Skyrim in VR
In an interview with Engadget’s Billy Steele, Cliff Bleszinski (aka Cliffy B) seems to confirm that Bethesda’s hugely successful RPG ‘The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim’ is indeed receiving official Oculus Rift support.
The fact of the matter is they’re porting Team Fortress, they’re porting Skyrim and they’re finding it kind of works.
We don’t yet know if Bethesda themselves are carrying out the VR retrofitting or indeed how long it might take to surface, but it’s heartening to know it is at least on its way. This does also seem to tie in with leaked images from a ‘closed door’ presentation exposed in a PC Per article in April, containing a slide with, amongst others, the Skyrim logo.
Bleszinski is candid too on his involvement with Oculus at a financial level:
Full disclosure that I am an investor in the Oculus Rift. So I have an agenda, but I wouldn’t have put my money in it if I didn’t believe in it.
There’s no doubt that the enormously popular RPG would be viewed as a Kill App for the Virtual Reality HMD, but Cliff tempers that view with his opinion on how development of the best titles to take advantage of the Rift should be approached:
But the best experiences for that product will be made for it. It’s the one that excites me the most because I believe in the vision of VR. I think it could be really amazing once you start getting haptic feedback gloves and things like that.
