{"id":986,"date":"2023-02-04T00:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=986"},"modified":"2023-02-04T00:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T00:20:05","slug":"desert-bus-vr-available-now-for-some-tedious-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=986","title":{"rendered":"Desert Bus VR available now for some tedious driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>Desert Bus has a cult following. It was a mini-game created by Penn and Teller which\u00a0was never commercially\u00a0released\u00a0but it has been used to raise money for charity. It is extremely mundane. From today, a trip on the Desert Bus can be experienced in full VR with new improved desert and bus visuals.<\/p>\n<p>If driving a bus along an empty\u00a0road from Tuscon to Las Vegas for eight hours appeals then Desert Bus is for you. With a whopping max speed of 45mph and if you swerve off there\u2019s always the opportunity to get towed back to the start in real-time.<\/p>\n<p>This new updated version comes with a radio which may or may not break up the tedious\u00a0journey. The radio audio does include commentary from Penn Jillette<em>\u00a0<\/em>about how the game came about. If that excitement is not enough there\u2019s a horn to honk, a bus door to open, and an air freshener to fiddle with.<\/p>\n<p>What will make this new version of the game super exciting is the\u00a0new multiplayer mode for up to four players. The other passengers can sit there and be really annoying too and throw bits of paper at the driver.<\/p>\n<p>This truly is the pinnacle of PC gaming and the good news is it runs at a steady 60 FPS. If you don\u2019t have VR, then fear not, you can still play this now on Steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desert Bus has a cult following. It was a mini-game created by Penn and Teller which\u00a0was never commercially\u00a0released\u00a0but it has been used to raise money for charity. It is extremely mundane. From today, a trip on the Desert Bus can be experienced in full VR with new improved desert and bus visuals. If driving a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}