Rockband VR

Game Awards 2015: Rock Band VR

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Published: December 3, 2015 11:18 PM

Palmer Lucky hit the stage with a Rock Band guitar to announce Rock Band VR, a version of the popular plastic instruments game designed with the Oculus Rift in mind. It is a first party development, with Oculus Studios creating the game in partnership with traditional franchise creators Harmonix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KykD2fGY53c

The trailer for the game included DragonForce teaching Palmer and his crew how to live like rock stars. Once it shifted over to gameplay, you could see a first person view of the guitarist wielding a virtual facsimile of the Rock Band guitar. The style from the game's background graphics has been preserved and was shown off as brief in-game footage of someone playing "Through The Fire and Flames" was shown. Rock Band VR will be launching near the launch of the Oculus Rift in Q1 of 2016.

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