System: Valve Index, HTC Vive & Oculus Rift
Price at Time Of Review: Free
Comfort Rating: Red (Extreme Movement)
Genre: 360 Video and Animation
Input: Tracked Motion Controllers
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG
Description: Riding Away is an original song by Kathy Snax, a Boston-based musician who describes her music as “haunted electropop”. This song is a calm melody, with sweet vocals and a music keyboard that will make you relax and take you through the visuals of the city immersed in nature.
At Datawheel, we bring you original songs from new artists in unique visual experiences designed to match the mood, speed, and rhythm of every track we release. Lean into the movement. Experience the Video Clips of the 2020s with Datawheel.
Review: ‘Riding Away’ is a 4 minute long non-interactive 360°music video about getting out of your room and getting away. While it is far from the best VR music video I have ever seen the soft glowing red visuals help you feel relaxed and engrossed in both the music and visuals. I will pick holes in the terrible transition at about the 3-minute mark, it goes into a train tunnel, then fades to somewhere else when all the rest of the video is smooth flowing. It was as if the visual team ran out of ideas then. But I digress, it is rather peaceful, 100% free and well worth a look. As with all the other VR music videos from this developer, you will need your VR legs as the camera does swing and move about quite a bit.
