EVE: Valkyrie Shown Off at Pre-E3 Oculus Event

During a pre-E3 event hosted by Oculus, CEO of CCP Games Hilmar Petursson showed off EVE: Valkyrie, the virtual reality-based first person space battle simulator set in the EVE universe, and discussed what it meant to the team to work with Oculus on this game.

Petursson went on to describe EVE: Valkyire as a “Cinderella story” for CCP Games. He said that the team was very inspired by what Oculus was hoping to do with VR gaming when they announced their Kickstarter. Once the team got their first test kit for the Oculus Rift, the first thing they built was a demo in which you fly through space and shoot things. EVE: Valkyrie is a game that was designed from the ground up for a VR gaming experience, rather than a game that was designed to support VR later in its development lifecycle.

A demo of EVE: Valkyrie was also shown. The demo plays out from a first-person perspective within a spaceship’s cockpit. As the demo continues, a space battle ensues and the pilot does its best to fight off enemy ships before ultimately having their own ship destroyed.

EVE: Valkyrie is being co-published by Oculus where the PC is concerned, but CCP Games also partnered with Sony to bring the VR space battle simulator to PlayStation 4 using Sony’s own VR headset Project Morpheus.