Guided Meditation VR

「Guided Meditation VR on Oculus Quest」と比べてショボすぎ。値段は変わらないのに差がヒドい。

I live in Sweden. We have long and dark winters. I also suffered from depression and anxiety from my extremely heavy workload. This is often the place I resort to relax myself. Tried to spend some time in the selected environment to meditate a bit. The meditation narrative is limited. So you can instead independently play your own meditation guide, or like me just meditate yourself if you don't need a guide. The radio function doesn't seem to work in Sweden. Can't imagine these 10-20 min sessions iterated to 18.4 hour already.

Most impressive graphics I have seen in VR so far. Really pretty environments. Cons: Really weird and clunky non-standard teleportation control scheme. Voice over often tells me to close my eyes. WTF, I'm using $1000 hardware to be immersed in a beautifully rendered 3D environment with 6 DOF...and you're telling to me experience it exactly like an mp3 file I could download for free off the internet and listen to with $2 headphones? This contributes to the impression that they just got a bunch of guided meditation tracks and slapped them together with cool 3D environments, without any thoughts of creating any sort of unified experience. Which is ok... It's really cool to have gorgeous environments to meditate in. So if that's what you want, it's pretty worth it.

This review was written after experiencing about 30 minutes of the "game". I did the introduction which was really cool. Some of the environments were familiar in feel to me and brought back memories of real life adventures. Drifting into the Redwoods almost made me cry happy tears, well it did actually. anyway I did a guided mediation and found it to be very relaxing. When the guided part finishes, I think you kind of do laps of the environment which is big enough to leave me guessing it was doing slow laps, but idk for sure. You get to pick your environments and music and meditation type. Although the visuals aren't perfect in every way, they are most certainly adequate for a lovely experience. Picky things that I noticed were that wild flowers are kind of 2-D flat and some trees on hillsides aren't growing toward the sun perfectly. The fact that I am being that picky though, is because the overall effect is stunning. I loved it and definitely recommend it to others. I did the Arborialis/movement choices. Although it's likely not part of the designers intent, I kept wishing that after the guided part an occasional pack of arctic wolves, herd of caribou or some other signs of life would pass by, like in the under water one with turtles and fish. Seeing a couple of non-hibernating animals will go respectfully onto my wish list to the makers.

This is very well done and the best app I found so far. If allow you to choose you environment from maybe 20 (-ish?), then you select your meditation theme, and most themes have about 10 meditations to choose from in 2, 5 or 10 minutes formats. (Some theme are more limited or have fewer sessions) You can then select the music from maybe 25(-ish?) choices as well. Everything but selecting an environment is optional. On the Index, you can use the thumbstick to teleport to a random location, or use the trigger to teleport to where you are pointing, HalfLife Alyx style, but also with the ability to choose your height if you want to float above the ground. The visual are very colorful. Think Valheim or Fortnite... well just look at the videos, really. The menus are incredibly well polished and the navigation is intuitive and pleasant to use. The negative things: The graphics, even at high, lack a bit of details for what I would have liked. Again, it reminded me of Valheim. Apparebtly newer environment are better but I have yet to try them. I wish all the voice actors would record each session so we could choose the voice we want for a session. There is currently no option to change a voice. Each type of medidation have their own, fix, voice. So if you want a male voice for the maternity meditation series, it is currently not an option. Personnally, I wish they had a female voice with a slight ASMR vibe too. But that's just personnal preference. The teleportation with the stick is random. Seems like any input on the stick sends you to a random location. It would be good to have a way to go back. Like LeftStick would go back to the previous locations. Sometime I would quickly jump to find a good spot only to "zap" too quickly and being unable to go back. It did become unresponsive (only once) halfway during the "Introduction" (which is just a preview of all environments), but I had zero issues using it to meditate so far. In conclusion: I got a game during a sale. I feel I stole it. This game absolutely worth its full price. Unless I missed something, this is, by far, the leader in VR meditation.

I started this game in 2019. I used it during a family tragedy and it saved my life. I can't say enough positive about it. I have used it in Steam with the Valve Index and now for quite a while on Oculus Quest 2. I use it every day during Yoga and while I am doing cardio on my stationary bike. On Steam it is a very heavy program and if your PC is not maximized, it will not work well and often crash. Sadly for such an breakthrough creation at the time, it also seems unfinished. My guess is that they stopped developing for Steam and worked really hard on the one for Oculus. The scenery on Oculus is much more refined and is gorgeous, but I miss the fact the you cannot explore on Oculus as you can with this version. I would pay a lot more to see this Steam Version updated and refined, I would pay for add-ons etc. I still do not like subscriptions, but let's just say that I would pay for each updated scene separately, because there is a handful of scenes that I absolutely love. Meditation-wise they are fantastic and unique. People ask on Oculus which they should choose between this program and Tripp. I would say I still prefer this Guided Meditation VR because the scenery is full of light, it is a pleasure and a relief to use it before or after a day's work. Tripp's visuals are way too dark and a bit gaudy. The meditations are varied, not the same again and again, but of all styles. On Quest you have more Meditation choices.I would still recommend this program on Steam, only if you have a good PC system. For Meta, I have actually tested these games, and I would say despite the fact that it is obvious that the game has been sort of abandoned by the developers (?), it is one of the best VR breakthrough creations so far when it comes to experiences. Again, I don't know where I would be without it during our family tragedy, but it sustained me and offered that little bit of space for me to survive. Thank you Ninja Cubicles!

This program is pretty good. I appreciate that the developers seem to utilise feedback. One thing I would like to add would be guided imagery style mindfulness meditations that sync with the VR surroundings. I understand that there are so many different types of meditations, it's impossible to include them all. Personally, I think VR provides an especially cool opportunity for mindfulness type meditations(or any kind of guided imagery meditation, really!) and I would love if if could be incorporated.

The game didn't respect the "Music volume" option because it kept playing the music even though I disabled it. It immediately starts moving you which made me sick and there was no option to disable this. I tried maybe four or five times to boot up the game before it _finally_ figured out I had controllers. All together a dreadful experience. 1/10 because the environments in the trailer look nice.