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Stranger Things: The VR Experience Now Available for Free on PlayStation VR

Free virtual reality (VR) content is always a good thing, and most recently it’s been the turn of Netflix to offer PlayStation VR users something fresh. Stranger Things: The VR Experience is now available to download via the PlayStation Store, free of charge.

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Originally confirmed for release on PlayStation VR back in October of this year, Stranger Things: The VR Experience is an opportunity to visit the house of Joyce Byers after some particularly strange goings-on. What can the alphabet scrawled on the wall mean? Why are there fairy lights hanging everywhere? And what’s up with the telephone?

Fans of the series will be very aware of the trauma that the Byers family has suffered, and what mysteries are hiding behind the odd arrangements in the homestead. Stranger Things: The VR Experience will challenge them to experience the terror of the Upside Down for themselves.

Originally a showcase piece at San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) earlier this year, Stranger Things: The VR Experience launches on PlayStation VR with a few technical adjustments. The location-based experience required backpack PCs for a fully free-roaming experience, whereas the PlayStation VR edition is of course adapted for the more limited home-based PlayStation VR hardware.

Stranger Things: The VR Experience requires a set of two PlayStation Move motion-controllers and is not compatible with the DualShock 4 controller. At launch, the experience supports German, English, Italian, French and Spanish languages.

Stranger Things: The VR Experience screenshotThe latest in a longline of tie-in VR experiences, Stranger Things: The VR Experience follows the recently released Justice League VR: The Complete Experience which has been criticised heavily by the VR community for a lack of depth. Hopes are high that Stranger Things: The VR Experience will live up to the fans’ expectations in the same way that the critically acclaimed second season of the Netflix show has.

You can download Stranger Things: The VR Experience via the PlayStation Store now, for free. The original debut teaser trailer for the PlayStation VR edition of Stranger Things: The VR Experience follows below and VRFocus will keep you updated with any further free VR content made available for PlayStation VR.

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Stranger Things: The VR Experience Coming Soon to PlayStation VR, new Trailer Released

If you’ve not watched season one of hit Netflix show Stranger Things yet then you really should as the second season has now begun streaming. Becoming the norm at the moment is the addition of a virtual reality (VR) experience to popular TV shows and movies and Stranger Things is no different, with content first being shown during the San Diego Comic Con (SDCC) earlier this year. Today, a new trailer has been released confirming support for PlayStation VR.

The short 30 second teaser trailer for Stranger Things: The VR Experience doesn’t reveal any gameplay footage, cinematic moments or anything that really details what the videogame might be like – it is a teaser after all.

All you get are the famous blinking lights above the alphabet, with four spelling out ‘PSVR’ before they all change to say ‘coming soon to PlayStation VR’. And that’s all you get. With the first episode of season two having been broadcast last week it’s more than likely that the VR experience will appear at some point during this season.

The previous SDCC 360-degree video was set in the house of Joyce Byers, as was the VR experience attendees got to try using HTC Vive. So it’s likely that the PlayStation VR version will be a port of this original title – although SDCC players donned a backpack PC and walked around a massive roomscale environment using OptiTrack sensors – albeit with a few changes to work with PlayStation VR’s technology.

VRFocus will continue to follow Stranger Things: The VR Experience, reporting back with any further updates.