BubbleCars

★★★★★ Great potential . . . but This program is a great example of the potential that modern smartphones have as a future VR platform. As a head tracking and stereoscopy demo it delivers 100% but nothing more. I'm excited for the future and hope to see more support for this platform.

★★☆☆☆ How not to do VR games BubbleCars is a game from the producers of the Durovis Dive and tops their list of available software. Considering this the wretched game controls are inexcusable. The tasks seems simple: follow a road, steer by head movement and collect stars. But despite dozens of app restarts, I never found a reliable way to even get the car to start on the street. If you move the phone after the Unity logo appears, the car will basically crash immediately. In the rare cases I got onto the road and properly leaned into curves, the bad physics threw me off again after a few seconds. Currently this is primarily a vomit inducing experience, because most of the time you are just tumbling around in a wildly rotating vehicle. – There is a dire lack of software for Dive, Cardboard etc. Many demos/games will fail completely on some devices due to speed, lacking input or other technical reasons. Unfortunate, but at least understandable. BubbleCars fails not due to technical problems, but due to miserable design. There has been some argument that bad first implementations could put users off Virtual Reality before it even starts. This is one of these bad implementations, and Durovis should remove it.