Walkabout Mini Golf Is The Best Way To Spend Time With Family Or Friends In VR

Stimulating conversation in simulation.

Walkabout Mini Golf is made for VR in VR using Gravity Sketch.

The innate sense of scale and distance designers experience architecting a course from simple shapes they make in headsets translates to awe and charm for visitors on opening day more than a year later. Over that time, skilled artists are given dominion over the emerging space in rotation so they can add their own layer of surprise to each design.

The focused effort to create “the context for humans to interact with one another”, as art director Don Carson has said, means fans trust Walkabout when the studio releases a new add-on course for $5.

This virtuous production and release cycle is a critical barometer of the VR market, showing players returning regularly with cash in hand to explore eclectic destinations spanning the familiar, like Hollywood and Venice, to mind-melting excursions in Upside Town and Meow Wolf. Walkabout is accessible with a single controller becoming a putter resizing itself to the greens and it is impossible to get lost in VR with just a trigger pull back to your ball.

Pick a room name as a private address in virtual reality and then spend an hour with family and friends in a realm far away from the physical world. The real skill to practice is not putting but conversation, because in Walkabout you interact as much with the environment as you do the people you are with in VR.

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