Rare's famous squirrel Conker is in Hololens, but no one's happy about it. And his condition shows that the industry needs to know when to call it quits.
Will this bring the development of more videogames like Young Conker?
On 30th March Microsoft began shipping its mixed reality (MR) head-mounted display (HMD) HoloLens to developers in the US and Canada. During its development one studio that’s been mentioned a number of times to be working on several projects was French indie developer Asobo Studios. Three titles that were in production were Fragments, Young Conker and HoloTour. Now the studio has announced all three are available for the device.
To the delight of many developers and technophiles, Microsoft announced the development edition of its HoloLens virtual reality headset is about to start shipping. The tech giant is also hoping to inspire gaming developers as well.
Each device will arrive packed with a trio of games, two of which were created by French developer Asobo Studio. Those titles are the platform action game Young Conker and the murder mystery Fragments. The third game rounding out the trio is RoboRaid, produced by Microsoft itself, making Asobo the only external developer with hands-on for game development on HoloLens.
Could? Outside of some gimmicky stuff on 3ds and ps camera what else is there? I think Halo lens would offer a nice alternative to vr. If it gets the software support.
It has a lot of potential. I'm glad Microsoft is getting them out to developers early so they get at least 2 years to work on apps and games for it before it finally launches to the public in 2018-2019.No need to even try to release this in 2016 or 2017, as there wouldn't be much content for it. By the time it does get released, the cost of it will be a lot cheaper then $3000 and I'm sure there will be a ton of improvements. This is very cool, but we still have to wait and see how well VR does for the Oculus Rift, Vive HTC and PSVR first. If those VR units fail to make a big splash, Microsoft may never even release their Hololens.
Hololense isn't competing with vr though. Its not even a gaming device. Whether the vr solutions do well or not shouldn't impact whether they decide to release or not.
It won't. Gaming is essentially an afterthought and an easy way to promote hololens. It has far more commercial applications (like VR) and will not be priced at consumers. People thought O Rift was expensive, well...
im saving for hololones once it release for public. it will be a game changer. like or not
At least you'll have plenty of time to save, I imagine several years at best and you'll need it, with the initial dev kits costing $3000.
With traditional TVs and established VR ecosystem, I'm sure some developers will entertain the idea of supporting it.
$3000?!? That price has to come down to at least $600 to be viable as a gaming peripheral. Is the field of view still the size of a deck of cards?
No price has been announced. The dev kits cost $3000. If you are a developer you get the hardware, development software/tools and support to go with it. This isn't something aimed at consumer use. Hololens is also a wireless stand alone device with it's own built in processing unit. While it is capable for gaming, that isn't it's primary use.
Game changer for Windows. If they can get full windows working in an AR capacity that would be awesome! Be great for rts games too. The minecraft demonstration was pretty cool as well.
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Oooooor its a sign to actually make the games people want.
This is just a slap in the face to Conker fans. Like, really? If you don't want to make a new Conker game fine, but at least stop with all this crud that gets fans' hopes up.
Some people saw the young Conker tech demo as a sign MS is interested in the Conker IP. I would disagree somewhat, there was the decent but very limited Conker's big reunion, which at least looked and felt like a Conker game. Young Conker has shoe-horned written all over it. Look at my avatar and look at the Young Conker character model, they don't even look like the same character.
Who ever did the Young Conker character design should be fired. I don't get how these companies pay people so much to generate stupid ideas so frequently. I don't think MS has much interest in the Conker IP (they haven't shown much interest in investing in the IP). Heck Conker in a power suit would have made a funny character for Killer Instinct. If no true Conker game is announced this E3, don't expect one ever. This is unfortunate since the character and series never got proper closure.
Sign, another day, another way to hate on MS. This was a demo of young conker on a dev kit for hololens to show devs what they can do. It was NOT a game.....anything they seem to do people want to hate for the complete wrong reasons or purposely hate on them period. Seems like a certain segment likes to stir the pot and step back to watch their crap overflow.
The dislikes on that video are gold :D