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I know this is more of a tech demo, but my mind immediately jumps to what sort of controls would be most playable. Have you tried something like:

• Gyroscope to look around.

• Scroll crown to walk forwards or backwards.

• Tap anywhere on screen to fire.

(Pushing in the crown to fire isn't possible, right?)

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Thanks for suggestions! Pushing the crown invokes system UI. * gyroskope to look around: I did try some of it, but it also means that you have to tilt the watch on more axes which usually means you tend to have worse eye contact with the surface of the display. * scroll for walking: I did try, but it wasn't much satisfying to use (I mean even worse than the other controls here :-D) * tap anywhere to fire: good idea!

> gyroskope to look around: I did try some of it

Just wondering—was it on your wrist when you tried it? I'm imagining moving my whole arm up and down, which I can do in sync with my head fairly easily.

And ideally turning around 360 degrees would require physically turning 360 degrees... might need to be played in a swivel chair.

>Gyroscope to look around.

This is demonstrated in the linked video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPC2o262TfQ

Yes, but in the video it's mapped differently. Gyro left and right looks left and right, but gyro up and down walks forwards and backwards.

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