In Depth: I was one of the first people to play Minecraft in virtual reality

By Nick Pino

Minecraft in VR

Full disclosure: I’m probably the absolute worst person you could pick to be one of the first people in the world to try Minecraft in virtual reality.

For one, I’ve played a grand total of two hours of Minecraft in my entire life. Second, virtual reality – despite covering it for years – still makes me feel both nauseated and ludicrously anxious at the same time.

But, in a strange, cruel twist of fate, there I was sitting in a chair at Microsoft’s Spring Showcase with an Xbox One controller in one hand and an Oculus Rift in the other, about to enter into Minecraft’s world of blocks, pigs, chicken and Creepers in first-person.

Earlier that morning, Phil Spencer got up on stage to announce that the WIndows 10 version of Minecraft would support Oculus Rift out of the box. Players who already own the game on Microsoft’s latest desktop operating system won’t need to buy anything else or do anything special, he said. He uttered the words “killer app” a few times while I jotted acronyms down like UWP (“Universal Windows Platform”) and UWA (“Universal Windows Apps”).

To make the day more memorable, Spencer said, Palmer Luckey …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming