Xbox and Oculus will be partnering for a new experience for gamers. The two will team up for the upcoming "Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition" that will support Oculus Rift. This means a different level of gaming since one will be able to use it with virtual reality.
"We’re very excited to announce that Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition will support Oculus Rift and will be available for purchase in both the Windows Store and the Oculus Store this spring," Xbox announced in a blogpost, "Windows 10 is the best platform for playing games on the Oculus Rift, and it was clear that one of the biggest games on Windows 10 would be the perfect way to experience virtual reality."
Oculus Rift will have an app housed in its controller installed on your PC with Windows 10 to establish a connection. Minecraft can be played both for Creative and Survival mode in full 3D. When playing multiplayer, gamers can build, mine, explore and play cooperatively with the virtual world.
The app which can be purchased via the Windows Store and also from the Oculus’s own app Store, will be expected to be released this spring.
With Oculus Rift, users will be able to play Minecraft at a level that they have never experienced before. The Minecraft gameplay on 3D remains the same, the Tech Poral reported.
Previously, Microsoft showed us how Minecraft can be played and experienced through the Hololens, during the Hololens launch.
But despite the talks and announcements of bringing the VR headset to gaming console, Oculus vice president Nate Mitchell told Polygon that the team is “not so close” to bringing the technology to Xbox.
“It has been a conversation, but I can say we’re not so close. What we were finding is that it’s hard enough to deliver a great experience reliably on Windows, never mind adding OS X and Linux to that, which are different beasts entirely. Because of that, we’ve been laser focused on getting Windows in awesome shape. No one is really thinking right now about bringing the Rift to a console, especially when the spec is so different from what we’re targeting right now,” Mitchell said according to Gamerant.
Said partnership has long been rumored due to the move of Sony and PlayStation 4 called PlayStation VR, boasting impressive features like its 120 frames per second.
