{"id":11619,"date":"2014-06-23T22:39:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T05:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=11619"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:14:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:14:15","slug":"to-infinity-and-beyond-vr-games-embrace-space-travel-and-innovation-at-e3-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/to-infinity-and-beyond-vr-games-embrace-space-travel-and-innovation-at-e3-2014","title":{"rendered":"To infinity and beyond: VR games embrace space travel and innovation at E3 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"the-author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/author\/gjvaldes\/\" rel=\"author me\">Giancarlo Valdes<\/a><\/span> \u2014 Venture Beat<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image-59721\" class=\"single\" style=\"left: 0px; top: 0px;\" src=\"\" alt=\"To infinity and beyond: VR games embrace space travel and innovation at\u00a0E3\u00a02014\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-size=\"single\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">We can finally talk about virtual reality games with a straight face.<\/p>\n<p>At this year\u2019s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game <a id=\"KonaLink0\" class=\"kLink\" style=\"text-decoration: underline !important; position: static; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/06\/22\/to-infinity-and-beyond-vr-games-embrace-space-travel-and-innovation-at-e3-2014\/#\"><span style=\"color: #4479bd; font-family: inherit ! important; font-weight: inherit ! important; font-size: inherit ! important; position: static;\"><span class=\"kLink\" style=\"color: #4479bd !important; font-family: inherit !important; font-weight: inherit !important; font-size: inherit !important; position: relative;\">trade<\/span><\/span><\/a> show in Los Angeles, a small pool of VR games held their own against a big slate of <a title=\"GamesBeat\u2019s favorite indies of E3 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/06\/17\/gamesbeats-favorite-indies-of-e3-2014\/\">indie titles<\/a> and <a title=\"E3 2014: The Games of the Show (GamesBeat staff picks)\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/06\/17\/e3-2014-the-games-of-the-show-gamesbeat-staff-picks\/\">triple-A blockbusters<\/a>. This is the first year that Oculus VR, the poster boy for VR\u2019s resurgence with its popular Oculus Rift headset, had a presence on the expo floor, an elegant booth that wasn\u2019t too far from Oculus\u2019s biggest competitor, Sony\u2019s Project Morpheus. Neither company has set a release date for their devices (Samsung, <a title=\"Samsung is making a VR headset to beat Oculus VR and Sony\u2019s Project Morpheus\" href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/05\/22\/samsung-is-making-a-vr-headset-to-beat-oculus-vr-and-sony-morpheus\/\">the third challenger<\/a> for the VR crown, is trying to beat them both to market).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2014\/06\/22\/to-infinity-and-beyond-vr-games-embrace-space-travel-and-innovation-at-e3-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giancarlo Valdes \u2014 Venture Beat We can finally talk about virtual reality games with a straight face. At this year\u2019s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) video game trade show in Los Angeles, a small pool of VR games held their own against a big slate of indie titles and triple-A blockbusters. This is the first year [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47025,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11619\/revisions\/47025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}