battle for the oasis – Augmented & Virtual Reality Confabulation

November 8, 2018

HTC Vive’s Ready Player One: Oasis Receives Elite Gunter Pack DLC

HTC Vive and Viveport went all out earlier this year for the cinematic release of Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One, launching several virtual reality (VR) experiences. Now there’s a new DLC pack available for Ready Player One: OASIS, adding hours of gameplay with new levels, environments, bosses and more.

Battle for the Oasis

The Elite Gunter Pack DLC expands the following titles: Battle for the OASIS, Gauntlet, Smash and Fracture in the following ways:

Battle for the OASIS: Help to save the OASIS by defeating waves of IOI Sixers. Advance through the trenches of Planet Doom towards the snowy planes that surround Anorak’s Castle. With the Elite Gunter Pack DLC, you’ll encounter new bosses across 8 new levels as you battle for control of Anorak’s Castle.
Gauntlet: Navigate through a seemingly endless dungeon while the undead seek to destroy you, in the classic dungeon-crawler reimagined for VR. The Elite Gunter Pack DLC comes with new levels, environments, and power-ups giving you more to explore.
Smash: Enhance your hand and eye coordination in this nod to OASIS creator James Halliday’s favorite ’80s arcade games. Enjoy nine new levels with the Elite Gunter Pack DLC!
Fracture: Heighten your spatial awareness and reflexes in this throwback to 80s brick smasher games reimagined in VR. Over 20 new and diverse levels are included with the Elite Gunter Pack DLC.

“Ready Player One: OASIS has proven to be an extremely popular title that has resonated across the VR community,” said Joel Breton, GM of Vive Studios in a statement. “Collaborating with some of our favourite developers, we’ve created a premium update that gives “Ready Player One” fans a deeper dive into this rich universe.”

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“Ready Player One: OASIS is one of the most downloaded titles on Viveport,” said Rikard Steiber, president of Viveport. “We’re proud to be able to deliver this premium update to Viveport Subscribers at no additional cost to their monthly payment as they continue their adventure in the “Ready Player One” universe.”

If you already own Ready Player One: OASIS you can now purchase the Elite Gunter Pack DLC for $19.99 USD on Viveport, or find it on Viveport Subscription under Ready Player One: OASIS – Elite Gunter Edition. For any further updates keep reading VRFocus.

March 28, 2018

30+ VR Arcades Across US to Deploy HTC Vive’s Ready Player One Experiences

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One arrives in cinemas tomorrow and this week has seen a variety of virtual reality (VR) related content arrive on Viveport for HTC Vive. Today, HTC Vive has announced an expansion of those experiences, bringing them to over 30 VR arcades across the US.

Rise of the Gunters

Just like Viveport the arcades will feature Battle for the Oasis by Steel Wool Studios, Gauntlet from Directive Games and Rise of the Gunters from Drifter Entertainment. Additionally, they’ll also feature Aech’s Garage in Sansar interpreted from the original ILM design in the film and The Distracted Globe Music Experience in TheWaveVR. The former is available through Viveport while the latter can be downloaded through Steam (North america only).

“VR offers the ability to tell stories in an entirely new way for film audiences; they’ll be able to immerse themselves in worlds inspired by ‘Ready Player One’ like never before,” said Joel Breton, GM of Vive Studios in a statement. “With this program, we’re making great VR content available to arcades across the nation as a celebration of the movie and everything that VR can be.”

The VR content will begin rolling out to the 35 arcades today with more locations planned. In addition to these VR arcades, Microsoft Stores will feature Ready Player One content in 65 locations starting 29th March. To see the most up to date list of participating locations, visit: https://locator.vive.com/. For any further updates, keep reading VRFocus.

City	Arcade Name & Website
Albuquerque, NM (Coronado Mall)	All Out Zone VR Arcade
Albuquerque, NM (Cottonwood Mall)	All Out Zone VR Arcade
Austin, TX	Originator Studios
Brooklyn, NY	Yokey Pokey
Chandler, AZ	VR Junkies
Charlotte, NC	LiVReal
Daly City, CA	Fliptout Gaming
Duluth, GA	iSimU VR Arcade
Ellsworth, ME	Rush Hour Gaming
Honolulu, HI	VR Junkies
Houston, TX	Omniverse
Lake Oswego, OR	Red Rider VR
Las Vegas, NV	Vegas VR
Los Angeles, CA	IMAX VR Centre
Mechanicsburg, PA	FeVR Gaming
Miami, FL	Loft VR Arcade
Midland, TX	Pandoras Box
Myrtle Beach, SC	Myrtle Beach VR
New York, NY	IMAX VR at AMC Kips Bay 15
New York, NY	IMAX VR at Regal E-Walk Stadium 13
New York, NY	VR Bar
New York, NY	VR World
Norman, OK	Immersion House
Orem, UT	VR Junkies
Provo, UT	Virtual Experience
Raleigh, NC	VR Junkies
Salt Lake City, UT	VR Junkies
Santa Fe, NM	All Out Zone VR Arcade
Seattle, WA	Portal
Slidell, LA	Holotech
Slovang, CA	Space VR
St. Augustine, FL	VR Gaming – The Great Escape
Terre Haute, IN	Accushot VR World
Toronto, ON	IMAX VR at Scotiabank Theatre
Washington DC	Ekstasis VR Arcade (Augment Arcade)

March 26, 2018

Enter the Ready Player One Universe as Three VR Experiences Arrive on Viveport

Ready Player One is due to hit theatres this week and for fans eager to delve into the Ernest Cline’s fictional virtual reality (VR) focused world three new VR experiences have launched today on Viveport from Vive Studios.

Battle for the Oasis

Eight pieces of VR content inspired by the book were announced earlier this month, with the first three now available to HTC Vive users through Viveport. Published by Vive Studios, you can now play Battle for the Oasis by Steel Wool Studios (Bounce, The Horus Heresy: Betrayal at Calth), Gauntlet from Directive Games (Super Kaiju, The Machines), and Rise of the Gunters from Drifter Entertainment (Gunheart).

Battle for the Oasis is a wave-based shooter, killing IOI Sixers in your path. “Advance through the trenches of Planet Doom towards the snowy planes that surround Anorak’s Castle. With an arsenal only possible in the OASIS, you must stop IOI from gaining control,” states the official description.

Gauntlet is inspired by the first key dungeon. You must navigate through this seemingly endless labyrinth while fending off the undead. You can collect gold on route to improve your score whilst finding food will restore your health, your protection to make it out alive is a bow.

Rise of the Gunters

Rise of the Gunters is another fight against the army of highly trained IOI Sixers. This time you can chose to go it alone or with two fellow Gunters. Defeat Sixers to collect their coins, find power ups and survive a merciless onslaught for as long as it takes.

To access all three experiences and the others due to follow you’ll need to download Oasis Beta first, then access them through the portal. There are five more VR titles to come, all of which are due to arrive this month, very likely split over each day this week in the run up to Ready Player One’s launch.

VRFocus will continue its coverage of the Ready Player One experiences, reporting back when the next ones go live.

March 24, 2018

HTC Releases 3 ‘Ready Player One’ VR Experiences in ‘OASIS Beta’, Now Free on Viveport

HTC showed off eight Ready Player One-inspired experiences at the film’s debut event at SXSW. Now, the company has released three of these experiences on Viveport in a single download called Ready Player One: OASIS Beta.

Here’s the full list of mini-games available in Oasis Beta:

Planet Gauntlet – Navigate through a seemingly endless dungeon while the undead seek to destroy you. Collecting gold will improve your score and eating food will restore your health, but only your bow skills will ensure that you make it our alive. Developer: Directive Games
Planet Doom – Battle for the OASIS – Help to save the OASIS by defeating waves of IOI Sixers. Advance through the trenches of Planet Doom towards the snowy planes that surround Anorak’s Castle. With an arsenal of potent firepower, you must stop the Sixers from controlling the fate of the OASIS. Developer: Steel Wool Studios
Planet Doom – Rise of the Gunters – Fight against a nearly invincible army of highly trained IOI Sixers alone OR with up to two of your friends! Proceed with caution as you defeat Sixers, collect their coins, find power ups and survive a merciless onslaught of hyper-explosive kinetic action for as long as you can survive. The OASIS is yours. Take it back from IOI by yourself or with up to two fellow Gunters! Developer: Drifter Entertainment, Inc.

The download is available for free from Viveport, although at least one of the games is launching on Steam soon—Drifter Entertainment’s Rise of the Gunters—which includes support for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR headsets.