In April, during quarantine, Infinite.cz was so kind and provided me with Oculus Rift. My intention was to use it to play Beat Saber - a rhythm game I longed to play since like forever. I was still recovering from the corona virus at the time but starting the second week in April I was able to start physical activity and that also meant playing Beat Saber for real. While trying to find some information about Beat Saber I landed on Beat Saber's twitter account finding out about a 30 Day Challenge that just started. I wanted to participate and didn't want to post it publicly but on day 3 I decided that maybe I could actually do it because it would keep me committed.
Since I didn't make majority of the videos public on YouTube I decided to create this post with all the videos.
This challenge was actually way more beneficial for me than I expected in all kinds of ways. Since I just started playing Beat Saber you should be able to see some progress. I started playing on Expert so maybe the progress may not be that obvious in my videos. On day 1 I did not expect to pass any song on Expert+. On day 3 I passed 7 different songs on Expert+ thinking that passing any Camellia song on Expert won't ever happen. A week later I had B grade or higher on all the songs but GHOST and Cycle Hit. There is still a lot of room for improvement and I plan on passing all Camellia songs on Expert+ one day.
The challenges also made me discover One Saber Mode. Unlimited Power on Day 2 was quite painful for me. Not only because I struggled with that particular song on any difficulty but also because that strain on my arms was too much. Even though I play other games with my hands/arms I wasn't used for that kind of motion range. It also made me realize that knowing the right trajectory for the sabers to hit notes properly is more important than I initially thought. Thanks to that I learned how to stream which was the primary reason why I was failing Camellia songs.
When trying to Full Combo songs I had to pay more attention to when and how I hit the notes. There were notes I was pretty much missing all the time and this forced me to analyze why and change my play style accordingly. Now I don't have problems with the notes that fly somewhere above my head.
Those are just examples of what I managed to learn or realize and I doubt I would have discovered that without doing this 30 Day Challenge.
Since I was streaming and uploading at least one video per day and I wanted the videos to be watchable and not making other people motion sick. That's how I ended up playing around with avatars and mixed reality capture. I used LIV for both and thanks to Infinite.cz again, I was able to get my hands on Kinect camera. I didn't manage to calibrate the camera the way I wanted but considering my play area the result was actually good. As for avatars, I got curious about how to create an avatar and how to import it into mixed reality recording. I learned about VRoid Studio and installed Blender for modelling and Unity for creating a game object and I'm considering creating more 3d content in the near future. I created an avatar for me and my flatmate and I have to say that I am glad I did this. This 30 day challenge gave me something to do and I wanted to do it. For years I've been depressed and not having the motivation to do anything. Not even playing games I liked and this changed that.
Thank you Beat Games Studio for Beat Saber and this challenge. For that one month I found the will to live because there was something I was looking forward to and everything became easier because of that and I hope it will stay that way. That I alone will be able to find more challenges for myself and keep me busy and keep depression at bay.
Here are the 30 videos I recorded. I'm not proud of some but completing this challenge felt rewarding.
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