VR classic “The Blu” makes a free comeback – with new content - MIXED Reality News

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TheBlu is an iconic VR acquisition that near mouths agape successful 2016, demonstrating room-scale virtual reality. Now it’s back.

The archetypal was released successful clip for the motorboat of the HTC Vive successful April 2016.

You volition look a whale connected the platform of a shipwreck and look into the eyes of the majestic animal, find yourself successful the mediate of a coral reef and glowing jellyfish and oversea turtles, oregon dive down with a flashlight into the pitch-black heavy oversea wherever a gigantic underwater carnal awaits you.

You tin determination freely wrong the locations and interact with the realistically rendered situation acknowledgment to the Vive controllers. That was a technical sensation successful 2016.

As a reminder, the Oculus Rift, launched the aforesaid year, did not enactment room-scale virtual world and shipped with an Xbox gamepad alternatively of VR controllers. With VR experiences similar TheBlu, Valve and HTC stole the amusement from Oculus and Facebook. The Blu was astir apt the astir played VR demo, on with Tilt Brush.

Swimming with hammerhead sharks

Almost 7 years on, the workplace responsible, Wevr, is backmost with a refresh of the VR classic.

A caller mentation of the VR acquisition has been released connected Steam, which is optimized for DLCs and comes with new features and content.

“We re-architected the merchandise from the crushed up to marque it easier for america to collectively marque and stock caller episodes going forward, which tin beryllium accessed arsenic DLC,” the workplace writes.

TheBlu is present accessible for free, with the whale brushwood escaped and the remaining episodes DLC paid for, including the marque caller occurrence “Hammerhead Cove”. This 1 transports you to the Caribbean, wherever you’ll brushwood peaceful hammerhead sharks and different shark taxon and food successful a light-filled sea.

The workplace has besides updated navigation and artificial locomotion to today’s standards, arsenic good arsenic added support for manus tracking.

TheBlu is presently lone disposable connected Steam, but a Quest mentation is expected to beryllium released soon.

TheBlu becomes a platform

The squad holds retired the imaginable of much content.

“Going forward, we’ll proceed to make caller unsocial DLC episodes, and… we’re going to unfastened up TheBlu to creators astir the satellite processing each kinds of caller water encounters with myriads of taxon and habitats,” the squad writes.

Wevr has created its ain unreality level called WVS (Wevr Virtual Studio) for this purpose, done which developers tin collaborate and make caller contented for TheBlu. The update to the VR acquisition was developed with WVS by professionals from Los Angeles, Florida and the Netherlands.

You tin find TheBlu connected Steam. DLC costs $2.

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