Half-Life 2 A mod has been created to support Half-Life
2 using the oculus rift dev kit and razer hydra.
It incorporates both full head and weapon tracking and although it's pretty old now...
this video shows a handful of scenes of creator Nathan Andrews trying it out.
It hangs in the balance waiting for the official apis and headset to catch up.
Although nothing has come out of this since September 2013, it'd definitely be interesting
to see it become a reality.
Valve did release an update to the half life 2 vr beta a few months ago which joe Ludwig
started inviting people to try out back in May last year.
Until Dawn There are two games already announced for
the PS4's project Morpheus, and you'll hear about the second one later on but for now,
Until Dawn by Supermassive Games is our man of the hour.
It's a survival horror, and really, it's going to be ridiculously interesting to experience
horror in an immersive gameplay setting.
It was actually announced back in 2012 for PS Move but not much has been heard from it
since, until now.
Until dawn is inspired by classic movies in the genre and it promises to capture the player
with a shocking and twisted story.
Frontiers Now let's chill out a little bit here, virtual
reality isn't always about being inside a cockpit or running away from freaky things.
Frontiers, another one from the kickstarter world, lets you wonder around exploring and
discovering in a massive relaxing open world that emulates the tone of classic first person
RPGs.
Getting more than triple its goal, Lars Simkins is an indie developer and he's dreamed up
this world of potential, he says, "This game is for anyone that likes exploration, it doesn't
really matter how old you are it doesn't matter what other kinds of games you play, it's a
game that is as deep and engrossing as you want it to be."
Project CARS Developers Slightly Mad Studios have recently
announced their upcoming crowdfunded game Project CARSwill support the PS4 virtual reality
headset Project Morpheus.
They've said the game which has been under development for quite some time will give,
"a totally fresh and exhilarating new perspective on what it feels like to sit in the cockpit
of a high-performance machine screaming around a beautiful location."
Not only will you apparently be able to feel the speed of the car but you'll also be able
to look around the cockpit, nose around at what's going on and even look out the back
window.
Incredible.
Team Fortress 2 As you can see here, Team Fortress 2 is being
used with both the Oculus Rift and the incredible Virtuix Omni which means you can use literal
movement within the game, even jumping.
The games VR Mode is already available on Valve's massively popular game which is a
Steam favourite and they even deployed an oculus rift hat in the game.
Here's a little something from an interview with Valve's Joe Ludwig in terms of bringing
this sort of VR mode integration to other games he says, "There's certainly interest
internally in moving other Valve titles WE don't know yet what the community thinks of
all this."
So, what does the community think of this, leave a comment below!
Among the Sleep Another survival horror for the list but this
one's for the oculus rift.
Developers Killbrite Studio have spoken about using virtual reality for this kind of game
to say, "The sense of perspective and scale it achieves, makes player a two year old child
an incredibly tangible and immersive experience."
The game, as you may have guessed, is played from a child's perspective and without the
scariness of the game even considered, looking down at your little baby body or looking up
at the world will be mighty scary all by itself.
Oh, and this world contains 8 foot tall monsters with glowing eyes.
Elite: Dangerous Elite Dangerous, the immersive, space sandbox
has been announced with a release date of 2014.
Once again another game of the kickstarter world, which is where the Oculus Rift found
its feet also.
It's been given an alpha run which has seen 10% of players use the virtual reality headset
so we'll have to wait and see what result.
David Braben, CEO of developers Frontier has said "We've been playing with the Oculus Rift
dev kits and are excited about the potential -- just glancing around your cockpit or being
totally immersed in a space battle."
The game promises immersion to the cockpit as well as access to the menu on the side
screen without having to press any buttons.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance This realistic single player RPG from developers
Warhorse Studios got itself over 1 million dollars in backing on Kickstarter and having
been asked whether it'll support Oculus Rift, they replied, "Cryengine supports Oculus Rift
by default, so general answer is yes."
Of course they've got to battle with trying to simulate horse riding without making the
players throw up with motion sickness.
But it's not only horse riding they'll have to get through with this game promising crafting
minigames, huge battles, castle sieges and more.
It's unclear how much integration the Oculus rift will have with this game so I guess we'll
just have to wait and see.
Star Citizen Star Citizen is space exploration in the fantasy
setting and designer Chris Roberts spoke during virtual reality panel at South by South West
this year.
As to why they'd be developing with virtual reality in mind Roberts said, "My whole career
has always been about building worlds and experiences."
The Oculus Rift will be compatible with Star Citizen on day one with release expected end
of 2014 or the beginning of 2015.
A Dog fighting module is expected to release before this for backers from kickstarter to
try out the ships.
EVE: Valkyrie Formerly EVE VR, this multiplayer dogfighting
shooter from the incredibly successful EVE franchise by developers CCP Games brings virtual
reality to the next level.
It started off as an experiment and has since become so much more.
I've actually been lucky enough to try out this game on the Oculus Rift and it's pretty
incredible to see.
You can check out that by clicking on the screen now.
It won't just play on the Rift though, it's also shaping up for Project Morpheus development.
We hope to hear more about this incredible game soon so get yourself subscribed to the
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