Get Lost In Nature With Luke

Experienced on the Meta Quest 3
Hey Luke,
First off, fantastic job! This VR experience is truly immersive and engaging.
After going through the content, I have a few suggestions that might enhance the experience even further:
Consider removing elements that disrupt immersion, like the infamous floating seagull, which can be a bit distracting.
The greenscreen effect around you during dialogue sections feels a bit out of place and could be refined for a smoother experience.
It would be amazing to have the option to fly more freely around the scenes. I understand they may not be fully designed for that, but any added freedom would really enhance the experience.
The placement of the scenes among the mossy rocks can make it challenging to find them all, as it feels a bit random. A clearer way to track what’s been discovered would be helpful.
I found the menu system a bit confusing. The need to hold A and B to toggle it, along with the tutorial requirement to even know that, was a bit cumbersome. During my first playthrough, I accidentally closed the entire game while expecting the X icon to only close the menu.
Lastly, I would love to see the cave as a more explorable area rather than just a tutorial space.
Thanks for considering these suggestions! I’m excited to see how the experience evolves.
Best,
>noderunner_

THANKS! For this amazing VR experience. Not a plain 360 video, but a real VR scenery instead. 100% recommended,

This was the experience that helped me convince family that VR was worth all the fuss. I sincerely hope that Luke comes back with more great content. I would love to visit his favorite places again and again.

Frustratingly, initially the game would not load correctly and repeatedly crashed.
When I solved that (fix is in hub discussions) the game ran well.
It is quite short with just a few locations, which I found difficult to find, they are almost hidden! You can't move but can teleport, within a scene, to, again, just a few new positions.
The graphics are definitely not HD, but the whole experience, short as it is, is very pleasant, calming and soothing.
How could I not give a thumbs up for this free game!

This is undoubtedly the most realistic recreation of real environments I have ever seen in virtual reality. The level of detail captured in these scenes is truly incredible. I did not even know it was possible for real locations to be simulated at such quality. As I looked around the Rhode Island inlet scene, I was completely blown away by the appearance of the water and the rocky surroundings. I am not exaggerating when I write that it felt like I was really there! Nothing else has compared to this virtual simulation experience, and I sincerely hope that you continue work on this software. This is something truly special and I can't wait to see what you do next.
I've been exploring Valve's photogrammetry recreations accessible through the SteamVR workshop recently, and was rather disappointed by the clearly artificial appearance their simulated environments. However, this software is a completely different experience to other similar offerings for VR.
You have created something more detailed, more lifelike than I can honestly believe. I'm curious about how you went about capturing these scenes, because they are each absolutely stunning. What camera equipment did you use to capture these images? How did you stitch your images together so well to create the awesome environments included in this program? I felt as though I could reach out and feel the rocky walls around me, since every last indentation, scrape, and detail was perfectly replicated here.
This is seriously impressive. Thank you for making these digital environments, and for allowing people to access them for free. I loved every second I spent exploring these various locations. I can't quite tell if additional environments have been added to this program since it was published on Steam, but I do genuinely hope there is more to come. I would gladly pay to access other locations, because this work is astounding.
Everyone I showed this to was equally impressed with what you've created here.
There are a couple things that could be improved here, but none of them are in significant need of adjustment. The arrangement of the menu for accessing other locations among the mossy rocks is not the easiest to navigate, but I can still effectively access all available features. The seagull visible when visiting the "chasm" waterfront location is also far too large for the scene, and a bird frozen mid-air doesn't exactly fit in well with a simulation of reality. Still, these two issues do not substantially detract from the wonderful experience this software has to offer.
It looks like there are some other digitally simulated locations listed on your website, "lost-eagle.com", but they seem to be available only through the Oculus/Meta storefront. I'd love to see those environments available for access through other storefronts, since I don't own a headset compatible with that VR platform (to my knowledge).

It's okay. The guy talks about a few locations.
He feels more like a middle school teacher in how he talks, or something like that so not really for me.
The locations were amazing though and I could walk around a small area and see nature in pretty good detail.
oh each location also has a few points to view from but they tend to be close together.

A few nature locations rendered most excellently using video loops and photogrammetry. The water, in particular, is just wonderful. Not much to do other than soak up the marvel of a few locations via a few very-close-together viewing points. Love to see these scenes captured and presented via VR. A wonderful use of VR, and for free!? Thumbs: UP!
PS: The gull is terrifying.