![]() Games’ answer to Team Fortress 2 and other class-based shooters, and its charm and unique take on the Batman IP made it worth playing on and off. It came from Monolith Productions, who are now preparing their return to the DC universe with an open-world Wonder Woman game. You can download Trials on Tatooine for free via Steam.The second “wait what?” pick of our list is Gotham City Impostors, a now-defunct online free-to-play FPS (first person shooter) that ran for a few years, starting in early 2012. Plus, it’s made by ILMxLAB, so you know it’s a quality experience. Trials on Tatooine is a short VR experience but one that does an excellent job at showcasing the potential of VR and Star Wars. As these “expert sharpshooters” open fire, you must use your new lightsaber to deflect lasers back at enemy troops. As a little token of appreciation, R2-D2 has a lightsaber for you, which comes in real handy as you’ll soon find yourself battling an onslaught of Stormtroopers. Somehow, you’re blind button-mashing works and you’ve fixed the Falcon. Han first instructs you to push a few specific buttons, but as the Empire finally touches down on the planet, you’re soon forced to frantically push buttons at random. This is where Trials on Tatooine sort of shifts into somewhat of a game. But you’d better hurry, the Empire is hot on Solo’s tail and he needs to get out of there quick! He needs your help fixing part of the landing great by pressing some super-important buttons. That’s when you hear Han Solo’s voice through the comlink. ![]() ![]() Once the Millennium Falcon is secure on the ground, the world’s greatest astromech droid, R2-D2, comes out from the ship to join you. Your head is looking straight up as the ship’s modified engines and thrusters gently drop the Falcon down on the stock YT-1300 freighter landing gear. Watching the iconic Star Wars ship slowly descend down to the landing pad is a literal dream come true. This VR experience begins with you standing near a landing pad on Tatooine as Han Solo and Chewbacca do a flyby before landing the Falcon right next to you. When it finally launched, I was completely blown away by the incredible visuals and convinced that VR and Star Wars were made for each other. It’s the freakin Millennium Falcon!Īs a Star Wars fanboy, Trials on Tatooine was a must-have VR experience. But here’s the thing, it’s not just any ship. As a matter of fact, your only interaction is looking at a ship and pressing a few buttons to fix it. First off, it’s a Star Wars experience created by ILMxLAB and it’s not actually a full-fledged game. Project Stardust should work with any SteamVR compatible headset and can be played on the Quest using the Oculus Link cable or Virtual Desktop connected to a VR capable PC. The research initiative is a team made up of myself and the director of the lab, Professor Rogelio Cardona-Rivera. The project is an ongoing research initiative at the University of Utah’s Laboratory for Quantitative Experience Design which is a joint lab between the School of Computing and Entertainment Arts & Engineering departments. During an interview with Dylan Stout, Software Engineer at Microsoft and Volunteer Research Engineer at the University of Utah, and creator of Project Stardust, Stout said, “We record a lot of telemetry about what the user experiences and quantify it in correlation with the VRS symptoms they experience,” adding, “The research is ongoing but preliminary findings reveal an interesting correlation between the number of reference points (or 3D objects) in a virtual scene and the amount of VR sickness symptoms experienced by users in high velocity scenarios.”
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