Earlier today Oculus announced the winners of its VR Game Jam, in which the VR headset manufacturer tasked indies to create Oculus titles - or at least prototypes - to show off at this year's IndieCade Selection. Entrants were split into two categories: Open Call and Selected Developers. The former was open to anyone, while the latter was reserved for previous IndieCade developers.The grand prize in each category will receive $10,000, Oculus footing the bill to send the developer to IndieCade, an invitation to meet the Oculus team at its headquarters, and Oculus will promote the winners.
The big winner in the Selected Developers category was Lau Korsgaard's trippy hacking game Virtual Internet Hacker. Korsgaard, as you may recall, was one of the lead designers on Spin the Bottle: Bumpie's Party. His latest Oculus curio allows players to move through a real website as its graphics and page layouts are stretched out in a honeycomb-like formation.
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