Bethesda announced during their pre-E3 event that Doom, as well as Fallout 4, would be playable during the show in VR form. I was able to get my head into Doom‘s HTC Vive powered VR demo, here’s my take on my virtual journey to hell.
One of the most anticipated VR games at E3 2016 was only announced (well, sort of) a few days before the show was due to begin. Star Trek: Bridge Crew takes every Trekker’s dream, to pilot a Federation star ship and do so with a crew made up of their friends, bringing the whole experience to life inside VR.
Christina Heller is the co-founder and CEO of VR Playhouse, and she gave a talk with her co-founder Ian Forester at SVVR 2016 titled “How Fantasy Becomes Form” about the process of starting up a 360-degree video production studio. I had a chance to catch up with Christina at SVVR to talk about some of her main points, as well as talk about how VR Playhouse wants to bring a psychedelic consciousness to VR in order to potentially activate dormant portions of our brain and ultimately enable us to bring more liberation into our every day lives. We discuss some of these larger visions of VR, what Burning Man has to teach VR, her favorite narrative VR experiences, and the future of interactive storytelling within VR.
Obduction is an upcoming adventure puzzle game for Oculus Rift from Cyan Inc., the creators of Myst (1993) and Riven (1997), and if the thought of seeing those intensely atmospheric worlds in virtual reality excites you, than I shall say no more. Except I will, because that’s why they pay me.
This is a quick demonstration video released by ILMxLab and Magic Leap to mark the announcement of the two company’s newly announced collaboration. They’ve set up a “collaboration lab” in order to work on immersive experiences using Lucasfilm IP and driven by Magic Leap’s augmented reality technology.
At the WIRED Business Conference today, augmented reality technology specialist Magic Leap and Lucasfilm’s ILMxLab have announced a “collaboration lab” to be used to work together on immersive experiences using Magic Leap’s technology.
Star Trek: Bridge Crew, Ubisoft’s latest foray into VR, is poised to throw you into a number of command roles aboard the U.S.S. Aegis (NX-1787), a newly created star ship built on the aesthetic of J.J. Abrams directed franchise reboot. If you’re into role play, get out your Vulcan ears boys and girls, because Star Trek: Bridge Crew is ripe with possibilities.
War Thunder, the popular WWII-themed plane combat game, now has integrated support for the HTC Vive, and it works great.
Frank He gets his hands on Insomniac’s third virtual reality title for the Oculus Rift, and finds an unusual mix of adventuring and vibrant VR brawling.
One of the PlayStation VR titles at Sony’s E3 booth this week is RIGS: Mechanized Combat League, which is a competitive, 3 player vs 3 player game that is like a mixture between a FPS and basketball. The overall goal is for you team to run up a ramp and jump through a hoop, but you have to kill a member of the opposite team before you can do that. I had a chance to catch up with Guerrilla Games Lead Designer Gareth Hughes at Sony’s press event at GDC to talk to him about the game design process, some of the motion sickness from VR locomotion issues that came up for me, and the process of cultivating an eSport within VR.
Felix & Paul Studios, the creative and technical force behind 360 VR films such as ‘Strangers’ and ‘Zarkana’ have announced that they’re to receive $6.8 in series A funding to expand their creative immersive enterprise.
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.
