I picked up a PSVR today like a lot of people (well, Amazon dropped it off) and after messing around with Superhypercube for a little bit I decided to give Harmonix Music VR a chance, since I just wanted to enjoy looking at the pretty scenery for awhile. The beach mode was...just ok...with some nice visuals but nothing particularly mind blowing.

Then I tried easel mode and...boom. Mind blown. Using two move controllers you draw 3D lines (or other shapes...it comes with multiple brushes) with one hand and you can move your creations around the space with the other. You can toss the shapes, pull them towards you, play with them like they were actual objects. It works pretty darn well within the somewhat limited confines of PSVR and it did a really good job of convincing my brain that I was in an actual physical space.

I was blown away. And I'm not someone who gets blown away. I said "Wow" and "Holy crap." I jumped out of my chair so I could paint over a larger area. I grinned like a maniac, made virtual shapes and tossed them away only to make more, while some pretty decent tunes blared in my ear.

Nobody seems to be talking about this...experience (calling it a game is a little bit overselling) but for me it made VR click in a way that none of the videos or descriptions or other stuff I messed around with did. It made me glad I got my VR headset because even if this first generation doesn't have any true "killer apps" I at least now understand what makes VR so cool and how it works. I think it's also a fantastic "Show off app" to get other people to try VR, since it requires zero gaming skills and is appropriate for all ages.

I am super impressed and am definitely going to be spending more time with this thing.

It's getting a lot of flack in reviews and I guess I get that because it's just a tech demo, not really a game, but for $15 I definitely have no regrets. And it made me feel a lot better about the $400 I dropped on the headset itself.

It really was an awe inspiring experience. I'm still kind of elated like half an hour later and I can't wait to get back into it tomorrow night. Obviously I can't promise your experiences will be the same, but if you find yourself with a PSVR and wanting a cool...thing...to do with it, I'd highly recommend this.

I went from "I guess this is kind of cool" with Superhypercube (which is definitely neat in its own way) to "Whoa! VR is the future of entertainment!" in about 15 minutes.

It's early days right now, but I can't imagine that 5 or 10 years from now there aren't going to be life-changing VR experiences. In 10 years we went from PS1 to Xbox 360, Imagining a leap anywhere close to that for VR is...almost scary.