Dear Esther En El Oculus Rift - Parte 1 - 2d

Hi, how are you? What we are showing you today is not a game, is not a demo, is a living piece of art, an experience a story in which we are both spectator and main character It does not have native Oculus Rift support however it works incredibly well with Vireio And without a doubt it offers one of the greatest presence feelings in virtual reality It's one of the most impressive we have ever seen, it's the experience, I think it left a lasting mark on me, the biggest since I have the Oculus Rift Dear Esther... "Dear Esther..." "The morning after I was washed ashore" "salt in my ears" "sand in my mouth" "and the waves always at my ankles" "I felt as though everything had conspired to this one last shipwreck" "I remembered nothing but water" "stones in my belly and my shoes threatening to drag me under to where" "only the most listless of creatures swim" That was the voice of José Francisco Castellano who put his voice to the main character in Dear Esther in an altruist way, for the community by using the extraordinary translation from Francisco J. Galdo By the way, he is my colleage at the Steam Translation Server, from Valve and I want to send a big hug to him and I congratulate him because it's not easy at all to make such a great translation from such a difficult script like Dear Esther's Let's get moving The flashlight is automatically enabled Look how the sound just changed The wind, some noises I can't get up there What I was telling you before... Look at that seagull It's more important that you may think It starts flying and gets away And we start hearing the sea again What I was telling you at the intro With Dear Esther We can't talk about immersion anymore, but presence because what this... I was going to say "game" but this is no game, it's no demo, it's it's an experience Nothing else makes us feel this way We really feel we are stepping this road, these stones this grass And it's not easy to say how it achieves that goal Maybe it's simply because of the incredible artistic work that someone put on it You can feel it in every stone, in every detail, in every texture, in every blade of grass And I had never felt to be inside inside a game or demo or experience, not this way Not like Dear Esther Can you see that light? That blinks on the horizon? That's where we must go In our quest for redemption Why? We will find it out Let's go Dear Esther cares for each and every detail, even the tiniest Regarding graphics, environments, sound It's incredible the love that they have put into this experience You can feel its quality in every bit of it "Those islands in the distance" "I am sure" "are nothing more than relics of another time" "sleeping giants" "somnambulist gods laid down for a final dreaming" "I wash the sand from my lips and grip my wrist ever more tightly" "my shaking arms" "will not support my fading diaries" "I have found the ship’s manifest" "crumpled and waterlogged" "under a stash of paint cans" "It tells me that along with this present cargo" "there was a large quantity of antacid yoghurt" "bound for the European market" "It must have washed out to sea" "God knows there are no longer gulls" "or goats here to eat it" A car door How did it get here? This is an important detail It may not look very special, but this climb is absolutely incredible The feeling of the banister, the grass Presence: this is called presence Being here Look at those floating particles Incredible, really incredible "The mount is clearly the focal point of this landscape" "it almost appears so well placed as to be artificial" "I find myself easily slipping" "into the delusional state of ascribing purpose" "deliberate motive to everything here" "Was this island formed during the moment of impact" "when we were torn loose from our moorings" "and the seatbelts cut motorway lanes into our chests and shoulders?" "did it first break surface then?" The impact, the seat belts... "When someone had died or was dying" "or was so ill they gave up what little hope" "they could sacrifice" "they cut parallel lines into the cliff" "exposing the white chalk beneath" "With the right eyes" "from the mainland or the fishing boats" "you could see them" "and know to send aid" "or impose a cordon of protection, and wait a generation" "until whatever pestilence stalked the cliff paths" "died along with its hosts" "My lines are just for this: to keep any would-be rescuers at bay" "The infection" "is not simply of the flesh" We know something more about a car accident We saw a car door before, and the narrator said something He talked about remorse This zone is... they remind me of Stonehenge The river... we will look at it more closely But this... this experience makes me feel things that I had never experienced before on a computer This slope is simply amazing "Dear Esther" "I met Paul" "I made my own little pilgrimage. My Damascus" "a small semi-detached on the outskirts of Wolverhampton" "We drank coffee in his kitchen and tried to connect to one another" "Although he knew I hadn’t come in search of an apology" "reason" "or retribution" "he still spiralled in panic" "thrown high and lucid by his own dented bonnet" "Responsibility had made him old" "like us" "he had already passed beyond any conceivable boundary of life" Damascus, a biblical reference Someone is looking for absolution and pardon "I find myself increasingly unable to find that point where" "the hermit ends" "and Paul and I begin" "We are woven into a sodden blanket" "stuffed into the bottom of a boat" "to stop the leak and hold back the ocean" "My neck aches from staring up at the aerial" "it mirrors the dull throb in my gut" "where I am sure I have begun to form another stone" "In my dreams, it forms into a perfect representation of Lot’s wife" "head over her shoulder" "staring along the motorway at the approaching traffic" "in a vacuum of fatalistic calm" These drawings can't be drawn by a human being, like this one Dear Esther is quite ambiguous, as a matter of fact, its creators said that they made it that way on purpose, the plot is not clearly defined Everyone can guess their own story We are simple spectators of a tragical and incredible story We feel we have been transported to a daydream world The word I'm looking for is: believable Everything around me, like this stream that is flowing by my side Valve's Source engine draws water especially well, even though it's quite old And this stream really appears to be here by my side But it's not only the stream: it's everything every detail every bush every stone the water surrounds the stones These particles floating in the air The sum of everything turns Dear Esther in an experience... "The vegetation here has fossilized from the roots up" "To think they once grazed animals here" "the remnants of occupation being evidence to that" "It is all sick to death" "the water is too polluted for the fish" "the sky is too thin for the birds" "and the soil is cut with the bones of hermits and shepherds" "I have heard it said that human ashes make great fertilizer" "that we could sow a great forest from all that is left" "of your hips and ribcage" "with enough left over to thicken the air" "and repopulate the bay" Presence... this is true presence I had never felt before being in a different place like I'm feeling right now Look at the stream source inside that small cave Look how it follows its course! Can you hear the sound of the water? It's totally believable! Every texture, every blade of grass has been perfectly set every small detail on the soil "Dear Esther" "I have now driven the stretch of the M5" "between Exeter and Bristol over twenty-one times" "but although I have all the reports and all the witnesses" "and have cross-referenced them within a millimetre" "using my ordnance survey maps" "I simply cannot find the location" "You’d think there would be marks to serve as some evidence" "It's somewhere between the turn off for Sandford and the Welcome Break services" "But although I can always see it in my rear view mirror" "I have as yet been unable to pull ashore" That M5 section makes reference to the place of the accident "I had kidney stones, and you visited me in the hospital" "After the operation" "when I was still half submerged in anaesthetic" "your outline and your speech both blurred" "Now my stones have grown into an island" "and made their escape" "and you have been rendered opaque" "by the car of a drunk" The car of a drunk But who is that drunk? Look at that house "I have begun to climb, away from the sea and towards the centre" "It is a straight line to the summit" "where the evening begins to coil around the aerial" "and squeeze the signals into early silence" "The bothy squats against the mount to avoid the gaze of the aerial" "I too will creep under the island like an animal" "and approach it from the northern shore" What a view! "The bothy was constructed originally in the early 1700s" "By then, shepherding had formalised into a career" "The first habitual shepherd was a man called Jacobson," "from a lineage of migratory Scandinavians" "He was not considered a man of breeding by the mainlanders" "He came here every summer whilst building the bothy" "hoping, eventually, that becoming a man of property" "would secure him a wife and a lineage" "Donnelly records that it did not work" "he caught some disease from his malcontented goats" "and died two years after completing it" "There was no one to carve white lines into the cliff for him either" "When the oil lamps ran out" "I didn’t pick up a torch" "but used the moonlight to read by" "When I have pulled the last shreds of sense from it" "I will throw Donnelly’s book from the cliffs" "and perhaps myself with it" "Maybe it will wash back up through the caves" "and erupt from the spring when the rain comes" "making its return to the hermits cave" "Perhaps it will be back on the table when I wake" "I think I may have thrown it into the sea several times before" What a piece of art! Look at this path! "Jakobson’s ribcage" "they told Donnelly" "was deformed" "the result of some birth defect" "or perhaps a traumatic injury as a child" "Brittle and overblown it was, and desperately light" "Perhaps it was this that finally did for him" "unable to contain the shattering of his heart" "In halflight, his skeleton a discarded prop" "a false and calcified sea bird" It's amazing, really amazing just when you think nothing else can surprise you in virtual reality, not with the kind of devices that we have today, then you find a treasure like Dear Esther "Climbing down to the caves" "I slipped and fell" "and have injured my leg" "I think the femur is broken. It is clearly infected" "the skin has turned a bright, tight pink" "and the pain is crashing in on waves" "winter tides against my shoreline" "drowning out the ache of my stones" "I struggled back to the bothy to rest" "but it has become clear that there is only one way this is likely to end" "The medical supplies I looted from the trawler" "have suddenly found their purpose" "they will keep me lucid for my final ascent" This is the fall the narrator was talking about We are going to enter in a zone That made my jaw drop to the floor the first time I saw it The most spectacular part of Dear Esther The caves