Welcome to Light Fields

Welcome to Light Fields

Released Mar 2018

Welcome to Light Fields. Experience real-world reflections, depth, and translucence like never before in VR. Explore the Gamble House, Mosaic Tile House, and the Space Shuttle Discovery. These navigable stills showcase the emerging technology Google is using to power its next generation of VR content.

95% positive · 282 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

Welcome to Light Fields is a free VR experience released by Google on March 14, 2018. The store description presents it as a self-contained showcase of Google's light field technology, offering three explorable environments: the Gamble House, Mosaic Tile House, and Space Shuttle Discovery. The language used — "navigable stills" and "emerging technology Google is using to power its next generation of VR content" — frames this as a technology demonstration rather than a game with an ongoing content roadmap. All four developer news posts date from March 15–16, 2018 — the two days immediately following launch — and consist entirely of system requirement clarifications and compatibility patches. There have been no developer communications of any kind since March 16, 2018, and no post-launch content updates, DLC, or expansions have ever been released or announced. Google has made no statements about future content or additional environments. This app launched as a finished, self-contained product and has operated without any post-launch content additions across its entire lifetime on Steam. It is complete as shipped.
Evidence
Store description presents a fixed set of three explorable environments, framed as a technology showcase with no mention of future content or updates
description source development ending
high
Developer released a compatibility patch removing the AVX2 hard requirement; this is the last known communication from the developer
news post · Mar 16, 2018 source development ongoing
low

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Google
Achievements
—
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player

About this game

Welcome to Light Fields. Experience real-world reflections, depth, and translucence like never before in VR. Explore the Gamble House, Mosaic Tile House, and the Space Shuttle Discovery. These navigable stills showcase the emerging technology Google is using to power its next generation of VR content.
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