The New York Times enters the realm of VR and gamers can rejoice with Octodad serving up some wacky fun; these two apps are worlds apart in their intended function, but both offer their users the best form of new entertainment to enjoy on their smart phones.
With YouTube just newly having entered the VR realm via their latest update that now adds depth to visuals in certain specified videos while viewed through Google’s Cardboard, the New York Times were not about to be left out of presenting the news via the latest in visual technology. The news platform is now offering a reality news report via NYT VR, the new service will be debuting with a touching short clip focused around the plight of 30 million child refugees deserted around the world to visually illustrate the advantages of experiential journalism.
The New York Times latest service in visual technology can be best experienced in immersive VR via Google’s cardboard viewer, however viewers will still be able to continue watching the same videos on their phones in full-screen mode. The latest services not just a great and quite historical moment for the New York Times, but represents an equally momentous occasion for Google cardboard for whom the conception of original VR journalistic reporting by an eminent news publication house like the New York Times assists in validating Google’s 3D cardboard glasses.
Octodad offers up hare brained scenario with plenty of stumbling fun through numerous scenarios, thereby delivering a slightly more upbeat video game subject that will allow players to laugh at their slightly offbeat sim character that features an octopus simulating human-like behavior via Octodad: Dadliest Catch. Players will enjoy the hilarious antics that the character is forced to endure in order to keep up your pretense, where you as an octopus has been posing as a human husband and father for years. Somehow, he’s kept the illusion alive throughout the years and now require your help to continue blending into modern society by exploring the aquarium, supermarket as well as numerous modern-day suburban hot spots.
Gameplay is hysterically funny, particularly when you destroy a wedding reception, or even simply trying to walk in a straight line, and even the continual slipping on inconveniently placed banana peels during your effort to evade one very angry butcher, gameplay is a blast.