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No Oculus Studios Projects At E3, Facebook Confirms

Facebook will not be showing any new Oculus Studios projects during next week’s E3 streams.

Studios Executive Producer Mike Doran confirmed as much in a recent post on Reddit. “The Oculus Studios team will not be showing anything at E3,” Doran said, “but stay tuned!”

To be clear, Doran is only speaking on behalf of Oculus Studios – it’s possible that Facebook’s VR efforts still pop up during E3 in some way.

Facebook hasn’t announced another VR Gaming Showcase for the big event – it held its first one in April. There are several Studios projects we know about on the horizon right now – Rift exclusive Lone Echo 2 is finally coming this summer and Facebook is partnering with Capcom to bring Resident Evil 4 to the Quest 2 as the platform’s first full exclusive. A similar partnership with Ubisoft will bring Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell to VR, too.

Last month, CEO Mark Zuckerberg also seemed to accidentally confirm that Facebook-owned Downpour Interactive is making Onward 2.

It’s not too surprising that Oculus Studios is skipping E3, however. We’re now likely just a few months away from Facebook’s annual VR event, Facebook Connect, which is where the company often puts a big spotlight on news games. We might well see another Gaming Showcase before or around that time, too.

Of course, E3 won’t be without VR news. On Friday we confirmed that we’ll be bringing back the Upload VR Showcase over the course of the show. You can tune in on June 12th at 3pm PT for new game trailers and reveals not just for Quest titles but PSVR and PC VR too. You won’t want to miss it!

 

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Community Download: What Do You Want From The PSVR State Of Play?

Community Download is a weekly discussion-focused articles series published (usually) every Monday in which we pose a single, core question to you all, our readers, in the spirit of fostering discussion and debate. For today’s Community Download, we want to know what you want to see most at the upcoming PlayStation State of Play that will feature PSVR games prominently?

Following the news this morning that the DualShock 4, PS Move controllers, PS Aim controller, and PS4 Camera will all work with the PS5, excitement for the future of PSVR is certainly high right now. Notably, DualShock 4 controllers will not work with PS5 games on the new console, only backwards compatible PS4 and PSVR games. It’s still great news because it means if you have a PSVR now, you can buy a PS5 and know that your existing VR hardware is going to work thanks to a free adapter.

Then, earlier this morning again, Sony announced another State of Play presentation is on the way this Thursday at 1PM PT. In the announcement tweet they also went several steps further to clarify a focus on upcoming PS4 and PSVR games, a few check-ins from the PS5 showcase, but then also specifically warns it won’t have any big PS5 announcements.

The State of Play will be over 40 minutes long! Here’s the original tweet:

Which brings us to the topic at hand: What do you most want to see from the State of Play? Since it’s almost certainly not including any PS5 games or any mention of PSVR 2 hardware, what are your realistic predictions? And what about your most unlikely?

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