My guess is Bethesda will focus on the Vive version during the conference, but will announce Fallout 4 is coming to PSVR, and the PSVR version will have a bigger showing at the PlayStation conference on Monday. While Fallout 4 is the only VR title that Bethesda has confirmed will be at the show at this time, there’s no doubt in my mind that they’ll have at least one other VR-related announcement at the show, and perhaps two or more others. We played Fallout 4 VR extensively last year, but it’s been 12 months since we’ve seen the game’s progress, so we expect a huge leap this year in terms of what Bethesda is showing as Fallout 4 will undoubtedly be the VR highlight at Bethesda’s presser. Since AAA games are so resource-intensive and therefore economically risky to develop, many of the big early VR gaming experiences are going to be translations of existing titles, but that’s not so bad when you’re talking about some of the deepest, most fun and engaging gaming experiences of all time.Īnother year, another E3, so what can we expect from Bethesda at this year’s show?īethesda’s press conference is on Sunday, June 11 at 6:30pm Pacific, and we know Fallout 4 VR is going to be a big part of that presentation. The refresh rate was slow and the resulting experience was slightly nauseating if you spent more than a few minutes in the headset, but even then I understood what this new tech was going to mean to gaming, as well as to myriad other industries.īethesda was one of the earliest supporters of VR development, so it’s no surprise that they have made some of the most-anticipated VR game announcements to date, most notably Fallout 4 VR and Doom VR, which were both announced at its E3 2016 press conference. While my first experience with VR was in the mid-’90s with the VFX-1, my introduction to the latest round of VR devices was at E3 2012 when John Carmack showed Doom 3 in VR at the Bethesda booth on a newly-announced but not-yet-released HMD called the Oculus Rift, which was little more than a motion-tracking display duct-taped to an elastic ski goggle strap.

Both will be on the HTC Vive, but Doom will be also be coming to PlayStation VR. Update: Bethesda confirmed Fallout 4 and Doom VFR are coming to VR this year.

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