For several years now Euro Truck Simulator 2 has been delighting users with the opportunity to ride several models of trucks along the routes of Europe and enjoy stunning views. You will not find there chases with gunfights and explosions or any other exciting action. This is a calm and measured truck driving simulator from the developer SCS Software. For further details, go here: virtual truck customization

The essence of Euro Truck, and more recently American Truck Simulator, is to make users feel like a truck driver, driving a huge and heavy vehicle. It's a grueling but fun profession that you may not be home in for months and not see your family, but the beautiful views along the way can be worth it all.

Euro Truck Simulator 2 is the closest of all other games to the realism of this profession, because you have at your disposal a detailed, almost real, truck. But SCS Software has decided to further enhance immersion with virtual reality.

Now you can fully immerse yourself in the process and drive a huge truck while sitting in the cockpit and completing tasks and missions of the game, as well as enjoy stunning views of the locations passing by right from the car window.

“We were interested in testing new technologies that could enhance the driving experience and stationary VR was a natural and obvious answer to this demand.” - says Jiří Dvořák, Senior Programmer at SCS Software.

“In the case of Euro Truck Simulator 2, VR enhances the sense of the player's presence inside the cockpit so much that sometimes you want to touch the steering wheel or the dashboard. Actions such as looking in side mirrors or looking out of a window also greatly improve the effect of presence - these actions become familiar and natural during the game. "

SCS began work on adapting the game for the Oculus Rift back in 2013. The studio is one of the earliest proponents of virtual reality, so it made sense. Maximum authenticity is the Euro Truck's main focus and virtual reality is the best way to amplify an already advantageous differentiation and give users the opportunity to sit at home in a computer chair and feel like they are in a real truck cab.

SCS didn't need to make any gameplay or truck model changes. But since this is, after all, an adaptation, and not a game made for VR from scratch, the studio faced many obstacles.

“Our desire to give the player the freedom to look around can create additional complexities and requirements for design, graphics and optimization,” says Dvořák. "In our case, due to the fact that the player can not only look around, but also move in a confined space, it means that some objects can appear before him in a distorted form."

“There have also been many situations where the player gets to see things that he shouldn't have seen. For example, looking out the window of a truck, the player begins to see it from a perspective that was previously unavailable. Or he can look through the back of the chair, since there may be no real resistance, and we cannot restrict the movement of the camera - this causes nausea and other known problems. "

Helmet response lag, low frame rates, motion sickness and other critical issues were of deep concern to SCS, as they arose in the early stages of VR. Many reports of people feeling sick and dizzy after just a few minutes of playing Resident Evil 7 VR have given a serious warning to all VR developers of the first projects.