nDreams, a UK based games studio producing upcoming VR title The Assembly, are declaring war on the discomfort commonly associated with first-person VR games. We sat down with Senior Designer Jackie Tetley and Communications Manager George Kelion at Gamescom 2015 to hear more about the game’s new ‘VR comfort mode’.
Crytek has made leaps and bounds in the area of VR with only a few months between them and the reveal of official VR support at GDC back in March, a feat that was communicated via their dinosaur-themed tech demo using the Oculus Crescent Bay prototype. I sat down with Executive Producer Elijah Freeman at this week’s Gamescom 2015 for more info on the team’s latest developments with virtual reality.
Limitless Entertainment is a new startup created by Tom Sanocki who hails from two of entertainment’s biggest heavyweights, Pixar and Bungie. He saw the promise of virtual reality and decided he had to be involved. We talked to Tom to find out more about his new venture and how his past has lead to him getting involved the VR space.
Australian studio Black Delta have announced that their “hyperrealistic, high-speed kart racing” game will arrive in Q4 2015 with Oculus Rift support. What’s more, for it’s Gamescom 2015 debut, the team have a hexapod motion simulator rigged cart plus Dk2 to try it out in.
Having sold its phone business to Microsoft in 2013, Nokia sets sail for new lands, but it doesn’t look like they’ll be leaving their design sensibilities behind. The company’s new Ozo VR camera is a slick, solid unit that’s thoughtful from form to function.
Although the Oculus Touch ‘Half Moon’ motion controller prototype was revealed back in June, there’s not yet an openly available development kit like the Rift DK1 and DK2 to speak of. Like the Crescent Bay headset prototype (predecessor to the consumer Rift) however, select developers have their hands on Half Moon already.
Pollen, a first-person exploration VR game from Helsinki based Mindfield Games, is well on its way for its series of multi-headset launches soon too come, including Sony Morpheus, HTC Vive, and Oculus Rift. We sat down to talk with CEO Ville Kivistö and Project Lead Olli Sinerma to learn more about it.
The Assembly is a morally ambiguous adventure game built from the ground up for virtual reality by nDreams. In this new gameplay video, Senior Designer Jackie Tetley walks you through some brand new footage whilst offering commentary on how the development team arrived at design choices and how VR differed from traditional game production.
The Assembly currently has no release date but is scheduled to ship to all major VR platforms. We’ve already gone hands on with the title at E3 on the Oculus Rift Crescent Bay and Road to VR’s Scott Hayden will be checking out the Morpheus demo at Gamescom this week. Stay tuned for more coverage of this title.
Gamescom 2015 has just started, a time when a sizeable portion of the European gaming community flocks to Cologne, Germany for a chance to get a glimpse at the newest that the videogame industry has to offer—which in our case means the latest virtual reality games and gear—and more specifically to me, getting to see the Oculus Touch controllers for the first time.
