This really seems to be the year of VR. Google has big plans for VR with Nougat rolling out soon as VR is actually built into this new version of Android will be called daydream and has strict requirements on the kind of hardware that's compatible with it but for the rest of us and more notably until Nougat gets its public release we still have cardboard VR. Now we have found a few VR games and experiences that we think people will find it useful.
VR Games
Age of Diamonds
Age of diamonds places you inside the familiar confines of a traditional breakout style game but there is no paddle board for you to control.
Instead the ball is placed inside an enclosed space with bricks of different colors and your head movements define the direction that the ball will bounce.
It's still ricochets off the walls and objects but tilting your head makes it move toward that direction as it does so.
It takes a little bit to get used to that control but not prohibitively long.
Each level has a few color control bricks to begin with when you hit them with the ball that allows you to use the ball to remove the rest of the bricks in that level of that particular color control.
The ball simply bounces off of the bricks of the other colors and doesn't remove them.
You'll also encounter diamond bricks which can only be removed once the colored bricks are all gone.
The playfield is a bit wide so you're going to be moving your head and broad strokes back and forth trying to get the timing just tried so you can remove the things that need removing well not reprogramming your ball at the wrong time.
In fact, you might be best to just sit in a swivel chair that might make it easier on your neck.
With 60 total levels age of diamonds will keep you busy for a while and its fun enough to keep you engaged but you're going to bust through those levels rather quickly no pun intended.
Bandit Six
Take to the skies during world war two is a gunman anchored on the back of a bomber that's the game called Bandit Six.
This game looks and plays impressively.
You look at the back of the plane while enemy planes and cargo ships fly around and most often toward you firing at your bomber trying to take you down now you being the gunman must fend them off and destroy them which takes a certain number of shots of course.
And with all that fast paced flying action it becomes a daunting task with each level.
Some enemies fly straight at you others fly and patterns that are harder to hit part of the trick of getting them just right is accounting for the distance of the enemies sometimes shooting ahead of them rather than pointing directly at them.
The sound effects are super effective and the gameplay gets pretty intense when you're surrounded by a wall of enemy planes.
Each level you scored based on your performance with the traditional three-star rating applied and there are 60 levels to work through but these levels take time particularly as you progress beyond that you can spend some time in the shop upgrading how your gun performs grabbing power ups and increasing your damage control.
City Defender
In City Defender you're suited up in your own robot body armor you're floating in the air as the city's first and only line of defense.
You are the only thing that stands between the city that's behind you that you're trying to protect and a full assault of damage doers out in the sea in front of you facing those enemies is up to you to block all types of incoming fire as directed at the city in an effort to keep it standing for as long as you possibly can.
Your hands hold a shield of sorts and an assortment of ships and gargantuan mech warriors will do their very best to throw artillery of all speeds and clusters your way in different formations and patterns to try and get him past you.
Simply move your head and that's going to reposition the shield and intercept hopefully as much of that fire as possible.
The action gets very quick throughout gameplay so it does become even harder to keep up the longer you play.
The city can take a shot maybe two but that's about it once it's over it's over.
The developers of the game recently added cardboard support so you aren't left out.
A Time in Space 2
This is not actually a game it's more of a VR experience it's called a time and space 2.
It's the sequel to the already impressive experience that propelled you into the immersive 3d world of outer space for the first time.
This time around a time and space to or Atis to as the app refers to itself you follow a floating robot named Ugo who takes you through a space station before everything starts to go to hell in a handbasket and your projected out into space inside your aircraft.
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