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> Beat Saber and Minecraft have little in common.

They're both high profile VR games.

Missing the point. Minecraft started as a creative style game that hit massive popularity in all age groups, and encouraged players to build to their heart's content without much of a goal. It didn't start in VR as well.

Beat Sabor is one of the first "killer app" VR games, with a clear goal with emphasis on reaction time and immersion using the VR tech behind it.

Both are played very differently, the former a game you come back to to refine your work over and over in a creative way, the other using reaction time to score better.

> using reaction time to score better

Having never heard of Beat Sabor, this made me think it sounds like Guitar Hero. YouTube confirms. I really did not ever get the appeal of GH, but BS looks pretty fun.

> Missing the point.

Missing the point, or making a joke?

I misread "Minecraft" as "Minesweeper" and was briefly bewildered by the idea of Minesweeper VR. Kinda want to play that now.

I feel like there's so many games that can be VR-ified like this. Even if it's just a first person, point to a square on the floor and click, sort of game, I feel like more innovation can build on top of traditional games like minesweeper starting with that.

Dress it up as bomb disposal, big scary explosion when you mess up, you get uncomfortably thrown into the sky, could be great.

Not a bad idea to refine your VR mechanics, after all, word is that they were added to Windows originally to help people refine their mouse skills

Classic Minesweeper mechanics transposed onto a realistic minefield environment would be amazing.

Complete with Surgeon Simulator-style disarming of the mines!

That would be amazing!

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