Разработчик: Orbital Views
Описание
OVERVIEW is a spectacular experience that will leave you in awe.
Using scientific data and featuring spectacular cinematic sequences, this interactive documentary can be enjoyed by people of all ages for education and entertainment.
Key Features
- 30+ min of cinematic narration taking you from Earth to the Cosmic Web
- Photorealistic imagery using data from NASA, ESA and other agencies
- Live model of the Solar System with all planets, moons, comets and asteroids
Space activities
OVERVIEW also includes activities that are regularly improved and updated:
- “Scale of our Universe” allows you to zoom all the way from Earth to our galaxy and beyond.
- “Explore the Solar System” is a free-roaming exploration of the eight planets that make up our neighborhood in space, along with hundreds of their moons and thousands of comets and asteroids.
“Best Education Experience”, Viveport Developer Awards 2018
French version narrated by Jean-François Clervoy, ESA astronaut who spent 28 days in space working on the Hubble telescope.
Made in partnership with the French Astronomy Association.
Powered by SpaceEngine.
Available for Arcades on SpringboardVR.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, simplified chinese, german
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: i5 equivalent or greater
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 980 equivalent or better
- Storage: 1000 MB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR or Oculus PC
- Additional Notes: Please set your Windows Power Plan to "High performance"
Отзывы пользователей
This is the greatest VR experience to date.
Amazing, immersive, informative. I watched the first chapter out of curiosity and found myself watching the whole thing. I'm now annoying the crap out of everyone telling them to watch this.
The elderly rellies have also been gobsmacked by it.
Do yourself a favour and grab this. I picked it up on special and I almost feel guilty that something as well crafted as this was available at such a low price. This is a must-have in anyone's collection, worthy at whatever price its on sale for.
Congrats to the devs ... this is a work of art.
HP Reverb G2 VR headset, GTX1080Ti. Initial setup did not present problems. Set for ULTRA and major graphic problems near the end of the journey. Need to wind back the graphics setting and try again.
FIRST PLAY THROUGH:
I sat down to be entertained and guided through a journey of the Universe...
The first two chapters I had to turn my head left 120° while sitting and lean back to even see what was supposed to be the center of attention about 1 centimeter from my virtual nose!
Next chapter was sufferable in that the center of attention was 45° to my right.
The next chapters I could not even see what was being described with doing an "OWL"
Yeah, nice concept but needs A LOT OF WORK.
Very cool VR experience. Gives you a tour of the solar system and a bit more. I wish it was longer, but it is incredibly cool if you're a space geek.
This experience has so much potential, but it looks extremely bad. The milkyway and the local group looks like 1990s sprites attached to an invisible surface. Everything looks so... flat. The perspective makes every object feel like a toy in a sandbox. There is no feeling of being small, no awesome moment.
I saw Let's Plays which showed free roam around the milkyway. Moving on the surface of a near planet. But where is everything? I have the feeling of playing VR Regatta: 3 crappy islands, and everything you see in the beginning is everything you can reach at the end.
To cut a long story short: You can zoom in, and you can zoom out. That's it. Movement in the solar system? Yes. But why? As soon as you approach a planet, it creates a kind of instance with a fixed scale, without the opportunity to move close to a moon... because it's too small compared with the planet. If you zoom in, your eyes cannot focus it.
The first 2 videos you can watch on the shop site, show the whole experience.
I purchased the app on sale (70% off), but I will ask for a refund.
What a great VR experience! Flying around the Solar System to scale. Seeing all the moons of all the planets in context. Amazing. Never thought I would ever see such a thing and be able to show it to my family and two young boys. Zooming out of the plane of the Milky Way into intergalactic space with the Solar System embedded deep deep deep below! Awe inspiring.
Breath-taking! I'm speechless. This app really takes you on a ride outside our galaxy. It's very informative, beautiful and relaxing. I just which they had more episodes for the documentary.
Engaging in the activities and navigating around the solar system (and beyond) was buggy at best. There was a real lack of realism when it came to the planets besides Earth. I was expecting so much more. Frankly, this should be free - waste of money.
This should have more than Mixed review. It's really interesting, even going to the planetarium cannot show the scale of the universe as much as this one do.
I had problem with it when I had my vive and a RX480, but with the index and a 2070 super, it's really smooth.
I recommend it.
I am a huge space fan but I would say that this experience is probably not worth $10 for most people. It's short, a little rough in it's execution, and doesn't really offer much that you can't get from a much more expansive platform like universe sandbox. The view of Saturn was particularly nice I must say.
If you have Elite, that game already gives a sense of scale, and better than this one. This game has no point of reference for those who get motion sick so this is also a rather motion-intense experience,.
I am reposting this from a review I wrote on Reddit last week: I saw the the title of Overview in the Steam Store and added it to my wish list a few weeks back. Most people may have heard about the overview effect that astronauts all share when they look down at the earth from so far away and it makes them realize how small we are in the grand scheme of things. So. when it was on sale recently I grabbed it and was excited to try it.
It’s basically a single sequence that lasts about 30 minutes with another explore our solar system feature as well (which is good but underwhelming if I’m honest). The sequence is the star of the show but it too starts s bit slow. At first I found myself a bit disappointed- sure the graphics were gorgeous but it just wasn’t thrilling to me-I wanted the earth to be bigger in my perspective. I was missing the point I suppose!
If you’ve ever watched and enjoyed Breaking bad you can appreciate the slow build concept. No show did it better IMHO with the crescendo happening in the last few episodes and really packing a wallop. This app is the same. It really starts to build with chapter 5 - the Milky Way. The sense of scale and the soundtrack both hit me that by the end I was overwhelmed. The credit sequence is in my opinion worth the price of admission alone. I got goosebumps at the end of the story and the credits went on for about 3 minutes and I still had the goosebumps at the end of them. Just... wow. I think I totally experienced the Overview effect- and that’s not a joke. Very profound feeling.
Did I mention I watched this on Ultra graphics setting with an Odyssey+. I don’t think there is a better headset out there for this experience- the darkest of blacks are needed and the lack of SDE make it so stunning to watch.
If anyone you know has even a mild interest in space this makes a great demo app- just crank up the sound and let them at it.
I highly recommend this app. It is very short for the money so wait for a sale if you’re stretched for cash. I hope the app sells well though as I’d love to see what else they come up with! Hope you like it as much as I did.
A must have if you own a VR system. Launch it, select play all, put the controllers aside, and enjoy the ride. Sometimes I was walking around the room and looking at things up close, other times I would just lay down and look up. It's amazing. I've used it several times when I want to relax and clear my head. It makes you think a lot of crazy thoughts about time, life, distance, and our place in the cosmos.
$20 for this? They must be joking. This is not worth even $5. Despite their claim, there is no sense of real scale; everything appears as if it were a miniature model. The narrator has a pleasant voice, but the script reads like a dry Wikipidea article. The pace is slow, the animations trivial, and the planet textures uninteresting.
I love the topic of outer space, but I bailed out of this "experience" after 10 minutes.
Experienced on the Oculus Rift
I have never felt more insignificant than I do now after having finished the story mode of this experience. If you're interested in space, then you already know about the vastness of the universe. However, it's one thing to know this and quite another to get to experience it first-hand through the power of VR.
You grow up and you're confined to your personal perception of the universe. That the earth is huge and the sun seems to be grandiose at the center of our universe. Yet it's but a speck in the galaxy and even smaller one in the universe. There's not much remarkable about our solar system or our place in the galaxy. The speed of light seems fast, but across these vast distances it seems to go at a snail's pace. It's well-illustrated here.
The power of gravity and space and time is never more abundantly clear. The story experience is 32 minutes long. It it an eye-opening experience to say the least. The visuals are top-notch and realistic. The ambient sounds are also nicely done. I think the narrators could have been voiced better although they do present very concise, an informative narrative to the experience.
Rate 9/10. I couldn't help but shed a tear at the end for my own insignificance and for that of all mankind and sit in awe of the vastness of the universe. No Gods or Kings, only man? No not even man. It may seem pricey, but it is not. You will want to share this with anybody who will listen/view, especially that religious nut relative you may have.
Brilliant - just like Space Engine, the platform this experience was built on. Anyone who's interested in space has to check this out. It has great narration and production values as well which is nice to see.
The only negative thing I have to say is that they failed to use autoexposure to make the experience as realistic as possible. In other words, if you look at real life photos from space, if the camera's pointed toward an object that's being lit up by the sun (or towards the sun itself) then you won't see the arc of the milky way/other stars in the background. One of the things that makes Space Engine the most realistic-looking space simulation out there is that it implemented auto-exposure properly so that, instead of it just looking like a simulation where you can be staring at the sun and still see the galaxy/nebulas etc. in the background, the visuals of Space Engine actually represent the starkly beautiful aesthetic of space.
Anyhow, I'm really glad to see the software put to such good use. Bring on Space Engine 1.0!
Fantastic experience and well recommended. Shame it doesn't last all that long. Here's hoping for some more content in the future. Well done devs! Made me laugh when the narrator said 'Earrrth' at the beginning. For a moment I thought he belched! lol
This program has amazing potential, but as of today, it is fairly disappointing. The programmed portion is informative, but I wanted to move around and zoom and rotate, but that is not possible. The final view of all of the known galaxies is amazing, but it is static: you cannot explore it, move through it, rotate it, zoom in and out. Frustrating. And the Explore portion is buggy and very limited.
I can see this as an amazing program some day. Just not today. Frustrating.
I really enjoyed the tour. It was breathtaking. I look eagerly forward to more content.
I would like to see more in the exploration mode. OK, I would like to see Space Engine in the exploration mode, right down to the gorgeous procedural planet surfaces. Seeing that SE's developer also worked on this project makes me hope for more of those visuals...
This is truly an IMAX quality experience delivered right into your home. The dev's deserve a standing ovation for their work on this, and I very much look forward to any more they may add to this title or whatever else they may put out in the future.
In the current VR market that unfortunately seems mostly populated by trash on a daily basis, it is wonderfully refreshing to find that single diamond as this Title certainly is. Put down your facebook, put down your social media and thoroughly enjoy this experience, you will not be disappointed. Thank you Orbital Views!
If you really want to deflate your ego this program will definitely put everything into focus. This makes you really understand how insignificant our little planet really is. We may think where the center of the universe but this will definitely let you know you are not. Extremely well done and you can lose yourself for many hours in this program looking at amazing things that we will never experience in our lifetime. Things like flying through the rings of Saturn are watching our earth changing from a night time to day from the Moon general location and even closer. After spending over an hour using and without any problems (that they have only scratched the surface) it is deftly worth the money and if you have any interest in space this is definitely a wonderful program to have in your library.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Orbital Views |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 23.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 72% положительных (61) |