Dive with Sylvia VR
Take a relaxing 5-minute vacation in Belize with legendary oceanographer and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Dr. Sylvia Earle. You’ll tour a real dive site with real wildlife: accurate corals, reef fish, sea turtles, groupers, even a whale shark. No two dives are the same!
Nominated for Best Travel/Tourism VR Experience at VRFest Las Vegas 2017, this beautiful, authentic diving experience is based on Infinite Scuba, the award-winning simulation game for Win/Mac created by Cascade Game Foundry SPC.
‘Social Purpose Corporation’ is the Washington state version of ‘B’ corporation. Our social goals are environmental education and the promotion of STEM. A portion of our proceeds goes to environmental non-profits, such as Dr. Sylvia Earle’s Mission Blue. Belize is in the Mesoamerican Reef, one of Mission Blue’s Hope Spots.
We provide Infinite Scuba free to teachers and schools.
Game Discussion
Steam User 2
Experienced on the Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality
You can view my gameplay & review here:
This is an approximately 5 minute long dive cinematic experience with few interactions. The whole experience is on-rails. The interactions consist of holding a flashlight, holding a gauge meter, and possibly scaring sea horses away. The experience is running on the Unity Engine.
Each dive is supposed to be different and that may be technically true. However, I found that each dive was pretty much the same, with the big difference being that sometimes you saw the hammerhead shark and sometimes you didn't. The visuals are nice, but nothing spectacular (plus it's just a bit foggy). The sounds are pretty dull and uninspired. You can barely hear anything. The game runs fine on my 1060 GTX, at a steady 90 frames per second.
This game is overpriced for what it is. I can only recommend it for people new to VR or as something that you can easily showcase to friends or family new to VR. This is a pretty short experience that is not intense at all.
Rate 5/10. Completely mediocre.