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Dreams will add support for PlayStation VR on July 22, enabling users to play, create, and share VR experiences

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    JesusShuttlesworth
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    This is pretty awesome. The amount of work that Media Molecule has put into this game is nothing short of amazing. Personally though, I find it hard to motivate myself to learn the creation tools...

    This is pretty awesome. The amount of work that Media Molecule has put into this game is nothing short of amazing.

    Personally though, I find it hard to motivate myself to learn the creation tools when I could be spending my time programming. Even still, the creations that other people make are consistently amazing.

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      moocow1452
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      It is programming though. You're giving a computer instructions to work with and react to external stimulation. For the right person who knows visual programming better than textual based code,...

      I find it hard to motivate myself to learn the creation tools when I could be spending my time programming.

      It is programming though. You're giving a computer instructions to work with and react to external stimulation. For the right person who knows visual programming better than textual based code, I'm sure it would be more click more than any conventional programming language and they would wait for something similar to come to PC and do some really crazy stuff.

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        JesusShuttlesworth
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        Yes that is certainly true. I do think it's a form of programming. People already do incredible things with this game. I dreamsurf all the time and I'm consistently impressed. Have you done any...

        Yes that is certainly true. I do think it's a form of programming. People already do incredible things with this game. I dreamsurf all the time and I'm consistently impressed. Have you done any dream shaping? It's really hard! Even as someone who does programming.

        I'm always tempted to put time into learning it. I just feel... guilty? It's just hard for me to justify learning this form of programming when my personal GitHub is so barren, and I could be learning things that might help me get a job in the future. If I want to make a game, I could learn something like unity and create a game while learning useful C# skills. That's just my own problem though, and doesn't take away from how amazing this game and it's community is.

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          moocow1452
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          God forbid you learn an unproductive language because you enjoy the process. I learned Labview through Mindstorms and First Robotics, and I wouldn't trade that experience for the world, even if...

          God forbid you learn an unproductive language because you enjoy the process. I learned Labview through Mindstorms and First Robotics, and I wouldn't trade that experience for the world, even if Labview is an incredibly niche language that ONLY NOW got a community version I can hobby around with. You'll learn better if you enjoy what you're doing, so go for it!

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          1. JesusShuttlesworth
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            Fair point. I actually played around on it last night. Had a great time :).

            Fair point. I actually played around on it last night. Had a great time :).

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