Did you just received your brand new Meta Quest 3 VR/MR headset? And you are not sure what games or apps that you must try first? Well, sometimes, it can be quite tricky since some games or apps can make you feel nausea or motion sickness easily. If that happen, you might get discourage to continue using it and feel like you are wasting your money buying it. No worry, guys. In this article, we will share with you the best Meta Quest 3 games and apps for beginner and newbie like you…
List of Games & Apps for VR Beginner…
1) First Steps
If you are new to virtual reality, First Steps is a must-try apps for you. The main purpose of this apps is have you onboard properly to virtual world.
There is also tutorial session on how you can hold and use your controllers in a correct way. From there, you’ll get to know which one is the “Trigger” and which one is the “Grip“.
After you have done the tutorial, you will be introduced to two VR worlds. One is the shooting arena and one is the dancing place like a disco. It’s pretty fun actually 🙂
Why suitable for Beginner or Newbie?
Well, it is like your first baby steps to VR world. Nevertheless, you can still skip this apps but it will be much better if you know how to handle your controllers properly and know the functions of buttons on it. Take this as a formality before you start venturing on your own 🙂
Price: Free at Meta Quest Store (as of 21st November 2024)
Official Website: http://www.oculus.com/
2) First Hand
First Hand allows you to use your hands to interact with the virtual world directly. In order for you to build the robotic gloves, you need to solve puzzles using switches, levers and virtual UIs.
Why suitable for Beginner or Newbie?
This apps will let you familiarize with the hand gesture tracking capability that can make your virtual reality experience become more natural and awesome!
Price: Free at Meta Quest Store (as of 21st November 2024)
Official Website: https://developers.meta.com/horizon/
3) Beat Saber
Beat Saber is a rhythmic VR game where you need to slash the cubes coming towards you and also at some points need to avoid the incoming obstacles.
Why suitable for Beginner or Newbie?
This game is very, very popular as the first entry point to the VR world especially for newbie and beginner since the first Oculus Quest headset. The game is pretty simple where you just need to move or swing your hands and do your dancing move while enjoying the game and the song.
Price: $ 29.99 USD at Meta Quest Store (as of 21st November 2024)
Official Website: http://beatsaber.com/
4) Richie’s Plank Experience
Richie’s Plank Experience is a game designed to simulate the feeling of height. To test your fear of heights, you will walk the plank on top of a building, 80 stories high. Beside walking on that plank, you can also do some flying like “Iron Man” as well. It is a short and fun game to entertain your friends, family and guests.
Why suitable for Beginner or Newbie?
The game is really simple to play. As easy as pushing the lift button and walk in a straight line. Furthermore, you’ll be amazed by how VR and MR (Mixed Reality) technology can make you feel like you are really at the top of the building.
Price: $ 15.99 USD at Meta Quest Store (as of 21st November 2024)
Official Website: https://toastinteractive.com/
5) Real VR Fishing
This is another good entry point for the metaverse world. Real VR Fishing is a fishing simulator with great, realistic scenery and graphics. Every time you catch the fish, you can release them in your personal virtual aquarium. Nice!
For your info, this game once voted as Facebook Oculus Game of the Year 2019.
Why this game suitable for Beginner or Newbie?
It is relaxing and easy to play. You don’t have to worry about motion sickness or dizziness in this game. But it can test your patience getting the fish on hook.
Price: $ 19.99 USD at Meta Quest Store (as of 21st November 2024)
Official Website: https://www.realvrfishing.com/
6) ForeVR Bowl
Another good virtual reality game for beginner is ForeVR Bowl. It is a premium bowling simulator game where you can play it together with your friends and family. There are eight immersive lanes that you can experience and enjoy!
Why this game suitable for Beginner or Newbie?
It is really easy to play this game like playing in real-life bowling game. Except, you don’t have to worry about the weight of the bowling balls.
Price: $ 19.99 USD at Meta Quest Store (as of 21st November 2024)
Official Website: http://forevrgames.com/
7) Meta Quest TV
Meta Quest TV is place where you can enjoy varieties of immersive videos, animations and interactive stories. For us personally, we really enjoy the immersive travelling and tour videos where you can turn around 360 degrees and feel like you are there.
Why suitable for Beginner or Newbie?
There is a lot of immersive 360 degrees videos that you can try to appreciate the beauty of virtual reality technology. A note of advice, if you suddenly feel sick watching it (eg. the roller coaster video), then just stop and move to other video. You can try the roller coaster next time when you already got your “VR Legs” (resistance to motion sickness).
Price: Free at Meta Quest Store (as of 21st November 2024)
Official Website: https://www.meta.com/quest/entertainment/
8) Walkabout Mini Golf
In Walkabout Mini Golf, you can swing your club in eight unique 18-hole courses. The environment where you play is very serene and the background music is very relaxing. It’s something like a therapy while playing it.
Why this game suitable for Beginner or Newbie?
This game is so easy that you can play the game with one hand only. During the start of the game, it keeps emphasize that you only need to play with one hand. Perhaps, this is to show how easy for you to play and enjoy it. This is definitely a must have Meta Quest game for newbie and beginner.
Price: $ 14.99 USD at Meta Quest Store (as of 21st November 2024)
Official Website: https://mightycoconut.com/minigolf/
9) Wander
If you are someone who dreamed to travel around the world, this apps is a must. Wander apps allows you to teleport anywhere in the world. This apps able to perform this by leveraging the data from Google StreetView. You can also choose at which year that you want to visit. Feel like time traveler, huh?
Why suitable for Beginner or Newbie?
With this apps, you’ll be impress with the power and wonder of VR immediately when you try it on. You can feel like you are really there on that location. Furthermore, the control to maneuver around is super-easy.
Price: $ 9.99 USD at Meta Quest Store (as of 21st November 2024)
Official Website: http://www.parklineinteractive.com/
10) Rec Room
Rec Room is a social app where you can hang out, chat and play games together with your family and friends. Besides, you can also build your own rooms, games and even worlds.
Why suitable for Beginner or Newbie?
There are lot of fun and easy games for you to play. Besides, the tutorials are easy to follow. Our recommendation is for you to start with the Paintball game.
Price: Free at Meta Quest Store (as of 21st November 2024)
Official Website: http://www.recroom.com/
11) Meta Horizon Worlds
There are many unique worlds and live events that you can explore together with your friends in Meta Horizon Worlds. Furthermore, you might got chance to see some of your favorite artists in the virtual concert or standup comedy.
Why suitable for Beginner or Newbie?
It is easy to feel like you are really there together with your buddies. And this is a way for you to feel like you are sitting very close to your favorite artists in live concert. It is really such a wonderful and great experience for VR newbies!
Price: Free at Meta Quest Store (as of 21st November 2024)
Official Website: http://www.oculus.com/facebookhorizon
Lastly…
We think that’s all for now on the best beginner games and apps for Meta Quest 3. Most of the time, the games or apps listed above will not cause you immediate nausea or motion sickness. Another tips is that, you must try those apps under the Comfort Rating of “Comfortable“. The icon for it is at the top most from the list below (green circle).
From there, then you can try more challenging apps and games to realize your investment of buying Meta Quest 3. If you would like to see more best games and apps, you can read the article here.
Are you now getting excited to try VR after you read this? If you don’t have a VR headset yet, we think this is the right time for you to get it 🙂
If you are interested in buying this product, you can buy it here as well.
Have fun, newbies!!
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