Village (Mobile VR)

VR Shop Score – Silver Award

Requires Android: 4.4 and up
Price at Time Of Review: Free
Comfort Rating: Yellow (Mild Movement)
File Size: 50 MB
Input: Other
Best Playing Position: Sitting, Standing
Multi-Player: No
Age Rating: PG

Description: Bring yourself to the streets of a colourful cartoon village! This app depicts a fully 3D scene of a small stylized village with peaceful workers and farmers.

You can change the following settings:

– custom time of day (with an option to follow the current time of day);
– all 4 seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn;
– different camera modes and speed;
– customizable characters, butterflies and effects;
– head-tracking using gyroscope;
– fish-eye view to adjust view for lenses of VR headset.

Review: From the moment you enter the app you start to realise size is a weird issue in VR. You feel like a giant looking down on the animated villagers walking aimlessly around the place and this is because size is something that is hard to work out while making a VR world on a flat PC screen. You used to walk around at your own will, but now you click the magnet button to walk to the next point of interest. Kind of like Mast. Everything looks great, sounds great and the app moves along rather smoothly. If you want something to do you could do far worse than play with this app. Both the windmill and the smoking chimney pots are nice points of interest.