GameDevNews May 4th 2018
The Oculus potentially rising market part
Market Intelligence firm (Superdata) expects a market forming for the new Oculus Stand-Alone VR headset. The firm’s latest quarterly cross-reality report on the VR, AR and MR scene forecasts 2018 shipments of 1.18 million for the just-launched device. That would make it the market leading product in terms of VR/AR/MR, except the Google Cardboard.
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On the other hand, Superdata isn’t very optimistic about PC-based VR devices and is expecting 170k HTV Vive headsets along with 120k each for Occulus and Windows mixed reality. That attitude seems to extend in th future, while the PC-based VR revenues could shrink to half their current size by 2021. In the meantime, the losses will be more than compensated by the growth of the Standalone and console VR market.
A full CryEngine Bundle
A very interesting offer coming from Humble is actually online and it could interest Game developers, especially those who are or will work on the CryEngine. In this package you will find a handful of games made with Crytek’s Engine plus an access to a wealth of game development resources.
Like every other Humble Bundles, the more you pay, the more content you get and you will have to pitch in 15£ to get everything but even the 1$ tier gives developers access to CryEngine V samples, webinar training videos and a pack of animation assets from the Crysis series.
The second Tier will require developers to pay more than the average bundle price to get CryEngine asset files for Robinson: The Journey, Ryse: Son of Rome, and an underwater demo in addition to a handful of games. Paying 15$ will give you acess to Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 and Homefront: The Revolution as well as asset packs for Deceit and The Climb.
