Garage Drummer VR

Drummer here. So far every attempt at providing a drumming experience in VR has been a miserable failure, and this is no exception. There are some serious issues that may not be surmountable. Foot pedals are essential; without feet you can't do much but play the bongos. Precision collision detection is essential - when a stick pixel lightly brushes a cymbal pixel there has to be a reaction, otherwise all sense of presence, interaction and tactility disappears. Velocity and weight must be accounted for, and not just one or two 'settings', but a full range of dynamic force detection that alters not just volume but also the tone and timbre of the instrument struck. Similarly, the different parts of each instrument must make different sounds; hitting the rim of the cymbal and the bell should sound recognizably different. But perhaps most important of all, and the point which makes me doubt the ability of VR to ever simulate drums well, the sticks need to bounce off a reactive surface. W...

Drummer here. Way too innaccurate. Very unintuitive to play. At it's core it's probably a flawed concept due to lack of pedals, and triggers don't do it nearly enough justice (especially as typically you manipulate your sticks using those fingers!) Feels like this could cause beginner drummers to develop really poor practices if they started with this. Thought it'd be a fun little toy to play around with and do some basic beats, but I can barely get that out of it. I'm curious what someone really practiced on this would sound like, but even the trailer video shows how difficult and sloppy it is to play. Really wanted to like this, but ultimately it's just not what I was hoping it would be.

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4wj5nHnEiE]Watch here comparison on three VR drum games[/url] Idea was good, but accuracy is not. Most of hits are missing. It's very good that you have lots items to pick up, but I don't think that it's realy important in drum simulator. Browser and youtube are not conveniently, I always missed search line and always browser spawns through roof or under floor. All I liked here is environment. Drums sound also could be better. Look how it made in Drums Hero or DrumKit VR

It's a very interesting idea and a something new for my VR. It's still in early access so I hope they will improve on quite a few things. At the moment when you hit the drums it's a bit like hitting a button, it plays the same sound no matter what. In future I hope they will add more technical detail to it, like difference in sound depending on how hard you smash it, being able to drag the stick on the surface and hear the sound it makes. But as it stands in it's current state it's still a very much so functioning drummer set. This however is definitely not a "game" there are no objectives and so on, so if you plan on buying this just know that it's a drum set, not guitar hero. They have a board in the game with upcoming features, and they sound very promising.

thnks for the world most expensive home with drum set... :) Very good for a E.A. reaction time is wonderful no input lag Besides i want to use my racing pedal for this drum please make some custom settings for extra gear for hihats and kicks.. We also need guitars for my friends.... =P

Barely works on any graphics settings with a decent card and no updates in a very long time.

Initial review from someone who can hold a beat. Garage Drummer VR shows incredible promise even in this early, unpolished version. It's a virtual drumkit! Wanted one of these since I first bought a Vive and it costs less than a meal at Taco Bell. After about 15 minutes of playing around I was able to work out a good, steady beat and even a bit of fill. I never thought it would be so intuitive after such a short time. The cons: - Text is terribly aliased, unreadable in any of the graphic options. - The menu selection is fidgety. Clicked on the garage door opener half a dozen times before anything happened. Same for graphics selection. - I know there's a snare rim hit but I can't hit it accurately. - No spatial audio. Everything sounds mono. What I'd like to see in future updates: - Metronome adjustment - Deperately needs a loop recorder/player so I can build on basic beats. Loop recorder should have adjustable beat time. - A way to move, add drums to the set - A way to adjust the r...

nooooooo. nothing detects correctly, theres no oculus support at all (i know thats not advertised). it sounds alright, when you can manage to hit something. if you do what a normal drummer would do and rest the stick on the snare after each hit, the sound just loops at a hundred miles an hour. i really really wanna see a good musical game in vr other than beat saber.

It's more or less abandoned.

This comes free with Steam VR Home