Разработчик: Shape Space VR
Описание
Fly freely through a surreal maze of evolving sculptures. Take a break from reality and explore an animated psychedelic sculpture park. Wander through the labyrinth, soar across the open space, or just hang out and let the mesmerizing ever-changing sculptures provide a rejuvenating refuge for your mind. Blortasia combines art and flying in virtual reality.
Blortasia is a virtual reality art experience designed to engage the imagination and inspire wonder through shape, color, motion, sound, and spatial presence. Instead of recreating art from the real world, Blortasia explores virtual reality as an aesthetic medium in and of itself. Rather than telling a narrative story like a movie, or presenting objectives, puzzles, and challenges like a game, Blortasia transports you into an art installation unconstrained by the limits of ordinary reality.
Features
• Innovative Physics based VR navigation makes flying in Blortasia easy and comfortable even for most motion sensitive people.
• Blortasia's flowing designs provide a constantly evolving environment that's always unique.
• Hypnotic soundtrack fuses ancient and modern sound healing techniques.
• The abstract nature of Blortasia inspires the imagination through pareidolia.
• Psychedelic boogie board platform provides spatial reference and stability for surfing through Blortasia.
Flying is simple and intuitive.
Point the controller where you want to go and squeeze the trigger to accelerate.
Use one controller or combine them for increased speed and maneuverability.
Low, medium, and high speed modes and analog triggers provide smooth and precise control. Explore the space at your own pace.
Blortasia is created by artist and Academy Award winning visual effects pioneer, Kevin Mack.
Mack's work is inspired by transcendent visions, technology, nature, neuroscience, physics, and artificial life.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 SP1 or newer
- Processor: Intel i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 or greater
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 250 MB available space
- Sound Card: Any
- VR Support: SteamVR
Отзывы пользователей
Fabulous
Well if your inclinations happen to lie in that direction , You can now remove “Try LSD” from your bucket list.
Yes my friends, this is much safer than risking your health and safety experimenting with hallucinogens.
This was a crazy experience . You can’t tell from the previews but you can float right up to say a structure that is metamorphosizing between the shape of a watermelon and a liver , and get yourself a few inches away from said object and the resolution and detail is just crazy, Colors shifting and flowing into each other like colored oil and water mixing , and swirling.
I can hear the fans on my water cooled graphics card speeding up , so I am guessing you will need a decent rig to run this .
This is now one of my favorite things to show somebody what VR can do .
It’s also a masterpiece in modern art , on equal status with “The Night Cafe” an fabulous experience where you enter a Van Gogh painting.
This is one of the trippiest game I've ever played!
There are no objectives. There are no missions. There are no puzzles.
There's just this procedurally generated tubular labyrinth floating in the sky that looks like it's made out of wet paint morphing around like it's liquified.
You could maybe call it a maze but there's not exactly a singular exit you're supposed to find.
There are globs of paint-like goo floating around changing colors and patterns and then there are more complex structures that look spongey or molecular.
All you do is fly around inside and outside of it listening to the music and it's amazing.
The music sounds like throat singing and synthesizer but it also might have didgeridoo mixed in. It's the definition of droning. It lasts like twenty minutes then loops from the beginning.
Blortasia is an abstract artistic meditation on novelty. How you experience it is up to you.
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This is VR bliss.
You can fly pretty fast if you have both controllers on high, and squeeze both controllers at the same time. Just make sure they're both pointing in the same direction. Removing the standind platform will also allow you a litte more speed. Try flying out of one window and back in through another. Great fun!
Experienced on the Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality
You can view my review & gameplay here: https://youtu.be/oWSiLMCYJKg
This is a VR showcase for Kevin's Mack art piece Blortasia, which is basically a huge VR art sculpture. It's like a tie dye psychedelic trip with some ohmm sound track on repeat. You can fly around the sculpture and go inside and through it to see large or small shapes of ever-changing colors.
It's running on the Unity engine. There is no snap or smooth turning. You can't turn off the "ohmmm" soundtrack on repeat. I did enjoy this art piece, but I actually think that Blort (a mini-Blortasia experience on MoOR) is better. It seems this giant version has poorer textures and seems like it may be stretched out. The lighting isn't the best either.
I'm not an art critic, so I won't score this review. I enjoyed it, so I recommend it. However, I'm not sure how good a value proposition this is. The normal retail price of $7 seems a bit high for something you will probably enjoy for less than half an hour. I would say buy on sale. On the other hand, playing devil's advocate, putting a price on art seems like folly. This could be the Mona Lisa for all I know and I'm talking about how you probably won't enjoy it for more than 30 minutes and $7 USD seems too high.
Rate ?/10. Wish I could listen to my own tunes. I say buy on sale, I bought it for a little over $2 and that seems like a good deal to me for what I experienced. But then again, what do I know.
Very nice soothing and relaxing flight through the color space, my only gripe is the fact you can't use your controllers to turn left or right.
Perhaps later it would nice if Kevin could add some interaction with some of the color blobs.
What am I missing? Didn't it say on the voices of VR that those 'Blorts' are kinda reacting to you, as in AI?
Currently it's 'just' some colorful geometry in a Unity scene?
It's like a 'walls are breathing' acid trip thing (with some beautiful music) where you can float around in a blob that is sort of oozing coloured patterns. It's nice if you're looking for that and are in the right head space. A little creepy for kids since it's sort of pulsing dismal patterns and strange vocalisation. Anyway kind of a cool idea. Really liked the music.
totally worth the 5$!
imagine youre iron-man caught in some psychedelic trippy LSD dimension
very relaxing and distracting little VR game
the level isnt huge, but big enough to explore for half an hour or more
and since the shapes and patterns and colors are constantly moving and shifting, it doesnt get boring all that quick.
Blortasia is excellent for what it is, but I would really like to see a whole lot more options added. While I do thorougly enjoy it as is, I would love to see some more of Kevin Macks blorts in use as other worlds. Some of his other work done as sculptures seems more refined and elegant, and I would love to fly around inside those too!
Any yeeh the textures are quite pretty, but I could think of half a dozen other types of materials that would work just as well and greatly extend how long I would sit here and play with this.
Kevin if you're out there and bother reading these reviews, I'd love to see 10x the amount of content - even if that's in the form of Blortasia 2!
Very relaxing place to float around. It is a nice place to just "be" in and move around it. The flying mechanic worked, and doesn't make me sick. There is a huge sense of freedom with this. Also makes a nice demo for friends and such.
This isn't a game, but if you are looking for a nice thing to just experience, this is very enjoyable.
Absolutely worth $5. This is the tripiest media I have ever seen. This was one of the more amazing experiences I have had with VR. It will definitly be something will we be demoing to people and come back to for myself. Please make more experiences like this. I will thow money at you.
I am all for flying in VR through abstract shapes, but this is really barebones. And five dollars? That's just cynical. If you want to fly and glide in VR through dreamy landscapes, while weird music plays, for under ten bucks, go buy Lucid Trips for an experience that's ten times better.
Five bucks for this. For shame.
I read the rave reviews so though I would give it a try as it was only £3.99. Sadly I was left pretty dissapointed, It's not for me. I was hoping there would be more options or customisation but its just like flying around a big mixed paint blob in the sky. Nice textures and light effects plus the controller skins are cool but it seems nothing more than a basic tech demo to me. A 5 minute experience and not fun but that's just my opinion. It might be a bit better after a few pints or a smoke!
Blortasia is a really unique experience and exactly the kind of thing I hope we see more of in VR: art that is impossible to experience in any other medium. Definitely recommended for anyone who values unique experiences. Probably not recommended to anyone expecting a game or who values something by how many hours of content they get from it.
The flying has such a great feel to it. You can expertly move yourself around the crazy shapes, or quickly fly through the maze darting around corners - the controls and responsiveness just feels right
Has a trippy, meditative vibe.
At $5 this is a steal, I consider this a must buy for VR.
Some possible improvements:
- music choices
- option to fly even faster
What a fantastic experience for the HTC Vive. I played around 40 minutes on my first go and I am looking forward to trying it again. It gives me vertigo but not motion sickness.
Well done to the developers. You need to add collision detection.
Really good, trippy experience.
Music is well matched too but it loops after a while. No matter, awesome flying around to your own tunes too. Haptic feedback and some extra effects would be great but this is a great experience and brilliant demo material for $5
It's phenomenal. You get out of it exactly as much as you take.
If you judge VR content based on the effect it has upon you, and what it brings into your life, then Blortasia is worth $5 without a second thought. Sit in the centre of a deforming, living psychedelic sculpture and meditate, comfortable in the knowledge that this is just one of hundreds of many sculptures inside a world that presents itself in this way to only you.
The thing that I love so much about this is there isn't a point where you can fully wrap your mind around it. The harder you try, the more complex and massive everything becomes. Until your ego stops trying so hard to understand what's going on and you can just be.
10/10 worth the price of a sandwich.
This is hands down one of the most stunning VR experiences I've ever played. I originally tried Zen Parade (Mack's Galaxy Gear VR app) at VRLA, and my mind was blown. However, this..... this, is something else entirely. This near brought me to tears. Its so beautfiul, and feels like love. Do yourself a favor and go meet all the weird and unique entities you'll find in blortasia. Jesus its so good.
If you play this and dont love it, I think your a little dead inside .Its what Vr was designed for. Flying round the outside of the shapes is a seriously thrill. I could watch the small pieces morphing for hours. Please add more content and scenery. If you have ever had dreams where you can fly or float this is just like it . Thank you for producing this game.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Shape Space VR |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 86% положительных (42) |