Elixir

Elixir

released on May 22, 2020

Elixir

released on May 22, 2020

Elixir is seeking an experienced lead sorceress's apprentice. You’ll join our team located somewhere in the nether world to feed, wash, and document mysterious creatures (applicants inexperienced with dragon vomit need not apply). The apprentice will also maintain various delicate contraptions while experimenting in an unstable alchemy lab. Constant praise of the sorceress's brilliance is expected.


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Cool for hand tracking. That’s all

Super short but fun hand tracking tech demo

Elixir itself is a very short, sort of awkwardly narrated experience where you touch buttons and move your hands around.

It's INCREDIBLE what they did here on this hardware.

For 300 dollars you can get a headset that tracks successfully 99% of the time, wirelessly play most of the great VR titles out there without additional hardware and can relatively smoothly play wirelessly on all PCVR platforms or for more guaranteed quality, hook it up for an additional 90 dollars. It also integrates now the successes of the Leap Motion and similar devices for no additional cost and without most of its downfalls. Fuck facebook, meta, whatever, but I cannot stress enough if you're remotely interested in VR, this is the headset to go for.

This is the first thing in roughly 6 or 7 years of VR that has brought me to those initial peaks, triggering something in me akin to gender euphoria, but just by overlaying my hands with weird tentacles that move semi believably with my largely precise hand gestures. It's insane how well it works. And it's not even perfect. I imagine with some lightweight haptic VR gloves to add additional tracking capability and presence to the tech, it would be perfect. I hope that by being integrated in the core hardware and oculus being pushed hard that we see a lot of other devs gain access and incorporate it, even if not totally into their own projects. Truly stunning.

this game was honestly very underwhelming, the first game to have vr hand tracking technology could be cool but firstly its super short, this game feels more like a tech demo than anything, and i dont feel the hand tracking was used well or done well, you cant do alot interesting in this game and there were at times where using my hands was pretty finicky, overall pretty dissapointed cause this game sounded pretty cool