When it was announced that social network Behemoth, Facebook, were buying Oculus Rift in a massive deal worth an estimated $2 billion, the reaction from the gaming community was far from positive. Some even went on to speculate that the future would consist of living in the Matrix, hooked into mind-numbing games like Farmville and spending endless amounts of cold hard cash to make painfully slow progress in virtual reality, resorting to begging everyone for a ‘Like’.
To pitch such a game is one thing, but to actually convince one billion people it’s worth buying into a huge virtual reality game is many years from becoming an actual reality.
To pitch such a game is one thing, but to actually convince one billion people it’s worth buying into a huge virtual reality game is many years from becoming an actual reality. So behind the controversial headlines, there is very little evidence to suggest this is going to happen anytime soon, but there is a clear intention and over-arching vision for the future of Rift.
Most revealing is the fact that Brendan Iribe has already exposed his master plan and unwittingly shared it with the rest of the world. The ultimate end-game is to have one billion people buying their hardware and subscribing to Rift/Facebook services. They want 1/6th of the world’s population invested in Virtual Reality.
Morels: Homestead, a relaxing game in which you can create your own unique homestead, is available now for PC VR.
Electronic Arts has confirmed that while F1 23 will support PC VR it will not support PSVR 2 on PlayStation 5.
That's fine. GT7 would overshadow it anyway at it has open wheel and regular cars.
Should have been spending their time updating Squadrons with better resolution, frame rate, haptics, etc as there isn't a game like that on PS VR 2 yet.
But it's EA. They don't think.
A wasted opportunity, but I don't buy EA / Codemasters stuff anyway. Grid Legends just came out on Plus and I haven't touched it. Why would I when I have GT7 and PSVR2?
That's where opportunity presents itself that they could offer something else that other developers haven't offered yet. Yeah. There's No Man's Sky. But a space game with a story would be great. Like the old days with Colony Wars.
Exactly, they could have possibly lured more players just from the inclusion of a vr mode.
I miss Colony wars and G-Police, Low-Fi I hope will scratch that itch when it releases. We also need a vr War/Starhawk game.
Here's a forgotten VR gem for you from 2019. Epic Games' action-packed Robo Recall, which is also available for Quest 2.
Although I never owned an oculus, I played the demo for this at an electronics store. Pretty impressive in an early goings of VR title.
