Eve dogfighter Valkyrie doesn't need Oculus Rift to play

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CCP's sexy little Oculus Rift dogfighting game Eve: Valkyrie can be played without a virtual reality headset. People play it that way at the company's Icelandic HQ, CEO Hilmar Petersson told me - because there are only a few headsets to go around. "So I mean it is possible," he said.
It's also possible that Valkyrie could launch as a game that works both with and without VR. "It could be a game like that, absolutely," he nodded. And that theoretically opens it up to platforms other than Oculus Rift and PC - platforms like next-gen consoles (some of which are plotting their own VR headsets). "We could do that, yes," he smiled. "That is a technical possibility." Valkyrie's kind of quick-thrill multiplayer would work well there.
Nevertheless, it's all rather early to be saying anything definitively one way or another, as Petersson kept reminding me. The game isn't due out until sometime next year, presumably around the time the consumer version of Oculus Rift gets into shops. And it's that VR experience that's "the core" of what Valkyrie is trying to achieve.
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