Virtual reality isn’t getting second class treatment at this year’s Playstation Experience in San Francisco, as a number of beloved titles are now getting VR iterations. Just announced was Rez Infinite, the PlayStation remake in the popular rhythm-based Rez series.
Ace Combat 7, the next installment of Namco Bandai’s fighter jet combat franchise is coming exclusively to PlayStation VR.
A flurry of announcements have come from the PlayStation Experience 2015 in San Francisco today, and a new title, Golem, from Highwire Games making its exclusive debut on PlayStation VR.
At PlayStation Experience, Sony has announced that Ubisoft is bringing the multiplayer virtual reality game Eagle Flight to PlayStation VR and to PC on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive VR headsets.
Job Simulator, the virtual reality title by Owlchemy Labs, is coming to PlayStation VR. Announced at PlayStation Experience today, the title is now set to come to all three major headsets.
Taking to the stage at PlayStation Experience, developer Double Fine has announced a Psychonauts VR experience which will be exclusive to PlayStation VR.
Here’s an early look at the first version of Rapture, the VR headset you’ll use when you enter The Void virtual reality attraction, opening to the public next year. Packing dual curved OLED displays, it’s a serious looking piece of kit.
Announced ahead of tomorrow’s Playstation Experience event in San Francisco, it seems sci-fi adventure title Eclipse from developer White Elk is now headed to Sony’s virtual reality platform PlayStation VR, and it looks stunning.
Maureen Fan is the former vice president of gaming at Zynga, but she’s always had a passion for animation. Maureen’s mind was blown open the first time she experienced VR because she saw that the future of animation was going to be within Virtual Reality. She left Zynga about six months ago, and within a couple of weeks met her Baobab Studios co-founder Eric Darnell who directed Antz as well as wrote and directed four Madagascar films. They quickly assembled a team of other animated film veterans and put together a 2-minute trailer that helped them to secure $6 million dollars led by Comcast Ventures with participation from HTC and Samsung Ventures as well as others.
PlayStation Experience is coming back to the Moscone Center in San Francisco this year, and the company’s PSVR headset is stepping out into the spotlight with at least 16 confirmed PSVR titles up for demos. Can’t make it to SF for the weekend? You can still catch the VR panel talk streamed online on Dec. 5.
Pete Moss is Unity’s “VR Dude” in that he’s been a long-time believer and advocate in the cross section between VR and gaming and how the Unity game engine could play a significant part. He talks to me about his dual role of content creator and dogfooding the Unity engine as well as evangelizing VR to different communities and collecting experience prototypes from different game jams and developers from around the world. Pete’s passion for the potential of virtual reality is clear, and he’s the most excited to see how artists use VR to express themselves given that VR provides completely new pathways into the brain.
Well, the big announcement we were waiting for at last night’s 2015 Game Awards has dropped and it’s Rockband VR from Harmonix, a virtual reality re-imagining of the successful rhythm action franchise. One thing was unclear from the launch trailer though, and that was if indeed the Oculus Touch controllers pictured atop the featured guitars would translate to the retail game. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe has now confirmed that yes, this is indeed the case.
Kevin Williams reports from IAAPA 2015, an Amusement Park expo featuring upcoming rides and attractions coming to theme parks. He takes a closer look at the ever growing presence of VR at the show and its importance to the out of home entertainment sector.
Here’s a novel twist on the same old commercial imagery this Christmas as Coca Cola rolls out a new VR promotion in Poland. Developers Lemon & Orange have taken the now familiar Christmas truck convoy and built a VR roller coaster experience where you adopt the role of Santa, soaring through the skies on his sleigh pulled by (just the two) Reindeer.
