CCP Games, makers of Eve Online, are gearing up for this year’s Fanfest in Reykjavik, Iceland. The CCP-sponsored festival, which takes place March 19-21, not only offers Eve players a chance to talk with the game devs and hear about new and upcoming features to the MMO, but will also prominently feature the company’s forthcoming VR title, Eve Valkyrie.
Road to VR’s Ben Lang is on the ground at the Harpa Conference Center in Reykjavik where CCP will be putting extra focus on their upcoming VR release, Eve Valkyrie, a multiplayer dogfighter based in the EVE universe that is built from the ground up to support Oculus Rift headset and Sony’s Project Morpheus.
Free livestreams via CCP’s Twitch channel and/or our liveblogs will be available for the following VR events (click “my local time” to see when it starts in your timezone). We’ll be publishing session-specific articles with embedded livestreams or liveblogs one hour prior to each session. Here are the sessions we think you’ll want to tune in for on days one and three of Fanfest:
Thursday, March 19
Welcome to Fanfest & the Future of VR (livestream) – 12:00 GMT (my local time)
CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson welcomes you to Fanfest and then is joined by others in discussing the future of virtual reality at CCP. Includes an updated look at and information about EVE: Valkyrie and more!
Meet the Valkyries (livestream) – 15:00 GMT (my local time)
The team representing EVE:Valkyrie at Fanfest introduces itself and goes into further detail on where the game is, where it’s headed and what we´ll cover in the roundtables. The format of the Valkyrie tournament will also be explained and questions from the audience will be answered.
Saturday, March 21
Valkyrie VR (liveblog) – 14:00 GMT (my local time)
What are the challenges of making EVE: Valkyrie a virtual reality game? Come have an open discussion with the developers working on the code, graphics, audio and user experience.
Update (3/21): We’ve cancelling our liveblog of this session due to scheduling conflicts.
EVE: Valkyrie Tournament (livestream) – 15:00 GMT (my local time)
Follow along as players compete to reveal the best dogfighter in the Eve universe.
Disclosure: CCP Games is covering travel and lodging expenses for one Road to VR writer to attend Fanfest 2015.