Cor, Tilt Brush is still the absolute business
The reason I love videogames, I think, is that every few years they absolutely flatten me. They destroy my sense of what's possible and replace it with something new and weird. Impossible Mission did this back on the Commodore 64 - a game, but so stylish, so transporting! And then Wonder Boy 3 came along, a platformer in which left and right didn't matter - you could go anywhere.
Listen: do you know at what point I was won over? Instantly. It was instantaneous. There was no period of deciding to be won over, no slow caving. Instead, Oculus came with a sort of starter sequence of places it took you to visit. One of those, I can almost imagine it fading in now. I'm high above a comic book city, standing on some kind of gantry. I look up and the skyscrapers only continue higher into the clouds. And moving over the cold night above, maybe an airship.
This is Tilt Brush, and Tilt Brush came back into my life this week because someone I know wanted to see VR for themselves, and where else to start? I don't have Oculus anymore, so the city diorama is out of reach. Budget Cuts, which hit me, at the time, like Half-Life 3, takes too long to get going, as does actual Half-Life 3, or Alyx, or whatever you want to call it. Beat Saber requires too much movement - dangerous for a first trip into VR world.
Over the last few days, I've done something a little different though. You can import reference images into Tilt Brush. So if you want to copy a Turner, you grab it and then hang it in the air in front of you and try to understand how he did it, what brushes you might use, where - oh God, Turner - you might start and finish.
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