As folks continue to feel out what virtual reality can do and what works well in it, I’m interested to see what the hardware companies themselves want on their cybergoggles. Oculus have already been funding and publishing cybergames for years and now HTC have launched Vive Studios. It’s a new internal studio to develop their own games and publish games made by other folks.
Their very first game launched yesterday too, and it looks surprisingly bland. Rather than a “Gosh-o wowza!” experience like TheBlu or Tilt Brush or a “This is so cool it HURTS” game like Superhot VR, they’ve gone with VR remakes of ’80s arcade games. … [visit site to read more]