The technical compromises are so great as to make its sad magic splutter frequently, although it might yet to be the case that the finished and also Vive-compatible version can amp things up a little. 'The Chernobyl VR Project is meaty and ambitious, and definitely sets a precedent for this sort of thing: armchair tourism taken to a whole new level, and especially valuable when it works hard, as this does, to educate as well as stimulate. Well! Today brings the release of a Vive edition, along with an update adding more content and improving those videos.Īs a refresher, here's what Alec concluded about the early version he played on the Rift earlier this year:
It's split between photogrammetry-scanned environments and plain old 360-degree video, see, coming out a bit disjointed. He liked seeing inside that irradiated corner of Ukraine - known to Those Young People as the setting for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Alec wasn't entirely happy when we duct-taped him to a chair, bolted his Rift goggs to his skull and jacked him into a tour of Chernobyl and Pripyat with Chernobyl VR Project.
