SpaBerry VR Experience
This might still be the first and only hot tub VR experience. It’s not very stimulating. I enjoy a hot tub, don’t remember the last time I tried it. I’m also concious of how somewhat kinda sort gross they are. It’s like a bacteria stew or something.
! Also, you all pee in the pool and the shower and hot tubs so you can’t buy one from our friends at SpaBerry, not until you clean up your dingleberries. https://youtu.be/Jzap2bwZFho
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
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Experienced on the Oculus Rift with Touch Controllers
You do need to do a Windows 7 compatibility fix to get experience to run correctly on the Oculus RIft. It is an advertisement for the Spaberry spa. I had fun though, but not because it’s a good app, just because it’s kind of unintentionally funny. Whole thing is about 5 minutes long.
Please watch my video … I did have fun with it ;) https://youtu.be/Rzvn_XUzifk
Rate 5/10. Needs online or local multiplayer for truly sexy, fun time in the spa. Would give 10/10 if added.
– Real player with 0.6 hrs in game
SoundSelf: A Technodelic
tl;DR: I am genuinely amazed at how effective this “game” is at its stated goal of inducing transcendental states of consciousness. Was skeptical, but then profoundly amazed. Literally helped transform my consciousness. (More on what that even f***ing means down below.) It can have the same sort of power (and therefore danger) as psychedelics, be careful. Lay down or get a neck pillow with a HMD.
I have a lot of experience with meditation, hypnosis, LSD, mindfulness, and healing complex PTSD, so I did have some background in mental restructuring before going in. However, I didn’t take the claims or warnings seriously, I figured it was marketing fluff. “Ask my doctor? Don’t operate heavy machinery? What the hell, I mean, it’s just some computer program, how much could it really do to me? I’ve done heroic doses of acid, I’ve even done DMT man. I bet it’ll barely do anything outside of a placebo effect.”
– Real player with 108.0 hrs in game
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Tibetan Monk Simulator 2020
Seriously though, SoundSelf isn’t like any other “game” I’ve ever played. It’s not so much a game as a piece of software that’s designed to induce an altered state of consciousness. I don’t think it’s fair to liken it to a drug trip because it’s not like being high; it’s more like doing an extended meditation session but you don’t necessarily have to meditate for half an hour.
The visuals combined with the audio feedback and modulation of your own toning helps to lull your analytical mind into passivity so that you can enter a purer state of being. You can literally feel the shift in your consciousness as you slip into that meditative state. My opinion is that this is a fantastic tool for those that have been looking for a way to start a meditation practice or enhance one they already have. In my case it got me meditating again regularly after years of neglect.
– Real player with 34.1 hrs in game