Something for the Weekend: Discounts on Oculus Rift and Oculus Go Titles

Happen to own an Oculus Rift or Oculus Go head-mounted display (HMD)? If you own the latter then you should definitely check out VRFocus’ Best Apps And Games To Download For Oculus Go feature for some good – and mostly free – recommendations. But for actual software deals going on this weekend take a look below.

The Limit

Only released this past week, Robert Rodriguez’s (Sin City, Machete, Dusk to Dawn) first foray into 360 features the talent of Michelle Rodriguez and Norman Reedus. The Limit is a high-octane, 20-minute action movie where the viewer is a character. The story goes that you play a rogue agent with a mysterious past who enlists the help of enhanced super-assassin M-13 (Michelle Rodriguez) to retrieve your identity and strike against the deadly organization that created you.

The Limit is currently available for £3.99 GBP on Oculus Store, rather than the usual £7.99 for both headsets.

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Wanted Killer VR

Currently, in Early Access, throws the player into a chaotic world full of blazing-guns as they attempt to take down the evil GENETIC MINDS Corp. Featuring 15 missions and four playable characters, each with their own particular gameplay style, you can take control of your enemies and their weapons with mind-bending teleportation powers.

Wanted Killer VR is currently available for £6.99 GBP on Oculus Store, rather than the usual £7.99 for Oculus Rift.

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Escape Room VR: Stories

Based on the popular real-life escape rooms this title leverages VR to its full potential. With highly detailed models and intractable objects within realistic looking environments, players will actually believe they are in those rooms needing to escape. Each room has its own plot and they all combine together to deliver a story that features multiple endings. If you want to experience a thrilling adventure then this is the title for you.

Escape Room VR: Stories is currently available for £8.99 GBP on Oculus Store, rather than the usual £10.99 for Oculus Rift.

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Ghostbusters VR: Now Hiring

Ghostbusters fans can now step into and explore the teams’ famous firehouse headquarters, getting up close and personal with Slimer, build proton packs, check out Ecto-1, and avoid touching the Ghost Containment Unit.

Ghostbusters VR: Now Hiring is currently available for £4.99 GBP on Oculus Store, rather than the usual £7.99 for Oculus Rift.

Drops: Rhythm Garden

“Drops is a physics-based musical instrument set in a serene environment and designed from the ground up for VR.”

Drops: Rhythm Garden is currently available for £3.99 GBP on Oculus Store, rather than the usual £4.99 for Oculus Rift.

A Chair in a Room: Greenwater

“A Chair in a Room: Greenwater is a tense Virtual Reality horror game set in America’s Deep South. Drawing on elements of Southern Gothic and using settings of derelict towns, run-down motels and murky, decaying swamps, A Chair in a Room will take you through an investigation of institutional corruption, religious immorality and murder, which can only be unlocked by searching deep within your own psyche.”

A Chair in a Room: Greenwater is currently available for £14.99 GBP on Oculus Store, rather than the usual £18.99 for Oculus Rift.

Fat Foods

Having eaten too many pies you’re now too fat to walk anywhere so your big round arse needs to roll everywhere. That’s the basic premise of Fat Foods, with the goal to eat as much as possible. Armed with a frying pan and spatula you need to control the bulbous character, with certain modes even pitting you against friends.

Fat Foods is currently available for £2.99 GBP on Oculus Store, rather than the usual £3.99 for Oculus Rift.

The Wizards: Trials of Meliora

The Wizards: Trials of Meliora is the next step in Carbon Studio’s spellbinding series The Wizards. Designed specifically for mobile devices, the videogame enables players to wield powerful spells as they defend the realm.

The Wizards: Trials of Meliora is currently available for £2.79 GBP on Oculus Store, rather than the usual £2.99 for Oculus Go.

The Wizards: Trials of Meliora

The Limit: VR-Actionfilm mit Norman Reedus für sämtliche VR-Plattformen erschienen

Mit The Limit veröffentlicht STX Entertainment einen neuen VR-Actionfilm mit Starbesetzung für sämtliche VR-Plattformen. Zur Besetzung gehören Michelle Rodriguez (unter anderem bekannt aus Fast & Furious 8) und Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead). Regie führte Robert Rodriguez (unter anderem bekannt für Sin City (2005)). Der Titel ist bereits für Oculus Rift, HTC Vive und mobile VR-Brillen erhältlich. Die Version für PlayStation VR (PSVR) soll in naher Zukunft folgen.

The Limit – VR-Actionfilm mit Starbesetzung

In The Limit dürfen die Zuschauer und Zuschauerinnen in eine actionhaltige Agentenstory mit Sci-Fi-Elementen eintauchen. Dabei spielen bionische Upgrades, die Frage nach der eigenen Identität sowie der Kampf gegen eine böse Organisation eine zentrale Rolle. Genre-typisch darf eine Verfolgungsjagd mit Autos sowie ein Sprung aus einem Flugzeug natürlich auch nicht fehlen. Die Laufzeit beträgt ca. 20 Minuten.

Vick Rey, Leiter des STXSurreal Studios (eine Unterabteilung von STX Entertainment), findet große Worte zu dem immersiven Filmwerk:

Die Veröffentlichung von The Limit ist ein Wendepunkt für die VR und gibt Fans von Premiumentertainment einen überzeugenden Grund dafür, ihre VR-Brillen aufzusetzen. In Übereinstimmung mit dem Modell von STX haben wir dafür auf bekannte Talente gesetzt. So wurden Robert, Michelle und Norman, die gemeinsam mehrere Millionen Fans auf der ganzen Welt aufweisen, angeworben, um neue Wege zu beschreiten und diesen kategoriebrechenden cineastischen VR-Film zum Leben zu erwecken.”

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Das Studio STX Entertainment arbeitet derzeit an einer ganzen Reihe von immersiven Live-Actionfilmen in VR. Neben der jüngsten Veröffentlichung soll eine VR-Adaption von Jay and Silent Bob unter der Regie von Kevin Smith, ein Dave Bautista Action-Comedyfilm, ein Sci-Fi-Thriller im Unterwasser-Setting von Johannes Roberts und ein Thriller von Christian Gudegast folgen.

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Image courtesy: STX Entertainment

The Limit ist derzeit zum reduzierten Preis für Oculus Rift und HTC Vive im Viveport für 4,24 Euro sowie im Oculus Store für 4,99 Euro erhältlich. Ebenso für mobile VR-Brillen wie Oculus Go, Gear VR und Daydream in den entsprechenden digitalen Stores. Die Versionen für PlayStation VR (PSVR) und Windows-VR-Brillen sowie iOS und Steam folgen in Kürze.

(Quellen: Road to VR | Variety | Video: STX Entertainment YouTube)

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Robert Rodriguez Takes Viewers to ‘The Limit’ in his Latest Film

Fans of film director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Machete, Dusk to Dawn) will be pleased to know that he’s now entered the field of 360-degree cinematography, releasing The Limit in collaboration with virtual reality (VR) studio STXsurreal.

Starring the talent of Michelle Rodriguez and Norman Reedus, The Limit is a high-octane, 20-minute action movie where the viewer is a character. The story goes that you play a rogue agent with a mysterious past who enlists the help of enhanced super-assassin M-13 (Michelle Rodriguez) to retrieve your identity and strike against the deadly organization that created you.

“The launch of The Limit is a watershed moment in VR, and gives fans of premium scripted entertainment a compelling reason to put their headsets back on,” said Andy Vick and Rick Rey, co-presidents of Virtual Reality & Immersive Entertainment at STXsurreal in a statement. “In keeping with STX’s talent-driven model, we enlisted Robert, Michelle, and Norman, who collectively have millions of passionate fans across the globe, to break new ground and bring this category-busting cinematic VR film to life.”

The Limit will support Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, Windows Mixed Reality, PlayStation VR and Google Daydream, available to purchase today from their respective retail platforms. For a limited time, there’s a 50 percent discount available, dropping the cost from $9.99 USD to $4.99 for PC-based headsets, and $3.99 instead of $7.99 for mobile platforms.

To celebrate the launch Robert Rodriguez will participate in a fireside chat via Oculus Venues on Friday, 23rd November to discuss The Limit through Oculus Go and Samsung Gear VR.

STXsurreal has further immersive content planned including a Jay and Silent Bob project from writer and director Kevin Smith, a crime-thriller from director Christian Gudegast, an untitled Dave Bautista action-comedy, and an underwater Sci-fi-thriller from Johannes Roberts. As further details are released on these projects, VRFocus will keep you updated.

‘Sin City’ Director’s Immersive Action Film ‘The Limit’ Comes to All Major VR Platforms

STXsurreal, the immersive content wing of STX Entertainment, today launched their latest immersive VR video, this time directed by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez (Sin City). Called The Limit, the 20-minute action film stars Michelle Rodriguez (Lost, Avatar, Fast & Furious) and Norman Reedus (The Walking Dead, The Boondock Saints) in what promises to be a heart-pumping thrill ride.

In The Limit you step into the shoes of play a rogue agent with a mysterious past who enlists the help of enhanced super-assassin M-13 (Michelle Rodriguez) to retrieve your identity and strike against the deadly organization that created you.

Image courtesy STXsurreal

The Limit is said to feature something the company dubs an “all-new cinematic VR format,” that’s offered in both 3D and 2D variants at a slightly wider field of view than 180 degrees, but smaller than a full 360 capture.

Image courtesy STXsurreal

The company says The Limit represents the first in a series of live-action, immersive cinematic experiences from STXsurreal. Several other projects are currently in development, including a Jay and Silent Bob project from writer and director Kevin Smith, a crime-thriller from director Christian Gudegast, an untitled Dave Bautista action-comedy, and an underwater Sci-fi-thriller from Johannes Roberts.

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The Limit is available today as an app across major VR platforms including Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Windows VR, PSVR, Gear VR, Oculus Go, Daydream, and Cardboard. You’ll find it now on the Oculus Store, Viveport, Google Play, with links for Steam, the PlayStation Store, and iOS cardboard coming soon.

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The Limit Review: Michelle Rodriguez And Norman Reedus Can’t Elevate This B-Movie Dud

The Limit Review: Michelle Rodriguez And Norman Reedus Can’t Elevate This B-Movie Dud

In terms of ‘star power’, The Limit is about as good as it gets for VR moviemaking right now. This 180 degree short stars Widows’ Michelle Rodriguez and The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus, and is directed by Sin City’s Robert Rodriguez. That’s quite a turn out for a 20-minute short, but The Limit is proof that a portfolio in traditional film doesn’t count for much when it comes to VR.

Whilst the director may be graduating to the highest tier of blockbuster with next year’s Alita: Battle Angel, The Limit sees Rodriguez stick closer to his B-movie roots. It’s a low-rent Terminator; two cyborg-like humans go in search of a mutual friend and they’ll kick and punch just about anything in their way until they find him.

In some ways, there’s a real novelty to what Rodriguez does here. The first time you look at M-13 (played by Michelle Rodriguez) there’s a spark of excitement at having the star of several Fast and Furious movies look you in the eye. And it’s tough not to laugh at the ham-fisted dialogue (‘I hope you drive better than you pick weapons’) and crusty special effects, which include Reedus in his best Winter Soldier cosplay. Though there are some surprisingly polished moments including an explosive skydive, you can’t help but feel that much of the action is closer to Comic-Con attendees imitating rather than the real thing.

But as an experiment in VR storytelling, The Limit is flawed. It’s largely told from a first-person perspective, but Rodriguez often commits the cardinal sin of forcing the camera to move to where he wants you to look, creating plenty of uncomfortable moments that pull you right out of the experience. You can understand the desire to make sure viewers didn’t miss important plot points, but there has to be a more elegant solution than this.

In fact, traditional cinema’s fingerprints can be found all over The Limit. At times the action makes so many cuts and transitions you wonder why it was shot in VR at all. There’s a lot of close shots that feel like they’re far too focused on one particular item, making it impossible to look away and enjoy the freedom and immersion that VR provides. Then there’s the first-person action, which is not only oddly disconnected from the viewer but also largely unexciting. If I can do these things myself in Superhot VR, what’s the point of watching a live action movie that isn’t anywhere as engaging? The problem with this experimental film is just that; it doesn’t feel all that experimental.

Final Say: Not Recommended

The Limit is available now on Oculus Go and Gear VR at a discounted price of $4.99. Its full price will be $9.99.

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The Limit Is A New VR Series Directed By Robert Rodriguez

The Limit Is A New VR Series Directed By Robert Rodriguez

Sin City director Robert Rodriguez and Fast and Furious actor Michelle Rodriguez are teaming up for an original VR series called The Limit.

The show is set to air on Surreal, a new pay-per-view VR channel from STX Entertainment launching later this year. The series will be shot from a first-person perspective with Robert Rodriguez co-writing, directing and producing it. No word yet on which headsets the experience will be available on.

In The Limit, Michelle Rodriguez plays a genetically enhanced weapon of mass destruction that seeks revenge on those who created her. That’s all we know about it for now, though the director and actor have previously worked on other films including the Machete series which might give you some hints as to what to expect (blood, and lots of it).

We’ll definitely be interested to see what comes out of The Limit, especially with its first-person view. VR video content appears to be increasingly attracting big names of late; there are also series starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage on the way while Terrence Malik is directing a VR experience to be shown that this year’s South by Southwest.

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