Interacting with books in VR

[PlutoniumBoss]

I tried out VR mode on a Rift S, I was in Gehn's Lab and I couldn't figure out how to read the journal. I could pick it up by the spine and it opened in my grip, but I couldn't figure out how to turn the pages.

[jojon]

Hover the free hand near the edge of the page; It will turn yellow to indicate when it's in an interaction zone. Then close that hand or hold the trigger, move it sideways over to the other side at a fair clip, and let go.

You can also try to grab the page and move it over in a more controlled manner, but the tether between hand and page is a bit of a mystery to me -- it feels like trying to move a bar of soap by manipulating it through another bar of soap, through another bar of soap, through ten more intermediating... Don't be surprised if the page snaps right back to where it started out through no intention of yours... Interaction is overall very clunky, as were it in Cyan's previous VR-enabled games, but it works if one think of it more as drawing magic sigils in the air, which represent what you are trying to do, rather than actually touching objects... :P

[Konscience]

Yes book handling isn't really great, not sure if there's a preferred way to provide feedback however...
Would totally like to see some stabilization (cause when hands are shaking the book shakes a lot).
And also make it harder to loose grip on the book, i had to grab back the first book in the satchel a dozen time to finish reading it completely because i was maybe loosening my grip by a fraction, or imputing accidentally some gesture on my Index controllers.

[explosion party]

I find it weird that book handling felt waaaay easier in Myst VR. I struggle a lot with turning pages in Riven

[@lbert]

It also lacks the possibility of taking screenshots, it's hard without

[Konscience]

Originally posted by @lbert:

It also lacks the possibility of taking screenshots, it's hard without

You can take screenshots in two ways,
Either open the game pause (button A) and select screenshot to notebook
Or, press on your controller the menu and trigger at the same time to take a Steam screenshot

[jojon]

...and once again one wish one could pull up those screenshots in-gameworld, holding them up, and spreading a handful of them a surface, and scribble on them with a virtual pencil, rather than exiting the world context to flick through menus, but it is what it is, and what development resources could be afforded. :7