Vistascapes VR Reviews

This, like a few other titles, has a 'double vision' issue so bad it makes me absolutely nauseous. So much so, that I am typing this 10 minutes after I have requested a refund and I am still feeling it. Yes, my rig can handle this program. i7-4790k, 16G DDR3, 8G MSI R9-390, SSD. Aside from the queasy, the sound delay from the fireworks was pretty cool! Still giving it a recommend. :)

I was very excited to see this at first as I had been eagerly awaiting a relaxing VR rain simulation, which seemed to be part of this package. I thought the other simulations in this set looked decent too. Sadly, I was very disappointed for a number of reasons and definitely wouldn't recommend this. - For a rain simulation, there was no rain audio whatsoever, and this is the best bit! - The devs included a genuinely spooky horror message in what's meant to be a relaxation app, which is obviously the last thing you want in a relaxation app. I didn't hang around to find out if activating it triggered the worse events it implied. I think they were trying to be clever, but it's the wrong genre and target audience, folks. - General graphics quality is pretty bad; the rainy room was the best and it wasn't great. - General level of detail is pretty bad. - General audio quality is pretty bad. - Transition between rooms is very poor. You have to walk through a wall of solid 'water' into an unfinished area, and the app then puts you back briefly in the generic menu screen each time. - The instructions menu is full of typos that could have been avoided with a basic spell check - not a great start. Let me put it this way: The only reason I didn't get a refund here was so that I could leave a review to warn others.

I was really looking forward to this, the lobby area with metallic balls suspended in the air looks great but it's really all downhill from there. I could sit in Skytower and watch youtube videos or just chill. This, not so much. The environments aren't detailed and whilst the cost isn't great I wouldn't recommend

This is a nice relaxing little experience. I've been looking for this kind of thing in VR, especially the rain room, where I can sit in an environment and chill. I would love to see more titles like this. The developer is listening to the community and will be adding more scenes. The latest update improved the graphics and performance quite a bit.

I LOVE this. Its small, its inexpensive, and I've spent LOTS of time in the fireworks area. I have no idea why it says I've only been in for .7 hours...I easily have been in watching just the fireworks longer than that. The woods..I had fun crawling on the ground through the plants...I'm sure I looked like an idiot in RL..whatever. The cabin...sitting in there is easy to forget I live in the city while watching the rain on the windows. The mountain...I rather liked sitting on the edge and looking down...I have a fan blowing on me..added to the illusion..again, probably looked like an idiot... The lobby...surreal. laid down on my floor and just watched the orbs for a bit. Might try drinking and going into this place. The fireworks....I absolutely love being able to control the shells. That being said, one of the shells bogs my machine down...I'd love to see it optimized. I've got a GTX980ti, 16G RAM and I5 6700.

It's an ok experience for that price. Basically you get 4 places to explore if you don't include the starting place. As for gaming goes, there's absolutly nothing to do in these places except for launching fireworks in one of them. However, the fireworks were really well made with good sounds and visuals, and made it a joy to watch. I thought all scenes seemed a bit empty, with few details and things to look at. If it would had provided better details overall, like in one scene you can see the raindrops moving down the window, it could have been a very nice experience, but the world seems very empty and static. It still delivers good sounds and who doesn't find sitting in a cabin in the woods, while the rain is pooring outside, relaxing? You basically get what you're paying for, and for that price you really can't complain over what you get.

To be honest, when I looked at the negative reviews prior to buying this title, I thought that they were simple expecting too much from a not-even $3 program, and were disappointed when they didn't get a lot, but quite frankly, this is really not that great. The developers seem to be under the illusion that the shortcuts that work on a regular monitor - such as using low-poly meshes with a texture slapped on them, or making bushes out of multiple flat textures - will still be ok in VR when they simply won't. The mountain and forest areas are jokes. These are where those problems stand out the most. It's very easy to see the flat planes of the bushes and trees, and the fact that very little time was put into the ground or anything more than the immediately visible environment. Seriously, if you teleport to the ledge in the mountain scene, the view below you is pretty much a green, vaguely-mountain-shaped blob. Admittedly, though, the fireworks area is sorta fun to play around in, but the fireworks are entirely manual, so if you stop pressing buttons, they stop coming. I do like the rainy area, though. They seemed to actually pay attention to this area(mostly). The objects have a high enough poly count to not look boxy, and there are actually quite a few objects around the room, all with good detail to them, and it makes it feel like a believable space. Two complaints I have about it though, are the fact that the rain sound is the same volume regardless of your distance from the window, while the fire volume is determined by proximity, making it hard to hear the fire at all unless you're right next to it, and the fact that the rain itself falls very slowly. I don't expect much out of rain, but if I can track three different drops simultaneously as they fall to the ground, it's falling too slow. Overall, if you are very specfically looking for a VR experience where you can sit and listen to rain and a crackling fire in a semi-believable environment, then go ahead and grab this app. If you are looking for something to interact with or move around a lot in, go find something else. If you are looking for a place to sit and look around at nice views, go find something else. If you are looking for pretty much anything other than the rain-and-fire thing, go find something else.

I really really loved the fireworks. So much attention to detail. The sound was off to compensate for the speed of sound. Just wonderful. A few performance issues here and there but definitely worth the money.

I like those calm VR experiences where you just walk around and enjoy a nice scenery and I would also be willing to pay something for it if it is well made. But since we have Destinations, the Lab and a lot of other free scenery apps, like the master of them all Google Earth, a tech demo like Vistacapes VR falls short. I bought it on sale for 50 cents and do not regret it since I just like having games in my collection anyways, but for non-collectors I can say, save your money and enjoy the mentionned programs which deliver so much more content and perfection. Unfortunately not recommended. [i] Twitch Channel : https://www.twitch.tv/mrorange55 Youtube Channel : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1UE5TPoF0HX0HVpF_E4uPQ/videos?view_as=subscriber [/i]

I'm sorry but this experience is very small and not as nice as in the trailer. Maybe it will be developed in the future but for now it is not worth paying money for. Sorry