Ubisoft’s first attempts at VR show impressive maturity (and lack of nausea)

<em>Far Cry 3</em>, <em>Trackmania</em>, and a new <em>Eagle Flight</em> game get the VR treatment.

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[nehinks]

Missed opportunity given the company is Ubisoft: Eagle Flight should have started with a scene where some jerk in a hood climbs up and knocks you off your perch...

 

[potato44819]

That "Definition of Insanity" is IMO one of the best cutscenes in modern gaming.

 

[Big Wang]

Whatever your believe about Ubisoft and their platform may be, more competition in this space is going to be good for the consumers.

 

[Akemi]

I'll just be happy if they can get a game out the door that looks like advertised, doesn't have thousands of game breaking bugs on day one and runs at an acceptable framerate on something other than the equivalent of the Enterprise's holodeck system.

There may be a real reason they aren't working on a full fledged game yet. They always show off impressive looking demos. Then the full titles release and we get the above - bugs, graphical downgrades, framerate issues (and worst of all, on all platforms). To say I've lost all faith in Ubi as a developer is understating it.

 

[Genetix]

I'll definitely support them if they are bringing quality VR content.

 

[Causality]

I am truly, desperately hoping that VR developers, both of hardware and software, do not forget the recently-discovered MAJOR effect having a virtual nose has on eliminating motion-sickness and disorientation in VR.

 

[klnn]

Causality[/url]":39iownh8]I am truly, desperately hoping that VR developers, both of hardware and software, do not forget the recently-discovered MAJOR effect having a virtual nose has on eliminating motion-sickness and disorientation in VR.

they didn't forget, its probably why the eagle demo includes a beak in your field of vision.

 

[neodorian]

At first when I read "Far Cry 3" I thought "how the hell did they manage to make a run-and-gun FPS not barf-inducing?!" But then I saw it was a cut scene where you're stuck in place and that stuff is pretty great in VR. The eagle thing sounds really neat too.

I'm still mostly looking forward to the non-gaming (or at least non *traditional* gaming) applications of VR but I really do love seeing what people come up with. I'd love to try out some of these demos on the DK2 but I haven't heard anything about any release outside of trade shows and exhibitions.

 

[Gibborim]

I just don't think it will pan well out if Ubisoft wins the race and gets dominant market share.

 

[Zacpod]

Sure, looks good, but it's probably tied to UPlay, so you''ll get dumped to the title screen and lose all progress if your network drops a ping or two, even if it's an offline single player game. :s

 

[kbhola]

ubisoft on the right track... that's not something you hear too often at all. given their history, i'll wait until it's released and widely tested before i get even a little excited about anything they're doing.

 

[Kate_Tron]

Am I the only one who is a bit disappointed that "Eagle Flight" isn't a game where the player takes the role of one of the obnoxious Far Cry 4 eagles?

 

[skicow]

Modern Major General Thanatos[/url]":2r41bap6]That "Definition of Insanity" is IMO one of the best cutscenes in modern gaming.

Agreed, and Vaas is one of the best villains in modern gaming.

 

[noodz]

A minor brain fart made me read this articles title as "impressive lack of maturity". I was expecting an Oculus version of Beavis and Butt-head in Virtual Stupidity or something.

 

[potato44819]

Kate_Tron[/url]":w9zp2brd]Am I the only one who is a bit disappointed that "Eagle Flight" isn't a game where the player takes the role of one of the obnoxious Far Cry 4 eagles?

Oh man, now THAT was a missed opportunity!

 

[swarmster]

Thanks for the the Trackmania VR impressions! If been keeping an eye out for some since it was shown at E3, but it seemed like no one was reporting on it outside the Ubisoft blog.

Was it all a trailing view of the car, or were all views available? Did they have the menus in VR already? Did they happen to mention whether the PC version will support VR, and with what headsets?