Doom VR: Interview With Marty Stratton

[HardOCP News]

The crew at Shacknews caught up with Marty Stratton at at QuakeCon 2016 and talked to him about Doom VR and the future of first person shooters in virtual reality. The video (embedded below) is just under fifteen minutes long but well worth the time to watch.

 

[Deleted member 82943]

well, well, finally a reason to get a VR set

 

[Sonicks]

Interesting.

I was actually randomly thinking about how Doom could be adapted to VR yesterday and then this comes up. In my head I was thinking more along the lines of using a controller with the left thumbstick to move around and the right one being disabled. I don't know how I feel about the teleporting bit....it seems like most VR titles will go this route.

I'm sure mixing a controller with an FPS in VR is a recipe for nausea but I have to believe that there is a way for these titles to work without the teleportation movement device. Don't the touch controllers have thumbsticks on them? I will be truly saddened if all VR titles gravitate to that movement method.

 

[OutOfPhase]

Pretty sure DOOM in VR would make me fall down and/or puke.

In other words, game on.