Project Wingman VR Review - A Straightforwardly Fun Virtual Reality Flying Game

A lot of the VR Flying games out there, at least those set in modern times, can seem pretty intimidating.

Sure there’s some great VR Flying Games out there with older aircraft set in the World Wars that are fun and accessible, but so far not so much for modern aircraft.

You might have heard of more intense VR flying simulator games like VTOL VR or DCS World that put you in the cockpit of a jet engine fighter, but the downside of those is that you have to invest a lot of time and energy to even know what you’re doing in them. They’re simulations and so take a lot of time and energy to learn. Even getting to the point where to get to fly jet engine aircraft in War Thunder VR would take a lot of time.

For those that want to feel like an awesome fighter pilot, king of the sky, splashing enemy bogies left and right, but don’t want to become an amatuer aerospace engineer just to know what you’re doing, there’s Project Wingman. It’s kind of like the Ace Combat franchise. Set in a fictional world, full of massive battles, and can be played with a controller.

A massive battle in Project Wingman VR

While not originally made for Virtual Reality, Project Wingman does feature very robust and functional Virtual Reality support, and so in this article I’ll tell you all about Project Wingman VR.

It’s easy to get started to play, and if you want to fulfil your Top Gun fantasies with a joystick or keyboard, it’s a great way to scratch that itch without having to dive into VR flying experiences that are more difficult to learn.

Even if you like more in depth flight simulators, Project Wingman is still a spectacle to see in Virtual Reality, and gives a lot of teeth clenching flying and shooting on top of that.

To find out exactly how and why Project Wingman VR does this, let’s dive into this Project Wingman VR review. Oh, and if you’re wondering how to run and play Project Wingman VR in PCVR using an Oculus Quest 3 or 2 headset, I’ll include a bit on that at the bottom most section of this article.

Project Wingman VR Review - The Gameplay and Story

In Project Wingman you are a mercenary, part of a large mercenary company called Sicario, and the world is much different from the one that we know.

A cataclysmic event destroyed a large section of the west coast of North America, and the superpower of the world is the Pacific Federation. The Federation controls the west coast of North America, and a majority of the Asia-Pacific region.

A mercenary company would be crazy to fight them, but when a country called Cascadia that controls the whole North American west coast decides to leave the Federation and is invaded for it, your mercenary group works for them and fights against the Federation.

Fighting on the ground and in the air. This game has some truly impressive visuals and battlefields

Things get much crazier from there, but that’s the basis of the plot of Project Wingman, and being an elite mercenary that fights in the largest conflicts of a war torn world is exactly the feeling that the gameplay of the game gives you.

Project Wingman VR is a flight simulator, but as I’ve mentioned it’s not one caught up on realism or restraint. Every mission in the Campaign is a huge battle with tens if not hundreds of units in the sky and on the ground, both allied and enemy.

You’re a pilot, and you and your aircraft are capable of dishing out and receiving a ton of punishment. Throughout the Campaign you’ll get access to a huge roster of planes in a variety of roles to fly with a variety of stats like maximum speed and turning rate.

Not to mention a huge variety of different weapons, though at the very least you’ll always have your guns and basic short range, slow missiles to fall back on.

VR Project Wingman has a lot of different aircraft that you can unlock as you progress

You can always fire your guns with your primary fire button, and select the different missiles, bombs, and whatever other ordinance you’re carrying to fire with the secondary fire button. Missiles need to lock on to a target in front of you, and that’s the basics of how to play Project Wingman VR. The rest comes down to how you fly.

What makes Project Wingman VR so much fun is how easy it is to pick up and play like an expert pilot. The movement controls are straightforward and easy to grasp, look up, down, side to side, or roll.

Locking on with your missiles is also easy, and so is switching between targets with a single button. There will be a lot of different targets too, from ground based defenses and buildings to ships to enemy fighters of various skill. From the very first campaign mission you’re blowing up PT Boats and AA defenses with missiles, and then switching gears to take down enemy fighters.

Your opponents are numerous, sure, but they’re more fragile and less intelligent than even a new player, at least at first. You’ll find yourself up against a ton of different challenges in this game from massive airships to enemy mercenary pilots who are much faster and more skilled than your average opponent.

The science fiction elements of the game like gigantic Airships and Railguns are also impressive visually and give interesting gameplay challenges

That’s not to say that VR Project Wingman is easy. It gets harder as you progress through the Campaign, but your experience will make up for that. Each battle is massive, and becomes a thrill ride of bouncing from one target to another, turning hard through the air, launching missiles, and turning out again to evade a fighter on your tail.

That’s the essence of what makes this flying game so great in VR or the flatscreen. It’s fast paced and action oriented. Without a million controls and screens to worry about in your cockpit you can focus on chasing down enemies, or evading them, and getting a record number of kills. Zooming around the air and blowing this up feels easy and good.

You can quickly get the hang of the controls, though there doesn’t seem to be a tutorial of any kind and so you’ll have to read the keybinds in the settings menu. Luckily there aren’t too many. Still, a tutorial would have been nice. There are occasionally prompts on the screen during the first few missions, but not often enough to teach you all of the controls without having to look at the Settings.

The settings menu after setting up a joystick. An Xbox controller or gamepad will work by default

It’s possible to play this game with full control and competency in a number of ways. A keyboard and mouse will do, but you can also use an Xbox controller or other gamepad, or even a joystick (aka HOTAS). The main menu also has a neat feature where your cursor will follow where you are looking, so there’s no need to grab your mouse for the menus.

Using the joystick does involve some messing around with the keybinds to get it working, but you can play this game easily with whichever type of controller you prefer. They’re all fun and work well.

Oh, and there’s more ways to play VR Project Wingman than just the main Campaign. Though I have to say that the Campaign is fantastic and offers a decent story about a world in conflict and what the conflict does to the world. Not to mention that each mission is pretty fantastic and gives you a lot of different enemies and challenges to overcome.

Each campaign mission has a detailed briefing and conveys some of Project Wingman’s story

Well if you’re tired of the Campaign there’s also Conquest mode. While the Campaign is finite, Conquest mode generates sorties and battles for you to fight through across a map of Cascadia.

In Conquest you fight in these generated battles and accumulate money for more wingmen and equipment. Though as your enemy loses more and more to you they will send stronger forces to try and stop you. It’s an interesting mode that adds a lot of replayability to the game, and gives you a chance to experiment with more planes that you might have missed in the Campaign.

Though if you’re wondering whether Project Wingman VR has a Multiplayer mode so that you can play against others or your friends, well unfortunately it doesn’t. If you want a more Multiplayer oriented VR flight simulator with modern planes then look into VTOL VR, though that game requires a lot more learning than Project Wingman does, it does at least have a tutorial.

Project Wingman VR Review - The Look and Feel of Virtual Reality

The first thing you should consider when thinking of playing any Virtual Reality flying game is how much you’re prone to motion sickness.

That’s because more than any other genre of game on the Quest, flying games tend to give people motion sickness more than any other.

One of the biggest draws of VR in any flying game, Project Wingman included, is the ability to look around your cockpit and at the skies around you with total freedom by just moving your head around.

It’s truly awesome, and gives you a big gameplay advantage because of how easily you can keep your eye on other planes in the sky by looking at them through the top or sides of your cockpit while you’re flying past. This is very fun and very crucial in dogfights, which there are a lot of in Project Wingman VR.

Firing a missile at a ground target

Unfortunately it’s also really easy to give yourself motion sickness this way.

There are definitely ways to mitigate motion sickness while VR gaming, but if you haven’t tried high tensity flying in Virtual Reality before then keep in mind that you might have to just play in short sessions for a while until you get used to it.

With that disclaimer out of the way, wow does Project Wingman look fantastic in VR. It’s an older game and so has that sort of fuzziness to the edges of objects that a lot of older VR games have, but WOW does it still look good.

Unlike a lot of other older VR ports, Project Wingman looks great in Virtual Reality, and runs pretty well.

Not to mention the environments. They look absolutely stunning. From idyllic hillsides blasted with bomb craters and fires, to gigantic cityscapes covered in the fog of war. Project Wingman VR is a stunning display of graphical fidelity, and just like all games that include Virtual Reality, it looks even better up close in VR.

Just look at that city far below the clouds

The same goes for the feeling of the game. VR puts you right in the cockpit of your jet, and looking at your cockpit and all of the things beyond it by moving your actual head arounds really serves to make you feel much more present in the world of the game.

Though if you were wondering if you could use the third person or non cockpit views in VR, then you might be disappointed to hear that VR only allows you to play in the cockpit view. Though to be honest that would probably be the best way to play VR Project Wingman anyway.

Boom

While Project Wingman VR can be a little difficult to run with higher graphical settings on older, weaker computers, it is truly a spectacle. Each mission to undertake presents you with a battlefield full of allies and enemies in the air and on the ground.

The trails of missiles criss cross through the sky, explosions balloon from the earth with every successful missile strike. The music is upbeat, and the banter of your mercenary colleagues, enemies, and allies, is a pleasant reminder that you’re one pilot in a huge conflict.

The banter of your fellow pilots isn’t constant, but comes often enough to feel friendly

For all of these reasons Project Wingman VR is highly recommended if you want a fast and fun game that lets you be a fighter pilot and dominate the skies in massive AI battles. If you want a more Multiplayer focused or slower paced game then maybe try VTOL VR, but even for people who are used to more simulator focused VR flying games, Project Wingman is a blast. It’s a lot of fun to zoom from target to target firing missiles all the way. That’s the essence of what makes this Virtual Reality game awesome, the thrill and speed of it.

Even if you already play more in depth VR Flying Games, Project Wingman offers a more fast paced and action oriented experience than the more simulator focused games. If you just want to hop into a game and fire some missiles then this is definitely one you should check out.

If you’re interested in playing Project Wingman VR, here’s how.

How To Play Project Wingman VR

So if you’re interested in playing Project Wingman in Virtual Reality, here’s how you do that.

As far as which VR headset you’ll need, any that can connect to a PC is fine. If you’re using an Oculus Quest VR headset then you’ll have to connect it to your PC, since Project Wingman VR is a PCVR game and not available as a standalone game on the Quest store.

If you’ve played PCVR games before on your PC, then running Project Wingman VR is the same as any other PCVR game you’d play through Steam.

Though no matter how you get it running keep in mind that you might get a prompt the first time you run the game via Steam VR about what controller profile to use for your touch controllers. Don’t worry about that, since there’s no reason to use touch controllers in this VR game.

As long as Steam VR is running and detects your headset the game will automatically run in Virtual Reality mode. After loading is finished you will see the main menu in your headset.

Fighting enemy ships during a massive thunderstorm

So setup is really easy if you’ve ever played a PCVR game before.

If you’re using an Oculus Quest 2 or Oculus Quest 3 and haven’t run a PCVR game on your headset before then this guide for running VTOL VR on a Quest device should be helpful, but instead of running VTOL VR when you’re in Steam VR just run Project Wingman instead.

Since Project Wingman is a Steam game you can also use Steam Link to play it on a Quest device. You might find that it runs better through Steam Link than Oculus Airlink or Virtual Desktop.

Anyhow that’s all for this Project Wingman VR Review. This game is an absolute blast to play in Virtual Reality. It starts strong and spectacular and just became stronger and more spectacular over time. If you want to be a master pilot and fight in huge aerial battles then this is definitely a game you should try.

How To Play Minecraft VR Directly On The Oculus Quest 2 Standalone Without PCVR

Minecraft VR is an absolutely fantastic game, and once you get it working it is a ton of fun. Now you can even enjoy it if your PC isn’t great and can’t run games in PCVR. You only need a PC to install it on your headset, and after you’re done setting it up you can play VR Minecraft on your Oculus Quest 2 headset whenever you want.

Despite the low resolution textures and the blocky appearance of well… everything. VR Minecraft on the Oculus Quest 2 is an absolute blast to play.

The freedom of Minecraft’s open world and the impressiveness of exploring it becomes even better and more immersive with the addition of Virtual Reality on a Meta Quest 2. All of the caves and wilderness that you explore, and of course the creations that you make within the game, are even better to experience like they are right in front of you in VR.

Unfortunately installing Minecraft for the Oculus Quest 2 isn’t as simple as most games, which you can just install through the Oculus Store or App on your phone.

Nope, to play Minecraft VR on the Meta Quest 2 you’ll need to do a bit of extra work, but it’s definitely worth it. So if you want to explore Minecraft in VR on your Oculus Quest device then keep reading because we’ve got exactly how step by step.

Oh, and if you’ve got an Oculus Quest 3 then unfortunately this won’t work, at least at the time of writing. Currently this will only work for older Meta Quest devices, but the developers of this Minecraft VR port to Quest are hard at work on including the Meta Quest 3 as well.

Minecraft VR for the Oculus Quest 2 - Prerequisites

So before we get going with the installation process there’s a few things you’ll need:

• A Microsoft account with Minecraft: Java Edition

• A PC on the same WiFi network as your Oculus Quest 2 headset

• A cable to connect your PC to your headset: You can buy the official Oculus Link Cable here. If you’d rather try a cheaper option then there are several available from Amazon like this one here.

Once you have all of these things then you’ve got everything you need to play Minecraft on your Quest 2. So let’s get started.

Minecraft VR for the Quest 2 - Installing SideQuest

To play Minecraft directly on your Meta Quest 2 standalone without running the game on a PC, we’re going to use the popular application SideQuest to sideload an app called QuestCraft on to your headset.

If you’ve never used SideQuest before then don’t worry, I’ll run you through how to set it up and sideload QuestCraft here. Oh, and in case you’re wondering SideQuest and QuestCraft are both totally free! As long as you already own Minecraft you won’t have to pay a cent more to enjoy it in Virtual Reality.

If you already have SideQuest installed then skip down to the next section.

To start go to the SideQuest installation page and download the Easy Installer.

Download the Easy SideQuest installer by clicking here

The installation of SideQuest is guided by the installer. Each step you need to take will be shown in the SideQuest installer window.

After running the installer the first thing you will need to do is connect your Quest 2 headset to your computer using that Link Cable mentioned in the prerequisites.

The first page of the SideQuest installation process

Once your headset is connected to your PC then the installer will continue to give you instructions on how to set up a Meta developer profile and enable developer mode on your Quest device.

Unfortunately there’s no way to sideload apps like QuestCraft for VR Minecraft on your headset without doing this.

This might seem like a lot but trust me it’s worth it

Luckily the SideQuest installer makes the whole process very easy by explaining exactly what to do step by step.

After you’ve set up your Meta Organization and enabled developer mode I also recommend you create a SideQuest account while you’re at it. You’ll need it after completing the installation. Don’t worry, the SideQuest account is completely free.

If you just follow what the installer says until all of the red circles under “Connection Status” turn green, then you’ll be just fine. When you’ve successfully installed SideQuest some confetti will appear on the launcher and it will look something like this.

Once you see this you’ve successfully installed SideQuest on your Oculus Quest 2! Now on to installing Minecraft VR

Congratulations! When you’ve done this then not only is Minecraft VR just a few simple steps away, but all sorts of other sideloaded apps will be very easy to install on your Oculus Quest 2 and enjoy.

Minecraft VR - Installing and Playing QuestCraft

Now that SideQuest is installed on your headset it’s time to put your Oculus Quest 2 on and open SideQuest.

Go to your game library as usual and click the search bar at the top. You don’t have to type anything into it. Instead click on the drop down next to it and then click on the “Unknown Sources” option.

Go to “Unknown Sources” to open sideloaded applications like SideQuest or VR Minecraft

You’ll see a new application called “SideQuest” click on it to open it.

When SideQuest loads and opens you’ll get a prompt with a six digit code telling you to go to sdq.st/link and enter the code. So take your headset off, go back to your PC and go to that website and enter the six digit code. You’ll also have to log into your SideQuest account. If you didn’t make one earlier then do so now. It’s easy and it’s free.

Once you’ve linked your SideQuest installation on your headset to your Oculus Quest 2 the SideQuest app will open. You’ll get some prompts asking you for various permissions, hit “Allow” on all of them.

Allowing permissions will make everything run smoothly

You also might have a prompt, like in the screenshot above to Update SideQuest. Go ahead and do that. You’ll probably get a prompt telling you that “your phone currently isn’t allowed to install unknown apps from this source.”

If you do then hit the “Settings” button in that popup and enable the slider for “Allow this source.”

If you don’t do this then SideQuest won’t be able to install anything

If you don’t update SideQuest or aren’t prompted to then you might have to do this later when you install QuestCraft.

Otherwise if you do update then SideQuest will close itself, just relaunch it.

Now that you’ve finally installed, updated, and accessed SideQuest, let’s install Oculus Quest 2 Minecraft! This part is easy. Search for “QuestCraft” by clicking on the magnifying glass in the top right and typing it in, or if you’re lucky it might be right there on the front page.

Opening the QuestCraft page in the SideQuest app

This will open the QuestCraft page. There will be a big button on it that says “SIDELOAD". Click that button and let SideQuest do its job.

You’ll see some prompts show up saying that APKs and other things are installing. If you get any prompts asking you for permissions, then accept them.

Soon you’ll see a popup at the bottom of the window telling you that QuestCraft was installed successfully. Nice! Now go back to your app library, and go back to the “Unknown Sources” menu just like you did before to open SideQuest.

This time you’ll see a new app named “QuestCraft” so go ahead and open that.

Opening Minecraft VR from the “Unknown Sources” menu

It might take a while to load, just be patient, but when it does you’ll find yourself in a grand hall made of minecraft blocks with a huge screen right next to you.

Point your right controller at that screen and click the “Sign In” button on it.

Another code to link, but this is the last one

You’ll see a prompt appear below it telling you to go to microsoft.com/link and enter a code.

Go ahead and do that. After you enter the code you’ll also have to log into your Microsoft account that owns Minecraft: Java Edition. You’ll be asked to confirm that you’re giving certain permissions to the application in order to do this.

Now while I had no trouble when doing this, some reviews for QuestCraft on SideQuest have stated that at this point they get a message saying that their account couldn’t be found or couldn’t be accessed. If you get an error or have a problem around here then exit out of QuestCraft, restart your headset, double check the credentials you’re using for your Microsoft account, double check that your Microsoft account has Minecraft: Java Edition on it, and try again.

Once your account is linked successfully then just click “Sign In” again. It will change to some new buttons giving you various options like ModManager and the current version. Let’s finally get into some Meta Quest 2 Minecraft on your Quest and hit “Play”.

When you get here you’re so close to Oculus Quest 2 Minecraft

Or rather wait for Minecraft to download on to your Quest. You’ll see some text start appearing and disappearing in the bottom right corner of the big screen.

This is all downloading and installing a bunch of stuff to let you play VR Minecraft.

This is the last step, downloading some Minecraft VR mod files

You’ll have to wait for a few minutes, but eventually the text will go away. When it does hit “Play” again.

Then you’ll find yourself in a dirt room with the Minecraft main menu screen in front of you. Awesome! You’re finally in Minecraft VR.

The Minecraft main menu in Virtual Reality on the Quest 2

Go ahead and test out how it works by making a world and hopping in it. Your right hand works just like it does in the Oculus menus. Just point and pull the trigger to select.

The main menu and options work mostly like they do in the flatscreen Minecraft game, though there are some new options that are VR specific.

Now you should be aware that the first time you make a world and play Minecraft in VR on your Oculus Quest 2 like this, it’s probably going to be a little laggy and choppy.

Don’t worry, this will probably go away in a few minutes. Just ride it out. You may experience little glitches like your character sliding in a random direction, or the framerate suddenly dropping sharply. I found that it took about five to ten minutes for the game to smooth out and function well.

Be a little patient and hopefully it will work better. This is a mod after all, and mods tend to have bugs and problems.

Punching a tree in Minecraft VR on the Quest

As long as it runs smoothly this Minecraft VR mod for the Quest is pretty great.

You can harvest blocks, or hit enemies, by pointing your dominant hand at them with your cursor and holding down right trigger, or you can actually swing at them with your arm or tool.

Pointing your cursor at a space while holding a block and pulling the left trigger places the block in your hand. When you make a Crafting Table you can also craft things with it by pointing your cursor at it and pulling the left trigger.

Using the crafting bench in VR Minecraft

There’s a lot more to learn and discover in Minecraft VR, so I’ll leave that to you.

Not to mention you can also use your newly installed SideQuest application to Sideload all sorts of other games on to your Oculus Quest 2 as well.

Minecraft is a ton of fun in Virtual Reality, and I hope that this setup guide has given you the chance to experience the wonder and fun of VR Minecraft as well with the comfort and freedom of any standalone Quest 2 game. Enjoy!

The 5 Best VR Drumming Games For Quest PCVR and PSVR

If you feel the urge to hit things to create music then you’ll be excited to hear that those things don’t actually have to be physical anymore.

Yep, you don’t have to worry about wearing out your drumheads because there are a ton of fantastic VR Drumming Games that you can play to have the same fun you could with a physical set of drums, but in Virtual Reality! Just like all sorts of VR music games, there are some great options for playing the drums in VR.

This is even better because actual drums or drum sets are huge and expensive. Now with just a VR headset like the Oculus Quest 3 or 2 you can have fun playing percussion in a variety of ways in any of these fun and engaging VR games.

So if you’re an experienced drummer looking for new ways to play your favorite instrument, someone looking to practice and learn how to drum better, or just want to have some fun with some drums, here are the Best VR Drumming games out there.

All of these games are available for the Oculus Quest, most are available on Steam for PCVR, and the last two on this list, Ragnarock and Drum Rock are available for PSVR. Each game will have its platforms noted at the bottom of their respective sections.

Smash Drums - A Guitar Hero VR Drumming Experience

The Smash Drums Logo

Remember the Guitar Hero drum set? Well if you were lucky enough to have one you’ve probably got fond memories of hitting it to the beat of the notes on screen.

Well now you don’t need to invest the money and space into having a plastic drum set in your house to experience Guitar Hero drumming like you used to have to.

Now with the VR Drum Game Smash Drums you can get the same sort of experience, but with just a VR headset.

Smash Drums is just like Guitar Hero drumming in VR

Smash Drums is a guided VR Drum experience that shows you the notes as they come at you. All you have to do is hit the correct piece of your drum set to match the notes as they reach the end of the bar, just like Guitar Hero!

There’s a ton of songs and levels to try, with different difficulty modes, so you can jam out to any number of amazing songs and feel like a real rock star on the drums. Smash Drums also has different game modes and a scoring system that will make you always want to beat your last streak and perfect your playing.

For the casual VR drummer that wants to feel like a master on a modern drum set Smash Drums is a ton of fun and feels as satisfying as ever in Virtual Reality when you keep the beat and hit those notes just right.

Smash Drums however, is only available on the Meta Quest platform.

Taiko Frenzy - Traditional Japanese VR Drumming

The Taiko Frenzy Logo

Taiko Frenzy is another very fun VR Drumming game with a classic twist on it, and some very fun vibes inspired by traditional Japanese culture and modern Japanese arcade games.

That’s because in this game you don’t play a drum set, instead you play a Taiko, which is the word for “drum” in Japanese and also refers to the drums used by the Japanese for centuries.

Taiko Frenzy is entirely about playing the Taiko, a single huge one right in front of you. You might think at first that just hitting a single drum wouldn’t be very hard, but Taiko Frenzy actually has a lot of different ways for you to hit the Taiko in order to match the notes that roll down it towards you.

Playing the Taiko in Virtual Reality is a ton of fun

You hit the drum head, sure, but just like when played by a professional you hit the Taiko on the sides as well to produce a different sound, kind of like hitting a wood block. Some notes need to be hit harder than others, and sometimes you have to do a drum roll for a while. It’s surprisingly difficult.

As you play there are other instruments joining you in the song as well, and if you love traditional Japanese music then you will absolutely love the way this game sounds. Taiko Frenzy is a unique and cultured take on the VR Drum Game genre, and is easy to learn but hard to master.

Taiko Frenzy is available on the Meta Quest platform, and soon from the time of writing will be available on Steam for PCVR.

Paradiddle - A VR Drumming Simulation

The Paradiddle Logo

For those who want less of a VR Drumming Game and more of a VR Drum Simulation, then Paradiddle is exactly what you are looking for.

Paradiddle aims to be less of a game than a way to learn and practice how to drum on a drum set for real in Virtual Reality. While using VR does lack some of the physical sensation of actually hitting a drumhead with an actual drum stick, Paradiddle gives you everything else you could want when practicing the drums.

You can set up your drum kit any way you like in VR within a number of virtual spaces. You can even drum in your actual real life surroundings by using the Mixed Reality mode. Put a drum set anywhere in your house that you want and have at it!

Some Paradiddle gameplay of a cover of the song Chop Suey! Check out the whole song on their youtube channel.

There are even lessons if you’re out of practice or just starting out. So Paradiddle is a great way to learn how to play the drums in VR. You can even customize your drums with different layouts and pieces of equipment. All without having to spend hundreds to figure out just how you like your setup.

While Virtual Reality does have its limitations (for instance using the base drum without your feet being tracked) Paradiddle is the closest to a real VR Drumming experience as you can get in Virtual Reality.

The game even has a library of songs that can play as you drum to them, making you feel like a part of an actual band, or giving great practice for covering those songs with one. So if you want to learn how to drum or want a great and easy way to practice drumming wherever you are with your VR headset, Paradiddle is an unmatched VR Drumming simulator.

Paradiddle is available on the Meta Quest store and Steam for PCVR.

Ragnarock - VR Viking Longship Drumming

The Ragnarock Logo

Ragnarock is another unique take on a VR Drumming Game, and a very cool looking one too.

Imagine this. You’re at the helm of a Viking Longship. In front of you are all of your crewmates, rowing and rowing as the ship glides down a river through caves, forests, and ancient ruins. There are four drums in front of you in a line, and there is a hammer in both of your hands.

Runes fly towards you over your crewmates’ heads, and just as they reach one of the four drums you smack it with a hammer. That’s the essence of playing Ragnarock, and while it sounds very simple it is extremely fun.

Sailing through a spooky forest while drumming looks and feels great in Ragnarock

Rocking out and hitting your drums as the ship cruises past the varied and beautiful landscape is a ton of fun in Ragnarock. Not to mention the fun selection of music you can rock out to.

While as the name implies Ragnarock is focused on rock, hard rock, and heavy metal type of tracks, those are the perfect genres of music for intensely smashing those four drums as you cruise along.

Ragnarock is probably the easiest to learn of any of these games, it’s downright intuitive, but it is still extremely fun and quick to get into if you want a way to quickly hit some drums and play a song. Like all drumming games it is pretty intense, but Ragnarock is so much so that it’s practically a Virtual Reality workout when you play it on higher difficulties.

So if you’ve ever wanted to be the drummer on a Viking longship, or just want to cruise your way to Valhalla while drumming your heart out, give Ragnarock a look, it’s a fun time.

Ragnarock is available for the Meta Quest, on Steam for PCVR, and on Playstation VR.

Drums Rock - A Heavy Metal Take On A VR Guitar Hero Drumming Game

The Drums Rock

Drums Rock is another Guitar Hero inspired VR drumming game like Smash Drums is.

The concept is largely the same. You’ve got your drum set in front of you, and hit you hit the right piece as its note flies towards you except… these aren’t normal notes.

They don’t look like what you might expect from a Guitar Hero style drumming game at all, they’re more like little Imps or demons. Oh, and you’re not drumming in a room or on a stage. You’re drumming on a lake of fire in this VR Drum game.

Drums Rock is a very interesting looking VR Drumming Game

The look of Drums Rock is definitely much wilder and more creative, and it plays just as well, with maybe a little more leeway on the timing of hit notes. It is also available on PSVR 1 and 2. So if you’re looking for a great Guitar Hero drumming experience on the Playstation VR platform then this is it.

Drums Rock also has a very wide selection of songs, some of which you won’t find elsewhere. While the look might be very heavy metal inspired, you’ll find that the songs are largely rock or even pop.

Though the number one thing that makes Drums Rock stand out is its ability to let you add custom songs. So if you’ve got some particular songs in mind that you’d like to try then this is the game for you.

Drums Rock is available on the Meta Quest, Steam for PCVR, and Playstation VR platforms.

Well that’s all of the Best VR Drumming Games out there. Whether you want to drum professionally or just have fun banging on some drums to the notes flying towards you, there are a ton of great VR games out there for you to try. Have fun with your Virtual Reality drums and enjoy!

The Awesome Gorilla Tag Caves Map

The Gorilla Tag Caves Map is pretty awesome, and very unique as far as the many maps in Gorilla Tag go.

This is because the caves in Gorilla Tag aren’t quite like any other map. You see, while most Gorilla Tag maps have a lot of wide open spaces, cliffs to climb, and things to jump off of high into the air, the Gorilla Tag caves are much smaller with low ceilings and tight spaces.

So playing in the caves of Gorilla Tag feels less like swinging from tree to tree like in the Gorilla Tag forest map, or swimming in the wide open waters of the Gorilla Tag beach map.

Playing infection in the caves feels more like playing hide and seek, with a lot of corners to hide in, and hallways to run away from a tagged player in.

So the Gorilla Tag caves are actually pretty great for new players who don’t yet have the skills to wall climb in Gorilla Tag or do a lot of fancy tricks and get to the hard to reach hiding spots.

So whether you’re a new player just getting into the game or an experienced monkey that wants a different way to play the game, check out the Gorilla Tag caves. Here we’ll talk about how to get to the cave in Gorilla Tag, and all of the sweet things you’ll find in the Gorilla Tag cave.

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How To Get To The Gorilla Tag Caves

To find the caves in Gorilla Tag is a pretty easy thing.

When you spawn into your monke treehouse like always when you start the game, don’t go out of any of the holes in the sides of the treehouse like you usually would to get to the forest, canyon, or city.

Instead check out the hole in the bottom of the treehouse, between the cosmetics station and the way to the canyon.

The way to the Gorilla Tag caves

You can already see the glowing of some of the pink crystals down there, more on that later.

For now jump down the hole, and make your way down the twisting passage. You’ll start to hear water, and then you’ll see it.

Follow the waterfall to find the center of the cave

A little waterfall leading into a stream that leads further down into the caves. Pretty awesome!

Keep following the water downwards.

Oh, and if you want to feel like you’re on a slip and slide, a huge one, and don’t want to go all the way down to the beach to use one of the water slides there, just get into the water and slide your way down. It’s a ton of fun.

The water will pull you further down into the caves, where you’ll see the giant crystal.

This giant beautiful crystal dominates the center of the caves

The crystal is the center of the Gorilla Tag caves map, and once you’ve made it here you’re really ready to start caving in Gorilla Tag.

The scoreboard is down at the bottom of the crystal, and if the river slides you to the bottom, don’t worry, there are a couple of ropes next to the crystal that you can use to climb back up.

You’ll also notice that when you touch the crystal it will make a musical sounds, all of the glowing crystals inside the cave do that.

This is great, because not only does it sound nice, but you can also hear when other monkeys are touching the crystals, which can give you a huge advantage in knowing where they are.

Anyway now that we know how to get to the caves map in Gorilla Tag, let’s talk about all of the amazing things there are to find inside of them.

How To Get Around the Gorilla Tag Caves

So to give you an idea of how the caves in Gorilla Tag are laid out, we’re going to split them into levels, like the floors of a house.

The highest level, or the top floor, is where you enter the caves, the big open pit surrounding the crystal. This area does give you a lot of space to wall climb (though that’s really hard here) and try to juke opponents. At least it has more space than the rest of the cave.

It’s got some crystals, the two ropes to climb up in the center, and a bunch of rocks to bounce around on, good fun but not what makes the cave map really unique.

As far as the cave goes this is actually pretty spacious, a lot of room to run around

You can see the next floor, we’ll call it the third floor, below here on some of the little wooden ledges that surround the big crystal in the center.

The highest ones are little cubby holes with some rocks in them. Not really big, and not fantastic for hiding, but if you play it just right you can juke out someone chasing you by running into and out of them really quickly.

These upper ledges just lead into small rooms

There are a few of these holes, but below them is where things get really interesting.

The next lowest level, we’ll call it the second floor, is where the Gorilla Tag caves really start to become caves.

Near the scoreboard on the ground floor you’ll see another wooden ledge in the side of the wall, but this one leads into a cave mouth that you can’t see all the way inside of.

It’s a little high off of the ground, but if you jump really hard with both arms you can easily make it from the ground up to this ledge. This is the entrance to the second floor of the caves.

The way to the second floor from the central crystal

The second floor is pretty interesting because it’s smaller than the lowest floor, the one below it, but still has a lot of fun twisting passageways and places to hide.

If you’re trying to tag someone you can also hang out on the second floor and wait for them to pass by below you, before jumping down at them and tagging them when they least expect it.

The second floor has a lot of places to jump down to the lowest floor of the Gorilla Tag caves

The second floor has a lot of spots that hang out over the biggest caverns of the lower floor below it, and there are also some spots where you can jump up to the second floor from the lowest floor.

So if you want to get really tricky you can hang out on the second floor to hide, or surprise someone.

Now for where the magic really happens, the lowest floor of the caves. There are two entrances to it. One is next to the ledge leading to the second floor.

One of the entrances to the lowest floor from the central crystal

Another entrance is nearby on the other side of the scoreboard from this entrance.

It’s where the stream of water starting at the waterfall at the entrance to the caves leads, right through the doorway.

The other entrance to the lowest floor of the Gorilla Tag cave, just follow the water

The lowest floor of the caves is the biggest by far, and has a ton of great things to explore and see.

So now that we’ve covered how to get to each area of the cave, and how the floors are laid out, let’s talk about all of the awesome things there are to find.

The Awesome Things in the Gorilla Tag Caves

So what’s so great about the Gorilla Tag cave? Well a lot of things that you won’t find anywhere else in this VR game.

First there’s a little animal friend for you to make. No, not another monkey, or all of the friends you might make playing Gorilla Tag, a little bat!

You’ll know the bat in the caves is nearby when you hear it’s wings beating the air and going whoosh whoosh.

The bat flies around, mostly in the center around the big crystal, randomly and kind of bounces off of the walls. If you manage to get close and grab it you can even hold them.

You can catch the bat

When you let go, the bat goes back to flying around.

There’s also some pools of water to swim around (and maybe hide in). They even have an underwater passage leading from one to the other, a great way to move around without being seen easily.

Swimming is always fun in Gorilla Tag, and the caves have some pools you can swim in

This and all of the caverns and passages leading to it make the caves a great Gorilla Tag map for hiding and running around in.

Playing infection in this map is fantastic even if you’re new to the game, and has a lot of easy walls and slopes to climb and bounce around in. It’s not as wide open as other maps and gives you a lot of places to hide.

I’ve saved the best for last for you though, with something you might have noticed in our previous screenshots.

Remember the big crystal? How it and all of the other ones in the cave walls made sounds whenever you touched them? Well it gets even better.

All around the lowest floor of the caves are these colorful crystals, and each makes a different sound when you touch them.

These musical crystals are all over the lowest floor

Some form little paths too, and you practically make music while you move over top of them.

It sounds very cool and gives a musical vibe to the cave ambiance that otherwise would just be echoes and the dripping of water off of stalagtites.

There’s even a circular ring of these colorful stones that form a piano that stretches around you while you’re in the center. You could actually play a song on this thing.

A crystal piano, very cool

So even if you’re not playing Infection and just want to hang out in Casual, there are a lot of awesome things to play around with and explore in the caverns.

You could even play a regular game of hide and seek, or even make music in the Gorilla Tag caves.

That’s all we’ve got for you about the Gorilla Tag caves. This is definitely a unique and fun Gorilla Tag map that doesn’t quite feel like any others, and will definitely give you a lot of intense and heart pounding memories as you’re sprinting down its small hallways as fast as your monke arms can carry you. Enjoy!

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How To Use UEVR To Play Unreal Engine Games in Virtual Reality

UEVR is a fantastic new mod from the talented Flatscreen to Virtual Reality modder praydog.

They have made many VR mods over the years such as the popular REFramework that allows some Resident Evil games such as Resident Evil 8 to be played comfortably on PCVR.

Though it is praydog’s most recent flatscreen to Virtual Reality mod that has taken the VR community by storm, the UEVR injector mod.

UEVR allows you to “inject” 6DOF (six degrees of freedom) VR controls and head tracking into practically any game made with Unreal Engine, a game engine used to make many indie and AAA titles.

Using UEVR allows you to use your VR headset to experience full 360 degree immersion in Virtual Reality in a huge new catalog of games that were previously only available to play traditionally on a monitor. Though unfortunately older Unreal Engine games still won’t work, the mod will only work with games using Unreal Engine 4 or later versions.

Of course to use this fantastic mod you’ll need to be able to connect your headset to a PC to run PCVR games, which is completely possible even if you’re using an Oculus Quest 3 or Oculus Quest 2 device.

So if you want to get access to a whole new suite of VR games using the UEVR mod, then you’ve come to the right place. Here I’ll show you how to use the UEVR mod to play Unreal Engine games in VR. Here’s how to play Unreal Engine games in Virtual Reality with UEVR.

Download UEVR

First things first, to use UEVR you’re going to need to download it.

This is easy, just head over to the UEVR github page and click on the latest release in the “Releases” section on the right.

Go to the Releases section to download UEVR

There should be a link at the top of the page for the release, right next to “Just looking for the download? Here:”. Click that link and a UEVR.zip file will be downloaded to your computer’s downloads folder.

Go to your Downloads folder, or whichever folder you have configured your browser to download files to, and find the UEVR.zip folder you just downloaded. All you’ve got to do is uncompress the .zip file into a regular folder by right clicking on it and selecting “Extract All…” and confirming the name of the folder to extract to. Leave it at the default name “UEVR” to avoid confusion.

Run A Game In UEVR

Now you’ve got a folder named UEVR, and inside it is an application called “UEVRInjector”. That’s what you’ll be running to play Unreal Engine games in VR.

Run UEVRInjector.exe as an administrator by right clicking on it and selecting “Run as administrator”. You’ll get a prompt asking you to confirm this, hit Yes.

Now you’ve started UEVR, let’s get a game to work in it.

A freshly launched UEVR instance, make sure to run it as an Administrator

To give you an example of a game that we can now play in Virtual Reality with UEVR, we’ll be using the SWAT tactical shooting game Ready Or Not.

First Person Shooter games like Ready Or Not are generally easier and more straightforward to get working in UEVR, as you won’t have to mess around with the HMD settings too much to get your headset view to align with your character in the game, since the game is already in the first person.

If you’re wondering what games work in UEVR and how well, then you should check out this list of games rated on how well they function with the UEVR mod.

Now that we’ve got UEVR running go ahead and connect your VR headset to your PC. You can do this even with a wireless standalone quest device by using Oculus Airlink or Virtual Desktop or an Oculus Link Cable. Steam Link also works with UEVR, provided you are running the Unreal Engine game through Steam.

Once your headset is connected to your PC run the game you want to play in VR using UEVR. It doesn’t matter which platform you are using to run the game, whether it’s through Steam, Epic Games, GOG, or itch.io. Once the game is launched go back to the UEVR application and select the game in the dropdown near the top.

Don’t worry about this popup

Once the game is selected you might get a popup saying something about plugins, don’t worry about this popup and just click “OK”. If another popup asks you if you want to view the plugins directory then don’t worry about it and hit No.

Now that your game is selected in the drop down then select the “Inject” button. If you don’t see the game in the drop down then it may be because the game is a Multiplayer game with an Anti-Cheat client. We’ll talk more about that in the troubleshooting section further down in this article.

Once the game is selected you can mess with some options before hitting “Inject” to start the game in Virtual Reality

Once you hit the inject button put your headset on and wait for a moment. If you’re running a game through Steam you may see the Steam VR client appear first, but shortly the game should appear in front of you in VR.

If it doesn’t then make sure that you have the game opened on your Desktop, and click inside of it to make sure it is the active application. Once UEVR has done its injecting thing you should see something like this.

Press “Insert” to enable or disable this menu

Congratulations! You’ve successfully run the game in VR using UEVR. You can look around with your VR headset and move the mouse using your usual mouse and keyboard but you might be wondering how you really play the game now.

Configure and Use UEVR

I’m going to continue to use Ready Or Not as an example, but keep in mind that some things might be different depending on which game you are trying to run.

A non first person game might have a different camera that you need to play with to get looking right in VR, or a different control scheme that might work better or worse. Though when in doubt just using your mouse and keyboard as you normally would is a solid way to get reliable controls.

So first thing first, you’ve got this big menu in front of your face. Get rid of it by hitting the “Insert” key. We’ll be coming back to this menu, and you can always get it back by hitting the “Insert” key on your keyboard again.

In Ready Or Not the main menu is very far away from where your head is by default, this can be fixed by messing with the camera controls as we’ll see later, but you can also just squint at the menu options and use your mouse to select one, like a Singleplayer practice mission.

The Ready Or Not main menu in UEVR

After starting a mission we get our hands on some weaponry and actually start to play the game… but you might notice that the weapon you see in your character’s hands doesn’t exactly line up with where you’re looking.

Luckily UEVR gives you some easy to use Camera tools that let you adjust your VR view in the game. Here in Ready Or Not the camera is already focused in first person, but to tweak it just a little bit so that the gunsights align with your eyes you just have to hit “Insert” to bring up the UEVR ingame menu, click on the Camera tab, and then click “Set Standing Height”, “Set Standing Origin”, and finally “Recenter View.”

The camera menu gives you a lot of options for changing your view of the game

This pretty reliably sets the position of the camera to your current head height, making aiming down the sights much easier. Always keep in mind that in UEVR there are also a ton of options to make the game look, run, and feel different. Way too many for us to cover completely here. So if something doesn’t feel right, experiment.

For instance you can also manually change the camera position in this screen with a number of sliders in the “Camera” menu. With this you can even turn Ready Or Not into a Third Person Shooter instead of a first person one.

Virtual Reality makes everything more intense

There are an absolute ton of options in the UEVR options menu, but what we’ve outlined here will get a first person shooter working fairly well with your mouse and keyboard and VR headset.

Of course you can also use different control schemes when playing an Unreal Engine game with the UEVR mod. It’s possible to use your touch controllers, and also to aim and look around with your headset, so that your cursor in the game follows where you look.

I’d recommend trying and messing around with these in the “Input” tab of the UEVR menu. Some games might not work at all with some of these options, and some might work better or worse. You can change the controls by changing the “Type” dropdown under “Aim Method.” in the Input menu.

There’s no guarantee that your touch controls will work smoothly with a game running in UEVR, this is a mod after all.

Try changing the input options, they’re a lot of fun

That’s all you need to know to play an FPS game in UEVR. There are still a lot of options to play around with to make your setup optimal, and so I’ll leave you with a few troubleshooting tips just in case you run into problems.

UEVR Troubleshooting

The first potential issue with your UEVR setup that you’ll probably notice is a big warning in the UEVR screen stating that you might want to disable Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.

Doing so makes things run a little more smoothly in UEVR, at least in general. So if you’re having performance issues then you should disable Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling.

Keep in mind that even when doing this you might still have performance troubles depending on the PC that you’re running the game on. VR is very intense for a computer, since it has to render everything twice instead of once, and so games that you can normally run just fine on the flatscreen might have stutters or other performance issues in VR.

So you might also want to turn down the graphical settings on whatever game you are playing in addition to this.

Anyway to turn off Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling press Windows Key + i to open windows settings, and then navigate to System, then Display, and then Graphics.

The Change default graphics settings link

Once you’re in the graphics menu click the “Change default graphics settings” link as circled above.

This menu lets you turn off Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling

Finally turn off Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling in the Default graphics settings screen and restart your PC for the change to take effect.

You also might notice that certain games won’t appear in the injection dropdown menu when they’re running, for instance the multiplayer military shooter Squad.

While not all Unreal Engine 4 or later games are guaranteed to work, most do, and in the case of those like Squad they may not appear due to the Anti-Cheat client that runs with the game. Anti-Cheats common to multiplayer games like Squad will block the detection and execution of UEVR.

This isn’t a bad thing really, because you could easily be permanently banned from one of these games for suspected cheating by these anti-cheat clients when using UEVR. Though if you really want to run one of them then go to the game’s folder in Steam and run the game application directly, which will run the game with no anti-cheat.

For instance with Squad you’d want to run it from: (Path to your Steam installation)/steamapps/common/Squad/SquadGame/Binaries/Win64/SquadGame.exe. To get the game to show up in the UEVR injector.

This will make playing a Multiplayer game awfully hard, but you can at least mess around in the firing range.

Another day on the firing range

If you’re still having problems running a game in UEVR or getting it work properly then also check out the official UEVR documentation.

There are still a lot of things that might not work as expected, and always keep in mind that this is a mod that covers a lot of games, and so some weirdness is to be expected from time to time.

Whatever Unreal Engine game you decide to try in Virtual Reality with the UEVR mod you should be ready to tackle it now. Enjoy!