With games like Crysis (2007) and Ryse: Son of Rome (2013), Crytek has cultivated a reputation for making beautiful games. The company’s VR team, which just announced Robinson: The Journey as their first title, is keeping with that tradition in full force. Their prototype of the game, shown at E3 2015, is one of the most expansive and visually impressive VR demos I’ve ever seen.
We got the chance to go hands-on with the first VR title from Guerilla Games Cambridge, Rigs: Mechanized Combat League. This gameplay video covers a full 3v3 match in Sony’s special press-only area housing 6 demo pods, players in all took part in the match.
I had a great time with Rigs and despite my short time with the game, that statement is important. Whilst it was undoubtedly technically impressive, the game’s polished visuals were matched by weighty, depth-filled FPS gameplay in a multiplayer setting that worked really well.
Apologies for the poor quality of the video, filming conditions were far from ideal. However, despite the video not doing the game’s accomplished visuals justice, it does give you a good impression of that vertical gameplay and a feel for the speed and intensity of gameplay.
Road to VR are in LA covering E3 all week. Stay tuned for all the VR news from the show.
We go hands on with Project Morpheus exclusive multiplayer mech combat game by Guerilla Games Cambridge, Rigs: Mechanized Combat League. By far the best looking VR game on Morpheus right now.
With Sony getting serious about VR as they approach the launch of their Morpheus headset next year, the company says they’re showing nearly 20 Morpheus games at E3 2015 in LA, here is a look at the ones we were able to track down so far.
OSVR’s ‘Hacker Development Kit’ version 1.2 is now shipping to selected developers, including the long awaited IR positional tracking system. The company has today updated their SDK to include support for Android devices, adding true cross-platform compatibility to an ecosystem that prides itself on its open-source nature, and also revealed several upgrade modules to enhance the HDK headset’s capabilities.
Kite & Lightning have taken the wraps off of their newest experience, another project for GE, which explores the inner workings of musician Reuben Wu’s brain in both a fantastical and realistic representation. The new experience is powered by AMD’s new Fury X GPU (codenamed Fiji).
Fove, the impressive eye-tracking VR headset that’s smashed through their Kickstarter goal, has revealed plans to investigate ‘Lighthouse’ positional tracking from Valve as a $700,000 stretch goal. The company today is also announcing that they will support the OpenVR SDK, bringing support for the headset to SteamVR.
On stage at the company’s E3 press conference, Sony revealed a new Project Morpheus title in the works called Rigs: MCL, a mech shooter which they say is built around competitive gameplay.
Hot on the tails of the Oculus Rift’s unveiling at the company’s ‘Step into the Rift’ event, the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) promises to see a number of press conferences featuring the top players that have expressed strong interest in VR projects.
At Microsoft’s E3 conference today, the company let loose with another live demonstration of their mixed reality headset HoloLens. In the demo they showed a number of features, including the newly revealed multiplayer function for non-headset players.
E3 is underway here in LA and at Microsoft’s press conference the software giant have announced that they’re working closely with Valve on virtual reality for the Windows 10 platform.
Microsoft kicks off E3 Day 0 with their big press conference. With the company recently engaging in an interesting partnership with VR headset maker Oculus, this is one we’ll be keeping our eye on.
Rothenberg Ventures, the San Francisco based VC firm behind the ‘River’ VR accelerator is opening their doors for a second class of VR startups. The company seeks to invest another $1 million across 10 companies after a successful inaugural class. This time they’re also interested in bringing on companies working in augmented reality.
