Rock Band Is Coming To Oculus Rift

That's a surprisingly good idea.

Disappointingly enough, there was no big, major Oculus Rift announcement at The Game Awards tonight (though the headset did get a small segment by Palmer Luckey himself). We did get what you might construe as a major announcement for the platform, though- Harmonix are working on a version of Rock Band for Oculus Rift.

Rock Band is the kind of game that would greatly benefit from VR, and from what was said on stage, it sounded like it will be done justice on Oculus- we are talking about a game where you are jamming it out, surrounded by thousands of adoring fans cheering you on in VR. It’s the kind of thing that would probably be the ideal VR experience, given its intrinsic universal appeal, as well as the relative lack of motion, thus negating the issue of motion sickness.

Oculus Rift itself was re-confirmed for Q1 2016, which means it is almost here.

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