The Marvellous Machine

15 minute experience (can sit down for all of it) You ride a cart really slowly through an underground tunnel full of steam punk graphics while the narrator talks about your thoughts, your reality, your past and future. Its like psychology 101 Not for everyone but if you want to expand your thinking a bit give it a try

Unfortunately the devs make it impossible to enjoy this experience by combining some strange decisions, thereby missing the mark by a few inches. Well done: - Hinting at important facts. Very polished graphics and animations. Theoretically(*) super good VR immersion. Bafflingly strange: - (*)80% of the environment's lighting is fading into blackness/dark mist - ergo: fly-screen optic effect in VR headsets present all the time. Strange anti-Immersion tactics. (In VR it's looking darker than here on the screenshots.) - The only nicely lit scene (representing the 'busy thought machinery' - using warm yellow-orange tones) preventing the fly-screen effect in VR is quickly changed into dark+black again! I was ready to enjoy this sight during its first state, but what was I hoping?! The devs had planned otherwise. Which leads to the next point: - Color and lighting symbolism has been twisted around weirdly. During the narration you're ought to realize, that you can perceive the world aro...

Thought provoking, profound and beautiful. Not only a wonderful ride through sumptuous visuals, but if you approach what is said with an open mind and listen then it's a stunning experience.

Very pretty and well optimised but I just didn't get much out of it personally. I was aware it's a short experience and I read the "how to the the most out of The Marvellous Machine" guide in advance, but it's not something I'd feel the need to experience a second time.

This was a beautiful experience. The graphics, lighting, scenery are amazing. It’s a slow moving roller coaster without any motion sickness side effects. It’s a short meditative experience that I may try from time to time if I’m in the mood after slaying zombies in other games. Good experience to show people who may not be into high tech or are scared of VR.

right now I would only recommend this if it was free. interesting concept and experience, reminded me of a guided meditation. But I think it is too short, just as I calmed my thoughts and became immersed in the experience, it was over. This would be great if it was a longer maybe in the 45-60 minute mark. The current 15 minutes do a great job of preparing you for an experience that doesn't happen For the devs: It would be interesting to see this a guided meditation in this style, but the experiences(and narrators subjects) would have to vary(maybe 8-10 meditations/experiences about an hour each). I think then this could be something you come back to, sit down switch off and relax your mind and thoughts for an hour while observing some interesting visuals

It’s a very pretty introduction to mindfulness. It’s quite short though, and I feel no need to repeat the experience after watching it once. Would perhaps recommend it if it was free, but for me it wasn’t worth paying for.

This thing is awesomely optimized, 90fps, with the finest lighting I've seen in ANY VR experience! It's real VR, not a 360 video. I was worried when I saw the great owl imagery on the doorway of the mind, because I feared I would soon be hypnotized in order to be programmed by the Illuminati. That kept me anxious and unable to let go during most of my trip. But that's just MY perception of reality. :) I liked it!

A beautifully detailed and thought provoking 15 minute experience (sitting in a carriage of sorts), where you listen about perspectives and experiences. Obviously I've enjoyed this quite a bit over the years and love to share it as a nice intro to VR for my friends and family. I really appreciate being able to change the resolution during the ride. I wouldn't call it a roller coaster as there is some time where you sit in a industrial, steampunk room while the narrator talks.

Here's what my thoughts think, what a load of garbage!!! It starts OK, you're at least moving along the track for a few seconds whilst the woman talks about your mind. Then you come to the cogs, the ride stops, the woman talks for what seemed like 10 minutes talking about how to look at things. Then it moves again, decides to speed up like it's trying to be a roller coaster for just a few seconds. It's like they didn't know what they wanted this to be. They should have made it a full on rollercoaster, not an explore your mind thing where the ride is sat still more than it moves. I could have been more forgiving had the ride kept moving along, but no, you're stopped for ages staring at cogs in wall. The environment's decent, so it should using the unreal engine. So my thoughts of the past are... I shouldn't have wasted my money on this, that's a negative thought but it's not a thought I'm going to forget. Avoid unless it's goes free, even then you'll die of boredom.