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‘Robo Recall’, ‘The Climb’, ‘Moss’, and More Coming to Oculus Quest

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Sep 26, 2018

Oculus today announced ‘Quest’, their new high-end standalone VR headset. The company is promising that some of the top Rift titles will be ported to the headset, including Robo Recall, Moss, The Climb, and Dead and Buried.

On stage today at Oculus Connect 5, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Oculus is focusing on creating a self-sustaining ecosystem so that VR developers can thrive on their platform. Part of achieving that, Zuckerberg said, is making sure that the company’s various efforts across mobile and PC VR are working toward that common goal.

Toward that end, Zuckerberg said that the new Oculus Quest headset will run some of Rift’s current top titles. On stage he mentioned Robo Recall, Moss, The Climb, Dead and Buried, ‘and more’.

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He also announced that there are some 50 launch titles planned for the Oculus Quest launch which is set for Spring.

It’s surprising to hear that games like Robo Recall and The Climb will be coming to Santa Cruz, given that they are graphically intense games built on engines that usually power high-end PC titles. It’s very likely that the graphics will have to be toned down for these titles to run on Quest, given its mobile graphics processor, but it’s still great to know that the investments put into these high-end titles will be able to be enjoyed by mobile VR players too.

Greylock3491

Sounds cool, but I want Rift 2 with a wide FOV and Higher Pixel Density…
- HybridEnergy
  
  Gen 2 probably 2-3 years away. Lets enjoy what we got.
MosBen

Interesting. On the one hand, I would have expected them to talk about Marvel Powers United if it was going to come to the Quest. On the other hand, Robo Recall being on the Quest makes it seem like graphically intense games from the Rift can be ported, even if they have their graphics tuned down.
- F1ForHelp
  
  Robo Recall was one of my favorite games when I first got a Rift, so I’m really hoping that this announcement isn’t too good to be true. If Epic Games is still responsible for this port, then my hopes are still pretty high. (Not commenting on their more recent creation… hehe)
Xron

If they manage to get climb there, maybe they can get echo optimized for it aswell?
- Josh Mars
  
  RAD can’t even optimize it on PC, lmao
HybridEnergy

Type O. It should say massively oiled smeared under sampled 60 hz versions of Robo Recall, The Climb, and Moss coming to Quest. Technically you can get anything on anything, even Fall out 4 on Gear VR if you under sample it enough…like .3 SS. You won’t see anything of course, but it will work. lol
PJ

During the conference they briefly showed a disc being thrown, I would wager that echo combat and echo arena will come too.

I’m really curious to see these game on the quest, I can’t imagine them looking very good
Darshan

Oculus need to bring Lone Echo too.
Luke

the most wanted games to be ported are probably Onward and Echo VR.

people wants to play ESL online games on the quest.
- PJ
  
  Onward with complete wireless freedom, oh my!!!
brubble

Perhaps Ive missed it but whats powering this? Regardless, for the next tier masses this is great and all but its another “pass” from me. Until we see a true cv2 Im out.
- PJ
  
  Snapdragon 835, it’s roughly on par with the Xbox360/PS3.
  
  And I can’t wait!!!
  - brubble
    
    …..no…… I mean power source.
- Henree
  
  WHAT IS THE POINT OF A CV2 WHEN THERE’S ONLY MOBILE GAMES?
  - brubble
    
    HAHA touche’. Wishful thinking I suppose.
NooYawker

I wouldn’t mind having one I can use in the living room.
OOLuigiOo

Too bad ya cant mod Robo.