Historium VR - Relive the history of Bruges

If you're a student of history, and have a few bucks to spare, I'd recommend this despite it not being totally polished. I got a sense of the place and the time, and a few visualized facts that made the experience worth it for me. I would have liked the story mode to be one continuous boat ride through the canal, with more characters to watch, a bit of intrigue even. Still though I liked it and hope we get a lot more of these soon.

Awesome! History lessons via VR. The graphics and movement are great and you really caught me off-gaurd with the opening scene. Very enjoyable. This is a great way to experience history and have the knowledge stay with you. Very nicely done. More please. :-)

Very nicely done. Especially for me because I know Bruges very well. This is definitely the future of history lessons. App works fine. Just a pitty that it's so short. You pay 14,99 for a 10min history lesson.

Currently, history VR like this is probably the closest we can come to feeling like we are going back in time. I hope for more educational experiences like this. The textures and scenery in this are nice. For this price, I feel it should be longer with more content. By the way, that barge captain is a giant. :D

For some reason, I didn't expect too much of this title, but being from Belgium, I just had to give it a try. Well, it turned out to be a very immersive and beautiful experience and I only wish it had more content. I might have paid more attention to the history classes, back in school, if they would have had VR back in those days.

Cool little experience. The visuals are impressive with lots of detail. The lighting and shadows look great and I like the night time setting. The narrator gives a great lesson on the city too. The scale of the boat guide dude was a little too big though. For the price it's a tad short. I can tell a lot of work probably went into the game but unfortunately people's expectations for VR are only going higher and higher each day. I mention that in my overview below. Somewhere under $10 will probably have a lot more people at least trying the game. My overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07ZY_8OJmUE

Get it for $5 for less. Too short to justify any price above that.

I thought the "game" was ok for $8. What I couldn't understand was the narrator pronouncing Bruges as "Brew-jess". I've always heard it pronounced "Broozh". The internet says this is correct also, so it must be true.

I really wanted to enjoy this experience because I believe that VR can make history really fun to learn, and I appreciate the effort. But the ugly textures, empty places, lack of interactivity, and shortness don't make it worth the price.

[h1]Experienced on the Oculus Rift[/h1] This is really 2 educational experiences about the history of Bruges. The main one is a guided, on-rails narrated cinematic experience. You're basically transported into different scenes of the journey starting from out to sea going into Bruges. Whole thing is about 10 minutes long. You can interact with some objects. The physics are surprisingly pretty good on the items you can pick up. However, you only see your motion controllers on the Oculus Rift (versus the avatar hands seen on the store page video / screenshots). The other experience is more focused on the history with a brief audio tidbit on the location. This is a more static experience as you're no longer on rails. You're free to look around at the locale. On the Oculus Rift, I could not pick up any objects in this mode, except for the archery. Yes, in one of the scenes, you can get a bow & arrow and shoot at targets. It works surprisingly well, but it's just static targets. Please b...