Another big is pulling out of E3 2017, as Oculus have introduced that it’s going to not have an official sales space at this 12 months’s occasion. Joining firms like EA who’re additionally not exhibiting, it marks the primary E3 since 2014 the place Oculus won’t have a big presence on the present ground.
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Reported by VentureBeat, Oculus have declined to remark precisely why they received’t be having their very own devoted sales space at this 12 months’s E3, however representatives did guarantee event-goers that the corporate “will have plenty of games and announcements to offer as the year progresses.” However, with the rising value of exhibiting at E3, mixed with the dearth of recent hardware to indicate off and the hubbub surrounding the departure of Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey, their choice to overlook this 12 months’s E3 could also be a sensible transfer in the long term. When you take into account that E3 is open to the general public this 12 months, it could most likely value a king’s ransom simply to inventory a sales space with sufficient VR headsets and employees to maintain queues always shifting.
However, Oculus received’t be utterly absent from E3, with different firms and VR builders utilizing the Rift to indicate off their new video games. As for the opposite huge participant on the planet of VR, HTC are at the moment not on the exhibitor list for this 12 months’s E3 however this might change forward of the occasion. Bethesda are planning to indicate off Fallout four VR on the HTC Vive, so anticipate them to pop up throughout Bethesda’s convention.
This often is the E3 the place we see extra firms bounce on the VR bandwagon, hoping to capitalise on Oculus’ absence. Either method, we’ll preserve you up to date on any huge information popping out of the VR world forward of this 12 months’s E3.
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