Launch Oculus Rift: The first app
Oculus Rift is now officially on the market in 20 countries. The first units were delivered on March 28 from those who had participated in the crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, through which in 2012 were collected $ 10 million, before the acquisition of Facebook to a value of 2 billion dollars.
” We’re working as fast as possible to deliver all pre-ordered units, ” it said in a blog post. ” If you have booked, you will receive an email when the shipment will be prepared, or from 1 to 3 weeks prior to shipment. Then comes a second email when the payment is validated and the Rift unit was shipped. ”
Farlands
Oculus launched its virtual reality viewer with 30 between video games and other entertainment experiences on Oculus Store. Among these, the latest is Farlands, a cute alien world specially designed for the virtual reality experience. This experience is built with Unreal Engine 4.
Virtual Desktop
This app will be available on Steam starting from tomorrow. Developed both for Oculus Rift that HTC Vive, allows you to explore your own virtual reality computer. You can browse the web, watch the 360 degree movie, as well as videos on YouTube enabled the VR. You can also watch content from Netflix or play some titles.
Lucky’s Tale
Lucky’s Tale is one of the most brilliant games for VR, precisely because its gameplay is designed specifically to leverage the strengths of the new entertainment experience points. It is a three-dimensional platformer reminiscent of the classic Mario 64.
EVE: Valkyrie Founder’s Pack
EVE: Valkyrie is one of the most exploited games in demo phase with Oculus Rift. This is the space combat module developed by CCP Games with the Unreal Engine 4, which uses the 360-degree view and other features of the VR.
Chronos
Chronos is a fascinating role-playing game with an intriguing story in fantasy background and innovative game mechanics once again designed for the VR. Developed by Gunfire Games, it is also interesting for the leveling mechanism and the playing characteristics of traditional graphic adventure.
Windlands
Available both on Steam than on Oculus Store, it is a colorful adventure in which a kind of superhero is to jump from tree to tree in perfect Tarzan-style, all from the first-person perspective.
ADR1FT
ADR1FT tells the story of an astronaut in danger in deep space in a kind of game that could be called FPX or First-Person Experience. The players fight to stay alive, explore the remains of the space station in search of valuable resources for their survival and must overcome all the challenges of a hostile environment to be able to repair the emergency vehicle and return safely home.
It is a small part of already available titles. Among others, we also Elite Dangerous, Project Cars, Assetto Corsa, everyone already playable in VR even if not originally designed for this mode. Later will come many other titles like The Climb by Crytek (while Robinson: The Journey, other adventure Crytek, has recently become an exclusive PlayStation VR), Bullet Train Epic, P.O.L.L.E.N, Rockband VR, World War Toons, Edge of Nowhere by Insomniac Games, DolphinVR, Superhot, The Witness and many others.
