You uploaded what?!?

So I wanted to try a little experiment ;-)

I recorded the full Braindance tutorial while playing with my upcoming R.E.A.L. VR mod for Cyberpunk 2077. There are some slight spoilers if you have never played the game before, but nothing about the story because this is only a tutorial segment.

Now, conventional wisdom says that you should not put on YouTube VR videos recorded in a format that can viewed in 3D with Google Cardboard, because nobody uses it anymore. It doubles down by ruling that you should not allow game-controlled camera movement in cutscenes or actually at any time in VR, because people might get sick. And it triples down by insisting that most definitely you should never combine the two things.

However, if it were for conventional wisdom and the faint of heart, VR would not even exist. So follow me, if you will, down the rabbit hole for a 3D sneak peek of what an incredible experience Cyberpunk 2077 can be when played fully in VR.

If you don't have Google cardboard, which unfortunately has long been discontinued, clones are quite easy to find for a few bucks on Amazon or eBay. Also, if you watch the video on your phone, there's a trick to see the 3D effect without even needing Cardboard. Just keep the phone at a longer distance from your eyes than you normally would (like grandpa does), and let your eyes slowly unfocus until you start seeing a double image. By moving the phone a little closer or farther, at some point your eyes might begin to refocus on the stereo image. It takes a little practice to do it, and of course with lenses like those on Cardboard you'll get a much larger and in-your-face 3D image, but it can be done!

Technical notes for 3D Stereo lovers: the image is L-R, so it can be seen correctly with parallel viewing, and not cross-eyed. The distortion is the one that the CV1 applies, not precisely the one needed for Cardboard (which is ill-defined anyway because different models used to need different corrections) but it's good enough for government work. I watched all the video with my cheap Cardboard clone and there is no geometric distortion. The 3D is not 100% clean as it would be in the headset, and of course the field of view is smaller, but the experience is remarkably similar to the one you get in the actual PCVR headset.

Enjoy this little chunk of madness!!