https://www.dancecentral.com
New stuff. Cant say I'm excited to dance with a headset on but cant hate them for trying!
New stuff. Cant say I'm excited to dance with a headset on but cant hate them for trying!
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Dance Central coming to Oculus Quest/Rift, Spring 2019
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Coming exclusively to the Oculus Quest and Rift platform this Spring!
With a 32-song soundtrack and specially choreographed routines to get you moving in VR, Dance Central immerses you in the only club where the music never stops. Customize your look, take an in-game selfie, and then show off your moves and full-body avatar to up to three friends in Dance Central's all-new multiplayer modes. Or perfect your routine in the studio before hitting the floor to dance with your favorite Dance Central characters. Dance Central is back!
http://www.harmonixmusic.com/games/dance-central (website not updated)
I'm personally stoked about this. The DC games always had a great charm to them, and I found the display mechanism for the moves was significantly better than Just Dance's.
So happy to see Harmonix not giving up, despite their teams being so tiny compared to years ago. Seems like they're all in on VR stuff, which is understandable, with both Audica and this coming.
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Dance Central got tons of play with my Kinect. It's a great workout, too. Just let me preorder the Quest already, Oculus!
Dance Central was perfect for Kinect.
Don't see the point for VR. It's getting sweaty in the headset and there is no tracking of your body or legs
Don't see the point for VR. It's getting sweaty in the headset and there is no tracking of your body or legs
Loved Dance Central 1 & 2 for Kinect so much. It easily wiped the floor with Just Dance which only tracked your hand. I always thought this was so boring when DC for Kinect tracked everything. It was awesome.
Yeah, whenever I play Beat Saber for a few minutes the headset does get all wet. :p
So this is like a solo player game now? I thought most of the fun was playing with friends. Seems like a perfect fit for Kinect, not so much VR.
Hell yeah, day one. I bought a Kinect on a whim one bored weekend and Dance Central is the only fun I ever had with it lol.
This seems like a bad idea.
It's easy to get sweaty with the VR headset doing even the most basic actions. With all dancing, you'll be wearing a gross sweat boss on your head.
It's easy to get sweaty with the VR headset doing even the most basic actions. With all dancing, you'll be wearing a gross sweat boss on your head.
This feels like a bit of an odd choice for VR for two reasons: the headset strikes me as potentially prohibitive for head movement - particularly if wired - and I'm not sure that a rhythm game hugely benefits from being immersed in a virtual world. Curious to see where they go with it, because they might well be making clever creative choices that I'm not imagining right now.
Edit: Oh, yes, sweat is potentially a concern, too. Hadn't thought of that. I know on PSVR I have to leave it on for a short while to normalise the temperature within before playing else my glasses will steam up, don't know if the PC options have better venting but if not, could get pretty unpleasant in there.
Edit: Oh, yes, sweat is potentially a concern, too. Hadn't thought of that. I know on PSVR I have to leave it on for a short while to normalise the temperature within before playing else my glasses will steam up, don't know if the PC options have better venting but if not, could get pretty unpleasant in there.
Yea, but having a headset on kind of takes you out of the room.
Oculus Quest...oh my god. This is it. The killer app I needed.
I want to get Quest day one now oh my god.
There are loads of exercise games on VR platforms. Yes, you do get sweaty. But there are after market solutions to that if it's a concern but you still want to go all out.
1) Seems like a regression in regards to tracking considering it's merely tracking your position in space via your head and your hands and not taking your feet into consideration which was the only real strength Dance Central had over other dancing titles.
2) You're really going to need to fasten your headset on tight or else you're risking terrible head bob and knocking your headset off.
3) The sweat is going to be a real damn problem. If you think Sprint Vector or Beat Saber got you, oof, this is going to soak ya.
2) You're really going to need to fasten your headset on tight or else you're risking terrible head bob and knocking your headset off.
3) The sweat is going to be a real damn problem. If you think Sprint Vector or Beat Saber got you, oof, this is going to soak ya.
I don't know what Sony is doing not going after them to have both this and Audica on the PSVR.
For me, Dance Central is way better than Just Dance so I'm really happy that Harmonix is continuing with the series. I thought that after Spotlight they had forgot about it. Really good news! Maybe it's time to start considering another VR headset apart from PSVR... :D
For me, Dance Central is way better than Just Dance so I'm really happy that Harmonix is continuing with the series. I thought that after Spotlight they had forgot about it. Really good news! Maybe it's time to start considering another VR headset apart from PSVR... :D
For that matter, I'm mildly surprised there appears to have been no movement towards a VR mode for Amplitude PS4.
RIP my thread header :V
Also echoing the concerns here about no leg tracking. Would absolutely die to see this out for Kinect, but I totally understand why.
Uhhh... Microsoft didn't "make it" that way, Harmonix did... This was also when they were on a massive skeleton staff before Rockband 4 was announced and finally for more income flowing their way.
Also echoing the concerns here about no leg tracking. Would absolutely die to see this out for Kinect, but I totally understand why.
Uhhh... Microsoft didn't "make it" that way, Harmonix did... This was also when they were on a massive skeleton staff before Rockband 4 was announced and finally for more income flowing their way.
i feel like this is going to encourage more leg movement than is probably safe while blindly moving around your living room.
Should have been a Vive game with support for tracker pucks. Oculus needs a solution for this, I don't see much of a point to a dancing game that only tracks your hands. I could just play Just Dance if I wanted something dumb and shallow.
Ah, didnt know about the skeleton staff. I figured with all the blunders within the xbox division at the time Microsoft had to be responsible. Im glad Dance Central is no a dead series. I will miss the Kinect's ability to detect leg movement.
Hands-On: https://uploadvr.com/dance-central-vr-preview/
I thought this was pretty interesting:
The soundtrack has some surprisingly new and big titles, imo:
This probably explains how they secured that track list (beat saber am cry):
I thought this was pretty interesting:
The soundtrack has some surprisingly new and big titles, imo:
This probably explains how they secured that track list (beat saber am cry):
Yes! I love these types of games in VR specifically, some of the most fun I've had with the platform.
Oh shit, Im so in for this. Love dancing to Just Dance YT videos, but this seems even better.
Hoping people will be able to mod songs into it.
Hoping people will be able to mod songs into it.
Never played Dance Central but in general I love Harmonix and I'm getting a Quest, so fuck it I'll give it a shot.
Oculus is doing a launch countdown blog where they highlight the games coming to Quest: https://www.oculus.com/blog/quest-countdown/
First titles highlighted:
First titles highlighted:
- Superhot
- Space Pirate Trainer (didn't know this was coming)
- Shadow Point (a room scale puzzler narrated by some guy named Patrick Stewart)
- Dead and Buried 2
- Dance Central
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The GDC demo was two songs long and felt like it'd been set to ultra-easy mode. I'm curious whether the entire game will feel a little simplified to compensate for the whole wearing-a-headset weight factor.
The biggest issue I had was an utter lack of visual feedback on whether my own hand/head motions mapped to the dancer in front of me or not. You just look ahead at the dancer, try to mimic their motions, and see a word indicating whether you're in sync or not; I couldn't make out the kind of limb-specific color feedback that I appreciated in the Kinect originals. Now that the game is in a fully VR world, why not include some ghost trails of our hands to indicate what we're doing right or wrong?
Something about it didn't feel quite right in this early state, and my bandwidth for forgiving Harmonix with in-development games has faded in the past five years.
The biggest issue I had was an utter lack of visual feedback on whether my own hand/head motions mapped to the dancer in front of me or not. You just look ahead at the dancer, try to mimic their motions, and see a word indicating whether you're in sync or not; I couldn't make out the kind of limb-specific color feedback that I appreciated in the Kinect originals. Now that the game is in a fully VR world, why not include some ghost trails of our hands to indicate what we're doing right or wrong?
Something about it didn't feel quite right in this early state, and my bandwidth for forgiving Harmonix with in-development games has faded in the past five years.