![]() ![]() ![]() You swing your arms in the real world to “walk” in the virtual one. One note I will add is that traversing through The Haunted Graveyard is accomplished with an arm-swinger mechanic. Each of these characters in the graveyard left an indelible mark on not just the person wearing the headset, but also family simply watching the world mirrored on a 2D screen. I’m reluctant to spoil more about The Haunted Graveyard (there’s a highlights video below which does that) except to say it is readily apparent the care and craft Holospark took to breathe life into three characters you’ll encounter in the graveyard - building on work Holospark did last year with its striking Seance demo. That last characteristic is the one The Haunted Graveyard manipulates so well, luring the visitor along a spooky path with interaction points along the way carefully staged for maximum…intimidation. Some incredible titles like Accounting+ and Virtual Virtual Reality are hardly games at all, yet they provide deep entertainment packing layer upon layer into a world waiting to be discovered by a mind that is inquisitive, playful and cautious. The better reviews on Steam for this experience give me hope that folks buying VR software are starting to learn they need to speak up when a world is as rich and surprising as this one, even if it’s only designed to last a few minutes. The Haunted Graveyard arrives two years later and Holospark is showing two years of maturity in its VR design. While we found the reactivity they baked into that world to be both subtle and relaxing, the Fantasia-like experience was dropped onto an unfeeling Steam mob interested in only one thing - hours of gameplay. Holospark took a gamble in launching its first VR title, The Impossible Travel Agency, in late 2016. The $10 world opened for Rift and Vive owners earlier this month and Holospark is also offering it at VR arcades. Reproducing the general feel of that iconic attraction is no easy feat - the floating candlesticks, echoey voices and memorable music - but Holospark achieved that goal with The Haunted Graveyard. The result of the effort is a cast of digital characters that invaded my personal space and maintained continuous eye contact in ways only a very dedicated cast member would at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. Startup Holospark deployed 32 Optitrack cameras to capture the body movements of performers along with helmets for facial capture. ![]()
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