Any VR games with multiple players sharing the same real and game space?

[Ninja Turtle]

I'm planning to seriously pimp out my basement. I have enough space and people with their own VR setups that we can easily bring over and have a VR Lan Party.

I was wondering if you guys could recommend any fun multiplayer games for a VR Lan Party? Are there any games that share the same space in game and IRL? Space and tech is not an issue, but I'm fairly new to VR.

Please help. :D

[Sticky Honeybuns]

There are lots of games that do what you are talking about. Some that come to mind are:

Arizona Sunshine
Rec room
Quiver
Onward
Alt space
Vivecraft

There are plenty more as well.

[Amylion]

I think he is asking about games, where the virtual area of each player is linked to all the others, so that each virtual avatar represents the actual physical position of its player. I don't know of such games.

[Major_Troubles]

Originally posted by ♌ Zulwarn:

I'm planning to seriously pimp out my basement. I have enough space and people with their own VR setups that we can easily bring over and have a VR Lan Party.

I was wondering if you guys could recommend any fun multiplayer games for a VR Lan Party? Are there any games that share the same space in game and IRL? Space and tech is not an issue, but I'm fairly new to VR.

Please help. :D

Occlusion will be an issue if you have more than two (or even more than one) player in the same play space.

Hover Junkers can do that for you. In that game you can have two players on the same hover ship and since the game does not offer teleportation, the position on the ship should fit the position IRL. So you can have one friend over and play in the same play space. If your basement is big enough, you could set up two play spaces (with a curtain separating them) and have four people, 2+2, etc.
It's hard to find online matches but if you are actually a group of people (4+) you could always play just you and not rely on others (unlike me who does not have any friends IRL that own a VR headset and needs random people to play with).

[Vanimals Games]

Try this hardcore multiplayer action VR game - both gamers can play with the same pair of lighthouses.

Eternity Warriors VR.

Definitely sufficient for a party, and both of you can work out a bit.

(we are the dev team)

[Ninja Turtle]

Originally posted by Amylion:

I think he is asking about games, where the virtual area of each player is linked to all the others, so that each virtual avatar represents the actual physical position of its player. I don't know of such games.

yes, this is exactly what I have in mind.

[Ninja Turtle]

Originally posted by Major_Troubles:

Originally posted by ♌ Zulwarn:

I'm planning to seriously pimp out my basement. I have enough space and people with their own VR setups that we can easily bring over and have a VR Lan Party.

I was wondering if you guys could recommend any fun multiplayer games for a VR Lan Party? Are there any games that share the same space in game and IRL? Space and tech is not an issue, but I'm fairly new to VR.

Please help. :D

Occlusion will be an issue if you have more than two (or even more than one) player in the same play space.

Hover Junkers can do that for you. In that game you can have two players on the same hover ship and since the game does not offer teleportation, the position on the ship should fit the position IRL. So you can have one friend over and play in the same play space. If your basement is big enough, you could set up two play spaces (with a curtain separating them) and have four people, 2+2, etc.
It's hard to find online matches but if you are actually a group of people (4+) you could always play just you and not rely on others (unlike me who does not have any friends IRL that own a VR headset and needs random people to play with).

this sounds like a good idea. I'll check it out! Thank you!

[Ninja Turtle]

Originally posted by Sticky Honeybuns:

There are lots of games that do what you are talking about. Some that come to mind are:

Arizona Sunshine
Rec room
Quiver
Onward
Alt space
Vivecraft

There are plenty more as well.

Thank you, I'll check out all of these. Arizona Sunshine, I have heard of. It seems awesome

[Ninja Turtle]

Originally posted by Vanimals Games:

Try this hardcore multiplayer action VR game - both gamers can play with the same pair of lighthouses.

Eternity Warriors VR.

Definitely sufficient for a party, and both of you can work out a bit.

(we are the dev team)

Oh hey! Your game looks sick! Nice graphics and aesthetics. So my type :D

What is the maximum number of people I can put in a room and play this game together? And by together I mean same level at the same time :)

[Ninja Turtle]

https://zerolatencyvr.com/

^this is awesome. Can I do that with HTC vive?

[Sticky Honeybuns]

OP, Valve just detailed info on their base stations 2.0. They will allow for four base stations in a single room with a max play space of 10m by 10m. This would obviously be a great setup for multiplayer games. This will also help prevent occlusion from multiple players.

[Vanimals Games]

Zulman, it supports two players playing at the same time in the same missions. Given the current user base we didn't do 3-player or 4-player yet. But it's not a technical issue just to clarify. :)

[Ninja Turtle]

Originally posted by Sticky Honeybuns:

OP, Valve just detailed info on their base stations 2.0. They will allow for four base stations in a single room with a max play space of 10m by 10m. This would obviously be a great setup for multiplayer games. This will also help prevent occlusion from multiple players.

so you're saying true multiplayer VR is just around the corner eh? Sweet.

[Ninja Turtle]

Originally posted by Vanimals Games:

Zulman, it supports two players playing at the same time in the same missions. Given the current user base we didn't do 3-player or 4-player yet. But it's not a technical issue just to clarify. :)

Ah, that's awesome. I would still love 2+ player support but I suppose it'll be worth it to wait and see where the devs take multiplayer VR scene. Hopefully someday we'll be able to have a VR lan party and trip the bleep out

[Enorats]

To be clear, the OP is asking about two or more people occupying the same real world area. As in, sharing a play area. He is not asking about online multiplayer VR games, which are fairly plentiful.

To my knowledge, there are no such games. I'm not even sure how you'd go about setting it up, as the headsets aren't really designed to work like that. You'd also need to set up multiple computers outside the play area, and have to deal with multiple sets of cords strewn about.

There's also the issue of occlusion. If we were sharing a play area, and I moved in between you and your sensors, your headset/controllers would lose tracking momentarily and the game would display error messages.

Worse still, there's the issue of not being able to accurately see one another. An avatar in game is hardly an accurate enough representation to avoid harming one another with wild swings of an arm or the like. You're also not likely to keep the other player in your field of vision at all times, or be aware of one another's presence in the way we are in reality. Your senses in VR are just too limited for that.

In short, this sort of setup would be incredibly inconvenient at best, and more likely than not a disaster waiting to seriously injure someone.

Finally, developing a game to support such a setup wouldn't be very economical. Relatively few people have VR headsets to begin with, and an absolutely miniscule number of people know groups of people with VR headsets.. let alone groups of people with VR headsets willing to tear down their entire setup and take it somewhere else to share a playspace. Because of this, it's not really a good feature to add to a game because practically nobody would ever benefit from it.

[Vanimals Games]

Eternity Warriors VR supports both online and LAN gameplay. The game was shipped to VR arcades in Asia first, its demo version.