VR Week: Rocket League devs had a cool idea for VR, but you won’t get to see it

By Hugh Langley

Swathes of game developers are toying with virtual reality right now, and it’s not just first-person shooters and space simulators that lend themselves to the medium – even the Rocket League developers have thought about it.

Psyonix Design Director Corey Davis told techradar that the team had a neat idea of how to implement VR into Rocket League, but weren’t able to take the idea any further due to technical constraints.

“It’s a technical problem more than anything,” said David. “We had ideas. There are some games where you’re not the player in VR, you’re like watching the game in VR. If you consider a ball cam which basically just keeps the car in frame and looks at wherever the ball is, you could do a really cool head tracking thing where instead of rigidly tracking the camera and needing stick input, you could be driving and just looking at whatever you want to look at.

“That would be pretty cool, right?”

It would indeed, but it probably won’t happen. Or at least, it isn’t something we’ll see in Rocket League in the near future.

“Because we’re using Unreal 3, there’s no official VR support,” explained David, “and what we’ve been told is that …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming