Today, Ubisoft announced that Star Trek: Bridge Crew, the virtual reality game where players explore space as a member of Starfleet, is now available for Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR and HTC Vive. Unfortunately it’s not available for my Virtual Boy, so I’m a bit out of luck on this one.
Star Trek: Bridge Crew puts fans into the Star Trek universe as they assume the role of a Starfleet officer and complete missions that will determine the fate of their ship and crew. Playable cooperatively online with a crew, or solo as Captain, Star Trek: Bridge Crew puts players and their friends directly onto the bridge of a new starship, the U.S.S. Aegis, as they are dispatched to explore an uncharted sector of space.
In addition to an original story campaign, Star Trek: Bridge Crew features an Ongoing Voyages mode featuring randomized missions for countless hours of solo and co-op adventures on board the U.S.S Aegis or the legendary U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701, authentically recreated from Star Trek: The Original Series.
Created exclusively for VR, Star Trek: Bridge Crew utilizes the sense of social presence possible through virtual reality. Through hand tracking and full-body avatars, including real-time lip-sync, players can live out their Star Trek fantasies as they operate the Starfleet ship as Captain, Engineer, Helm or Tactical. Each role is crucial to the success of the varied missions players face, and only by working together can the crew complete their objectives.
Additionally, Star Trek: Bridge Crew will include IBM Watson interactive speech and cognitive capabilities during an experimental beta period this summer. With IBM Watson, players will be able to use their voice and natural-language commands to interact with their virtual Starfleet crew members.
This is probably the closest thing any of us will ever get to living out our dreams of being a part of a starship, but it’s still going to cost you an arm and a leg with all the VR gadgets you’ll need for this on. Chances are that while the PlayStation VR version wont be as clean and crisp as the PC counterparts, it’ll be the one that people snap up as the cost of entry is far lower. Only time will tell!
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