Sadly, the full version was never to be the Rift and Vive didn’t release for another two years after Isolation’s launch and by then the game was somewhat forgotten. It was an amazing demo with several highlights, including looking down at your body to see the alien’s tail pierce your torso (there were a few screams coming from the E3 booth that year). DK2’s tracking camera allowed you to lean around surfaces for quick peeks, which was incredibly immersive. You found yourself in uncomfortably close proximity to the iconic Xenomorph and had to hide in lockers and under desks as you tried to sneak through the room.
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First shown at E3 2014, the demo took a small section of developer Creative Assembly’s survival horror title and let you experience it with Rift’s new 1080p display and positional tracking. Alien: Isolation on Oculus RiftĪnother well-known VR demo that never made it past expo floors, Alien: Isolation became a star showcase of the Rift’s second development kit (DK2). It’s safe to say we’ll never see an official VR version of Doom 3, but there’s a pretty great mod out there now that even works with the Touch controllers. Now the partnership between Oculus and Bethesda has been overshadowed by a messy legal battle concerning who actually made the Rift. In fact, Oculus originally even planned to deliver a VR version of the game alongside every development kit it sold during its original Kickstarter, though this never materialized. It might sound primitive by today’s standards but, six years ago, it was a revelation. You could run through one of the game’s moody levels in VR with an Xbox controller, looking all around you with the head-tracking.
This was one of our first glimpses of true VR gaming. It was famously known as the Duct Tape Prototype for the Rift. In the early, early days of the Rift, John Carmack, then of Bethesda-owned id Software, showcased a prototype of the headset running id’s Doom 3 in VR. These days Oculus would probably rather forget the bond it once shared with Bethesda, but the pair were once closely entwined. Let’s take a look at some AAA games from the past few years that had surprising VR demos. But it’s been a long road to get here, and many VR veterans will recall the agonizing years in which we waited for games from well-known developers and publishers to show up on these platforms.ĭuring that time there were a bunch of promising demos from major series, many of which never amounted to anything more than E3 showcases.
Noire, optional support in games like Resident Evil 7, or entirely new titles like Lone Echo, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and PlayStation VR owners are finally getting a taste of big budget titles. Whether it is ports of past hits like Skyrim and L.A. Just over two years into VR’s consumer reality and AAA gaming is finally starting to make its way to the platform.
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