Virtual Reality is the replication of a natural environment and simulation of the user’s physical presence in this environment using software and hardware.
Advantages Of VR Gaming
To play VR games, you must utilise your entire body. Rather than sitting and watching the screen, VR gaming requires you to use your entire body while playing. Sports and adventure games are more entertaining to play. While playing, you can punch, slice, or swipe with genuine physical effort. It’s a great way to exercise and burn calories while having fun.
VR gaming is a terrific way to relax and escape constant stress and anxiety, even if only for a short time. According to research, virtual reality gaming can help people relax their minds and bodies. If you have children, it is also an ideal pastime for family bonding and a definite way to have fun with friends in the gaming arena. The immersive gaming environment gives a new experience and allows our brains to wander. It aids our brains in solving difficulties creatively.
VR accessories used in games
To involve complete immersion, all the senses and movements of the body should be applied. The VR accessories are required to enjoy the game in a different realm.
1. Virtual Reality Cameras
VR cameras are used to capture or make 3D videos. The VR camera works 180 and 360 degrees capturing a multi-dimensional story. They give a new dimension and perspective to images and videos, making them look natural.
2. VR Controllers
VR Controllers are used to manipulating the environment in which players are engaged. The controllers can be worn on hands, feet or any body part.
3. Hand VR Controllers
These controllers are, as the name suggests, controlled by your hands. It can be used to track motion, gesture interface technology etc. The hand controllers can sense the movements of the hands and transmit energy to make the experience more authentic.
4. Foot VR Controllers
Feet-based controllers are used to track motion and impulses as hand controllers do.
5. VR Suits
A Virtual Reality Suit allows for full-body tracking using sensors. It has haptics that can be used to control a part of the body like the upper, lower or the entire body. The VR Suit helps to immerse the player and experience sensations, touch objects in the virtual world, and feel the weight and roughness from the first-hand experience. Some suites come with sensors that can track the emotional level of the player.
6. VR Gloves
The Virtual Reality gloves help you use your hands to control the environment and touch them as one does in the real world. It has multi-angle finger tracking that can be used inside the VR system. These gloves can be connected through a cable or Bluetooth.
7. VR Chairs
With technology, you can now sit on a chair and be teleported to the virtual world. The headsets allow you to move on the upper part of the body; however, with the chairs, you can move the entire body. These chairs come with a footplate, and the player presses the footplate to move. This allows the player to move freely while seated and connects them to the in-game actions like driving a virtual car, performing simulated gaming flying and driving postures, space flights, aerial experiences and much more. It also doesn’t make you nauseous even while turning the head 360 degrees.
8. VR Treadmills
VR Treadmills allow the learner or user to walk/run/jump/fly in any direction or 360 degrees in the imaginary environment; Virtual Reality treadmills are utilised for training as well as gaming or 360 degrees VR navigations. It is made of plastic where the player straps themselves using a harness and wears shoes for greater accuracy and simulation. Some new VR Treadmills allow you to run at the top speed or jump in your virtual reality world freely without any barriers.
9. VR Masks and Glasses
Virtual Reality Masks make the entire experience real through simulations like vibrations, making you feel the rain, fresh air etc. It also allows you to smell the objects. The VR glasses are used to trick the human senses into believing what is happening in the virtual world is happening simultaneously in the real world.
10. Other Body Controllers
The leap motion allows the person to control the game by just waving his hands. It is a unique and small portable box controller that is connected to the PC with a USB cable. The leap motion can be used in all VR devices.
With the advent of VR in gaming, an enriched gaming environment with new elements, a better Virtual world experience, better interaction ways, and possibilities with the game arena can be seen. Games like indoor golf simulators have made virtual objects look more appealing when interacting with VR consoles.