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Middle-Aged Gamer: Beat Saber — The Best Game You’re Not Playing
If you’re looking for an entry point into virtual reality that you can realistically justify spending the money for? Look no further than Beat Saber.
Having joined “Team VR” with the arrival of my Oculus Rift for Christmas — I not only learned that virtual reality is a great way to game in the ways before loot boxes and free-to-play nonsense — but also virtual reality can really give you a good work out; if you have the right game.
The name of the right game just happens to be Beat Saber.
Virtual reality games are hard to demonstrate or even explain. Simple Let’s Play type videos on youTube simply aren’t adequate to portray what a game is like when you’re strapped into a headset with ghostly floating controller hands in front of you.
“Seeing is believing” … and that expression is the bread and butter of VR.
But what is this Beat Saber and why are you suddenly (probably) hearing a lot more about it?
Simply put — Beat Saber is a 3D rhythm game where you wield dual light sabers to chop blocks with directional arrows on them in time to great thumping music.
In reality, though … it is so much more.
