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Can confirm, there is no Slime Go issue here :) If you are looking to play the original, the 25th Anniversary edition also avoids this problem and is available on PC, Switch and iOS.

There are a couple answers in this interview with the game’s director, Paul van der Meer, and art director, Jeroen Backx that might help you make up your mind on this.

https://www.heypoorplayer.com/2023/10/11/the-7th-guest-vr-an...

A concrete answer on this would be too far into the spoiler zone. In my personal opinion the overall tone is very faithful to the original, and I think a broad range of players should be able to enjoy it.

Thanks, and agreed! VR is great for adventure games! There are a broad range of puzzles and I certainly don’t want to spoil anything. There was an ambition to give a uncommon level of physical responsiveness between your hands and the world. This presented a great technical challenge, and I’m proud of work the team has done there.

The AVV technology and Holomesh are developed by Arcturus. During the technology’s development there was close collaboration between Vertigo Games Rotterdam (who initiated the project with Trilobyte and handled the creative aspects - design, art, music and video production), Arcturus and my employer Exkee, where we handled the technical/code side of things. Vertigo could speak more to the capture and production side of things. On the tech side Arcturus were wonderful to work with. We couldn’t have done it without them, and I am excited to see where things go next.

This I would love to see!

Thanks! Great work on shipping Beyond! We’ve had really positive feedback from players who love the clarity they are able to achieve there.

I’m happy to say that I have trouble recommending one version over another. We’ve optimised the experience for each one. Your PC in all likelyhood has more raw horsepower, which we do use in various ways. But the Quest version comes with its own advantages in terms of autonomy and ease of use, the Quest 3 especially is a great piece of hardware that I’m excited for more people to get their hands on.

There is an almost entirely new set of puzzles, built from the ground up for VR, with many nods to the original.

Jonathan van den Wijngaarden has collaborated with George “The Fat Man” Sanger to produce a wonderful new soundtrack.

Thanks for letting me know, this is being escalated. For now the launch trailer can be seen here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jsuDYswhtaE

Yes, all newly recorded material! As noted by Keyframe below, the video quality and compression tech was very impressive 30 years ago, we wanted to try to deliver something equally new in 2023.

Lead Developer here, for those curious there is a great video on the inner workings of the project’s volumetric video here. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FjbngDVdL6s

You beauty, this one's going straight to the pool room!

Meta Inc (formerly Sciencescape Inc) was purchase by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative in 2017, suggesting that the rebrand has been some time in the works.

Just picked up some XM3s last week. It’s the most I’ve ever spent on headphones, but as soon as I tried them on and the noise cancelling kicked in I knew it was money well spent. A little bit of high frequency still comes through but it works so well that the initial experience is a little eerie. I’m prone to finding many headphones apply too much pressure to the top and sides very quickly, these I can happily use for a few hours at a time. I’m not an audiophile by any stretch but I have found other Bluetooth headphones I’ve tried pretty lacking, and streaming with LDAC on these sounds really great to me, if a touch cool/clinical. Bass is well handled as long as you’re not producing, it isn’t monitor level flat, nor Beats muddy. Touch interface takes some getting used to, I’d probably prefer buttons, but it does avoid applying lateral pressure so it’s a win on the comfort front. I haven’t tried competing high end ACN products from Bose and Shure (wasn’t possible do to Covid restrictions here), but you won’t be disappointed with these… or the XM4 presumably, the 100€ premium was hard to justify for me.