One of the earlier titles to be used by Oculus to demonstrate the potential of virtual realit gaming SUPERHOT is to be completely reworked for a new VR specific version that’s built for motion controls, and in particular Oculus Touch, from the ground up.
Rebellion have released a new trailer and a set of new screens for their forthcoming reboot of the classic 1980 Atari arcade shooter Battlezone, and here they are.
Frank He goes hands on with a new version of Crytek’s The Climb, now sporting support for the forthcoming Oculus Touch motion controllers, and finds an elevating experience.
At E3 2016 I got to see the latest prototype version of Gloveone, a haptic motion input glove designed for virtual reality. The prototype now uses its own tracking system which in early testing seems impressively robust.
On Monday, Meta, the company building AR HMDs that allow the wearer to manipulate holographic objects within the wearer’s visual field and the headset’s field of view (90 degrees, in the Meta II), among other things, announced that it’s raised $50M in Series B funding.
Harmonix Music VR is a collection of music-based experiences slated to launch alongside PSVR on October 13th. Ranging from trippy to the super trippy, the experiences of Music VR are a mix of passive and interactive worlds designed to evoke what creative lead Jon Carter told me at this year’s E3 is supposed to balance between “a creative mind-state, and music appreciation.”
One of Oculus’ 30 titles coming to support their Touch motion controllers this year, Ripcoil from Sanzaru Games takes some heavy gameplay influences from the classic TRON disc battles but utilises motion controls to “Control your body and hands in a way that’s only possible with Touch.” Here are some gameplay snippets to give you an idea how it plays.
CastleStorm VR is a curious blend of medieval RTS, Tower Defence and RPG mechanics with a dash of Angry Birds, set on a 2D plane and build for virtual reality. It’s on its way for both the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR headsets, take a look at it in action in this launch trailer.
Bound from developer Plastic is a beautiful 3D platformer with a unique visual style and it’s eye on highbrow, contemporary art direction not to mention dance. As if that weren’t enough, the title has now been confirmed to be heading to PlayStation VR.
OSVR’s newly announced HDK 2 packs a new display which brings a significant improvement in resolution and performance. The organization says they will make available a display upgrade allowing older HDK headsets to swap for the improved display.
There were a lot of VR games announced over the past two days at E3 by AAA game publishers. I watched all of the press conferences from Sony, Ubisoft, Bethesda, Microsoft, EA, and Oculus’ appearance at the PC Gaming Show in order to capture audio highlights of all of the VR news that was presented. I distilled over 8 hours worth of content down to 41 minutes of the most interesting audio highlights and analysis in today’s episode of The Voices of VR podcast. You can listen to all of the major announcements in their own words, and find all of the new VR game trailers down below.
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Here’s the video the Sony PlayStation E3 conference:
Sony PlayStation VR will launch on October 13th and have at least 50 games by the end of 2016, and below are the new trailers that were just released
Resident Evil 7 biohazard will be released in 2017
A new horror game Here They Lie
Some portion of Final Fantasy XV will be in VR
Batman: Arkham VR
Farpoint is a sci-fi VR thriller that uses a new PSVR Aim controller
Starwars: Battlefront X-Wing VR Experience from EA. More details from Criterion Games Producer James Svensson here, and more details on EA’s Frostbite Labs here.
Bound is an amazing-looking game that just got a new trailer:
Here’s a list of the 29 games that PlayStation VR will be showing at E3.
Here’s the archive of Ubisoft’s E3 Press Conference
Palmer Luckey and the Oculus team beat the Ubisoft developers in a game of capture the flag in Eagle Flight.
Here’s the trailer for the social game Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Oculus’ Anna Sweet announced a SUPERHOT VR and Killing Floor: Incursion at the PC Gaming Show
SUPERHOT VR
Killing Floor: Incursion
Giant Cop
Wilson’s Heart
Serious Sam VR: The Last Hope
Oculus posted a blog post with 30 different launch titles for the Oculus Touch.
Here’s a list of Oculus Touch Launch titles named in the blog:
Bethesda Softworks E3 Conference where they announced Fallout 4 & Doom on VR
Microsoft E3 press conference is currently archived here.
Here’s a portion of the Minecraft update
Here’s Microsoft’s VR-ready console named Project Scorpio launching during the holidays of 2017
Music: Fatality & Summer Trip
The expo floor opens today, but this year’s E3 in Los Angeles has already kicked off with some big names in the industry making fresh commitments to VR on both the software and hardware side of things. Here we take a look at the top 5 announcements from Day 0 of E3, ranked in no particular order (because who would agree?):
Crytek have released a new trailer for their forthcoming PlayStation VR exclusive adventure title Robinson: The Journey.
Final Fantasy fans can officially save their pennies, because the latest instalment, Final Fantasy XV, is making its way to PlayStation VR later this year – the only problem is we still don’t know exactly what form the so-called VR experience will take. The latest trailer does give us some clues though.
