At Epic’s Unreal Engine presentation at GDC, the team demonstrated their forthcoming Unreal VR Editor working with both the Oculus Rift VR Headset and the Oculus Rift motion controllers.
With the launch of the PlayStation VR now announced to be arriving in October this year, the focus on content creation for the first console powered VR system will intensify. This session, presented by Sony,
Epic’s presence at GDC and VRDC reflects it’s importance in this next phase of virtual reality application development as it’s Unreal Engine drives a significant number of new games and applications in the VR space heading into 2016. Watch it live here at 9:30 AM PST.
Battlezone will be among the first PlayStation VR games you’ll be able to play when you plug your shiny new PlayStation VR headset into the PS4 this October. A new gameplay video shows the launch sequence for the ‘Cobra’ hover tank you’ll be piloting, and a glimpse of the environments in which you’ll do battle with your robotic foes.
Road to VR co-founder Ben Lang and writer Scott Hayden attended the Oculus Game Days 2016 event on Sunday and joined me for a roundtable discussion about their launch title highlights, some analysis about the event, the future of Touch as well as their reflections on the 3 new touch games, price, and comfort ratings. There were 30 launch titles, 6 touch games, and 5 other experiences that will be released either in April or Spring 2017.
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The 3 new touch titles including Dead & Buried, VR Sports, and Rock Band VR. There were not any launch dates or price announced for Touch yet because a lot of the focus was put onto the 30 launch titles that will be released on March 28th.
Some of the most visceral reactions that Ben and Scott had were to the social multiplayer games including Dead & Buried, VR Tennis Online, and Eagle Flight. We also talked about the adventure game Chronos, the polish of Eve Valkyrie, the locomotion innovations of the FPS Damaged Core, the visceral fun of VR Sports, and initial reactions to Rock Band VR and Eagle Flight. The time stamps for the related discussions are down below.
Here’s the full list of games and prices, and here’s a photo of all of the Oculus Game Days launch titles and upcoming releases:
Here's the 30 launch titles & 41 games shown at @Oculus Game Days at #GDC2016 with their prices and comfort ratings. pic.twitter.com/i6Qs4Kv67y
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Eagle Flight, the upcoming multiplayer game from Ubisoft Montreal, looks to be nearing finalization with the latest build we saw at the pre-GDC Oculus Gameday event. And while the game sounds like it ought to make you want to barf, we’ve finally got a good handle on some of the secret sauce behind the game’s comfort-based locomotion elements.
After playing the latest build of Dead & Buried, the gun-slinging action game from Oculus Studios, I walked away disappointed. Disappointed that I would have to wait many months still for Oculus to release their Touch controllers so that I’d be able to experience again the frantic fun I just had.
Oculus presented a bevy of games at their pre-GDC Gameday event, some launching on the 28th of March alongside the Rift and some destined for Touch, the company’s natural input controller heading to consumers in Q3 of this year. We went hands-on with VR Sports Challenge from Sanzaru Games, a game that promises to make you feel like you’re the star of the weekend highlight reel.
Damaged Core is a first-person shooter from High Voltage Software that’s offering a unique solution to one of the biggest problems facing first-person games in VR today—locomotion. And while the game’s own brand of teleportation may take more than a minute to explain, the results culminate in a fast-paced, explosive jaunt through a large futuristic battlefield that will have you spanning the entire map with ease, and a deadly purpose.
Games like Chronos seem to be a rarity these days: a narrative-driven action-adventure with a rich world, challenging combat, and no reward-driven feedback loops. After just 20 minutes of what the developers tell me will be a near 12 hour campaign, I can’t wait to dig into Chronos’ masterfully directed world.
Oculus’ pre-GDC ‘Game Days’ event was an opportunity for the company to flaunt its substantial line up of original virtual reality content for the forthcoming Rift headset. But how many games will there be at launch and how much can you expect to pay for them? Here’s a handy official list of them with links to our coverage of them so far.
The PlayStation VR headset will be available from October 2016 for $399, but what do you get for your 400 bucks? That how does what’s missing cost you?
Revealed alongside the international price and launch of the much awaited Sony PlayStationVR–slated for October 2016 at $399–CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Andrew House announced a ‘cinematic mode’ for PSVR.
Sony’s PlayStation VR press event at GDC today saw some long-awaited announcements, including price and a preview of a number of titles coming to the platform. Among them was the surprise announcement that a VR version of Battlefront will be coming exclusively to the platform.
At a special press event held at GDC in San Francisco today, Sony have announced that the PlayStation VR will have 50 titles by the end of the year..
