Reiza Studios have issued an official statement on the status of virtual reality implementation for their Automobilista title.
Virtual Reality was part of Reiza’s crowd funding push last summer and in the statement below, the studio updates us on the states of affair on this much-discussed feature:
Some may recollect that we did initially propose support for VR towards the end of last year??s crowdfunding campaign for further SCE development, which eventually became AMS – unfortunately a few months after the campaign wrapped, circumstances developed both in the VR front (the evolving nature of this new technology, specifically DX9 no longer being officially supported by OR which effectively moved the goal posts from when we had proposed it) as well as our own (a developer leaving the team), which forced us to put this specific development on hold. When this happened we openly discussed it in Reiza 51 (the forum room specially conceived for communication with campaign backers), and gave an ample window for backers who had entered the campaign with the specific goal of seeing VR supported to get a refund for their investment.
We now are no longer in “wait and see” mode regarding VR, but openly intent on supporting it already with AMS. We are currently looking for developers to join us for this specific task, but until we do and have had the chance to assess it, it??s impossible to make any reliable estimate as to if and when it will actually come in time for AMS.
VR enthusiasts can rest assured that at this point we need no convincing regarding the relevance of VR for sim racing, however we currently have this unfortunate gap between wanting to do something and getting it done. When we have more news on the topic, we??ll make sure to share with you here.
Automobilista recently reached version 1.0 with the latest release.
