This is the thing that I was waiting for since I played 'Welcome to Light Fields' from Google in 2018. It is nice to see fully immersed Volumetric Video is possible and real now. It does not have the perfect picture quality like the way that 'Welcome to Light Fields' demo introduced. Though, that was just a single frame. So, it is ok to have some compression or production artifacts and it has still way better picture quality comparing to the other 360 ​​mono or 180 stereoscoping videos that I've seen. I would normally consider this movie as a showcase for a new technology, so I wouldn't want to comment about the story and the filming style. But, It is so complete and better than my expectations that I will drop some notes here about the content as well. First of all the story was good as a short movie, the suprising ending makes you think about the future human life forms and possibilities. The animations, during fight scenes or emotional dialogues, they are almost flawless. Sound and voice acting is ok, as though nothing hurts the experience so far. Except one thing, camera positions and angles change as sudden jumps from one spot to another. For sure, if it was continuous move instead, it would be worse by causing motion sickness. So, the only flaw which I take care of is the lack of consistent transitions between different view angles. And, I assume this is a common problem for movies in VR. I consumed many 360 videos in VR, and some of them were long movies including one starred by Nicolas Cage. And, almost all have this lack of view comfort. They need to find a solution to this problem. I think this shouldn't be requiring another technological step anymore, rather, a new skillset on cinematography. I can imagine some simple solutions should work out for this problem: First, reducing the frequency of camera view changes at lest for the same scene, and keeping the distance between spots and view angle amount as small steps would simply work. Big camera changes should be less often. Yet, it would still be difficult to keep the audience looking targeted point of interest without crazily turning his or her head left and right. Alternatively, they could add some compensating interactivity for the player, such as having the ability of controlling the time as well. Imagine controlling the bullet time effects in the Matrix movie. Even a small range of control in time with pauses or rewinds would make the player engaged and this may eventually help not suffering from uncontrolled disorientations. After all, it is one of the best thing in VR so far.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 14, 2022

  This is the future! The technology on display is nothing short of breathtaking. This is a glimpse of the future! This gives the movie perfectly accurate scale and a much greater sense of immersion than 3D 360 video. And it played just fine on my 6 years old computer! The last time I was this impressed was the Tuscany demo, my first VR experience.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 18, 2022

  Uninspired storytelling, and a wasted opportunity to showcase something that couldn't be accomplished in real time on potent gaming hardware anno 2022.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 6, 2022

  i have a 3080 with a i91100 with 64gb of ram and this thing buffers like it's some dodgy streaming iptv. buffered about every second. the whole way through. lol the end result is worth it. download the demo st and you will see
• gamedeal user

  Mar 13, 2022

  Pretty cool, and I could see myself watching actual movies like this. It's not just a 360 video but actually volumetric. Would love to see more dynamic scenes, meaning a changing environment, and see if the system can cope with that, but this is a neat showcase of characters at least. Pro tip: Don't try to run this off of a mechanical drive, it'll buffer constantly! A standard SATA SSD worked fine though.
• gamedeal user

  May 16, 2022

  And even once more again ... I get my mind blown in VR : WoaaaaW !!! Standing Ovation !! Now I can never see normal movies the same again, I want to see all movies THIS WAY!!!!!!!! Amazing Job!!! And the low camera angles are MIND BENDING too...it is shocking the first time I saw it. Yes the movie is short but you are going for a wild ride : 11/10 Ultra recommended