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There’s something surprisingly enjoyable about looking around and seeing Bowser’s giant, offended face bearing down at you want a stampeding bull with a steroid addiction.
That’s the situation I discovered myself in once I tried Mario Kart VR in a London arcade for the primary time — and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Here’s the way it worked:
Four driving seats with steering wheels and pedals are arrange within the arcade. I climbed into seat number 4 and was fitted with tracking sensors on my hands and an HTC Vive headset with headphones. Almost immediately I used to be transformed. Gone were my familiar hands on the wheel — of their place, large green mitts. I had change into Yoshi.
As I moved my head, I could go searching the virtual world. I looked to my left and saw the opposite players (mostly journalists also attending the launch event) looking around too — or a minimum of, I watched as Peach, Luigi and Mario looked around.
I prepared for the race to begin, but before the lights turned green two larger characters barged their option to the front of the queue, conceited cackles in tow. It was Bowser and Mario’s evil counterpart, Wario.
As the lights turned from red to green I slammed my foot down on the accelerator, determined to beat the cheating duo. The thing is though, if you play Mario Kart in your TV at home, Bowser looks like nothing greater than a rather bulky nuisance. As I watched him in his giant vehicle barge past me, his immense frame towering above me, taking him on was a somewhat more daunting idea.
I suppose I owe the smaller characters an apology for the years I’ve forced them to race up against gargantuan monsters, armed with nothing but a banana skin. Only now do I realize what I put them through.
Banana skins do, in fact, make an appearance. Only now, they hang above the racetrack so that you can physically reach up and take one down before hurling it to the track. The same goes for green shells (chuck them at your rivals) and red hammers (smash them to bits).
Players were fitted with tracking sensors on their hands and an HTC Vive headset with headphones.
Mario Kart has been a staple of many individuals’s living rooms for years, but VR has given it a brand new twist. It’s been made much more immersive by the addition of proper racing wheels, pedals and mechanized seats that buck and jiggle.
And it’s that immersion that VR has promised all along, but has never quite managed to deliver at home. This wasn’t just me playing a little bit of Mario Kart. I felt like I used to be Yoshi, face-to-face against the opposite characters. It’s an immensely fun experience, and that is exactly what VR needs to be — an experience.
I actually have an HTC Vive set at home, however it’s rarely used. The home shouldn’t be where VR is at its best. I’m endlessly knocking over the tracking sensors in my lounge. But here, in a correct arcade, it shines. There’s enough room for it to work properly and, importantly, there are technicians readily available to do all of the busy stuff, leaving you to benefit from the ride.
Enjoying VR as an experience is amazing. I still see huge potential within the platform for each gaming in arcades and educating in schools. But it’s now not something I’m enthusiastic about owning.
In the UK you will find Mario Kart VR within the arcade inside Hollywood Bowl on the O2 in London. It’s also going to be arrange in arcades in Leeds and Tunbridge Wells. Outside of the UK it’s available in Japan, but whether it reaches US or Australian shores is not yet clear.
I do not encourage you to spend a whole lot on a Vive headset, not to say the hundreds you’ll have for a gaming rig. However, should you end up near an arcade that has Mario Kart VR arrange, I absolutely urge you to present it a spin at any cost. I promise the slight VR nausea will pass.
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