Jonathan Blow, skaparen av Braid, håller på för fullt med sitt nästa spel The Witness. Nu har han, via via spelets officiella blogg berättat att han kommer att implementera stöd för VR-hårdvara (virtual reality) efter att ha imponerats av Valves framsteg inom området.
"Last year I was pessimistic about VR systems in the near future since the ones I had tried didn't seem to offer much (certainly not enough to justify wearing a bulky headset all the time and fighting back feelings of Nausea). But I was fortunate enough to get a sneak peek at Valve's virtual reality system. It is so much better than anything else I had used that I was instantly very excited by it."
"Right away I could see games you might design for this system that had been impossible before; so it isn't just a matter of the system being very immersive (which it is) but that it can take video games in general to a new place."
Och för finsmakarna:
"In theory the whole game is playable on the device, but when you are rendering for VR the performance demands become much higher, because you are rendering two scenes at higher resolution than you might previously have been rendering one scene. So the full game world with all content currently does not run fast enough for this device, but that is the kind of problem that gets solved over time."
I slutet av inlägget förklarar Blow att The Witness därmed kommer att ha stöd för Valves VR-hårdvara såväl som liknande varianter på marknaden.