As a seasoned gamer of 25 years, there aren’t many times when I feel out of my depth playing something new. For the most part, any player with a solid grasp of how to use a controller’s dual analog sticks effectively can get along just fine playing something for the first time (for most games).
This was not the case when booting up the Meta Quest 3 for the first time. Messing with my old roommate’s Oculus in recent years gave me a bit of a leg up navigating menus, actually playing stuff on the new virtual reality (VR) headset was like starting the hobby from square one. Playing Fruit Ninja VR, Beat Saber, the virtual chatroom Meta Horizon Worlds, and Asgard’s Wrath 2, very few of my skills as an enthusiast transferred directly to the immersive format. Even Enhance Games’ Tetris Effect, a fairly straightforward spin on the puzzler classic, was a bit overwhelming with its trance-like barrage of audiovisual noise.
