Hideo Kojima has ceased work on his VR game - MIXED Reality News

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After years of hints and rumors, legendary crippled decorator Hideo Kojima has confirmed that helium is nary longer moving connected a VR game.

In caller years, determination person been repeated rumors astir a virtual world crippled by Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. In January 2022, the Twitter tract OopsLeaks said that his workplace Kojima Productions had received developer kits for Playstation VR 2 successful November 2021 and was moving connected a “smaller project”.

This could beryllium a VR crippled oregon VR experience. VR storyteller Céline Tricart was besides progressive successful the project, according to OopsLeaks. Kojima revealed to Tokyo vigor presumption J-Wave astir a twelvemonth agone that his challenging small indie crippled was a task that “plays otherwise than thing before.”

No VR crippled from Hideo Kojima

In a caller interrogation with the Japanese Pocket Shonenmagazine, hopes for a VR crippled by Hideo Kojima successful the adjacent aboriginal were destroyed. In the speech with manga writer Ryosuke Fuji, the taxable of virtual world besides came up.

“Actually, I erstwhile tried to marque an innovative crippled successful VR, but that task was besides interrupted. But I deliberation determination is technological imaginable for VR. Technology is advancing rapidly, and determination are much things that tin beryllium done, not conscionable successful VR, truthful I deliberation it volition beryllium imaginable to marque galore much kinds of games successful the future.”

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Unfortunately, the prima developer did not uncover immoderate further accusation astir his cancelled project. In the past fewer years, Kojima has repeatedly expressed however open-minded helium is towards VR exertion and its imaginable to transcend accepted screens.

Kojima struggles with VR nausea

Kojima’s narration with VR seems complex, particularly successful presumption of simulation sickness. He reveals his acquisition with virtual world to Pocket Shonenmagazine, saying that helium tried it but got question sickness.

His interviewee Ryosuke Fuji besides has a peculiar narration with VR. His manga adaptation of “Shangri-La Frontier” successful Shonen mag is acceptable successful the adjacent future, erstwhile level screens are seen lone arsenic outdated retro technology. Immersive VR games are ubiquitous successful this world.

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