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Skyrim in VR

In an interview with Engadget’s Billy Steele, Cliff Bleszinski (aka Cliffy B) seems to confirm that Bethesda’s hugely successful RPG ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ is indeed receiving official Oculus Rift support.

The fact of the matter is they’re porting Team Fortress, they’re porting Skyrim and they’re finding it kind of works.

We don’t yet know if Bethesda themselves are carrying out the VR retrofitting or indeed how long it might take to surface, but it’s heartening to know it is at least on its way. This does also seem to tie in with leaked images from a ‘closed door’ presentation exposed in a PC Per article in April, containing a slide with, amongst others, the Skyrim logo.

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Bleszinski is candid too on his involvement with Oculus at a financial level:

Full disclosure that I am an investor in the Oculus Rift. So I have an agenda, but I wouldn’t have put my money in it if I didn’t believe in it.

There’s no doubt that the enormously popular RPG would be viewed as a Kill App for the Virtual Reality HMD, but Cliff tempers that view with his opinion on how development of the best titles to take advantage of the Rift should be approached:

But the best experiences for that product will be made for it. It’s the one that excites me the most because I believe in the vision of VR. I think it could be really amazing once you start getting haptic feedback gloves and things like that.

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Based in the UK, Paul has been immersed in interactive entertainment for the best part of 27 years and has followed advances in gaming with a passionate fervour. His obsession with graphical fidelity over the years has had him branded a ‘graphics whore’ (which he views as the highest compliment) more than once and he holds a particular candle for the dream of the ultimate immersive gaming experience. Having followed and been disappointed by the original VR explosion of the 90s, he then founded RiftVR.com to follow the new and exciting prospect of the rebirth of VR in products like the Oculus Rift. Paul joined forces with Ben to help build the new Road to VR in preparation for what he sees as VR’s coming of age over the next few years.
  • Akillies

    Very promising list, although I’m not sure how Dota2 would play. The Bioshock Series seems like a logical fit for Oculus support.