Mojang Announces Free Minecraft PSVR Support for September

Mojang Announces Free Minecraft PSVR Support for September
Four years after Minecraft was made available on the Oculus Rift, PSVR owners will finally be able to put on their headsets and take a first-person look at the Nether. Roger Carpenter, Mojang Studios executive producer for Minecraft, announced today on the Playstation blog that an official patch for the PS4 version of Minecraft will be released this month, granting free access to anyone who owns the game. Calling it Minecraft x PlayStation VR, Carpenter explained in the post that this port will be "100% the same Minecraft game that you can play every day," without "taking anything away." Obviously, you'll need the PSVR headset to play the game, but you'll be using your Dualshock 4 controller to play the game, not the Move controllers. The message explains that you will have two visual options while playing the game: live or immersive modes. He didn't go into more detail about the difference between these two modes, but we'll update the article if we learn more. We know from a tweet from Carpenter that Head Tracking is enabled for this port, allowing you to lean into the game for a better overview of everything stalking you.

< p lang="en" dir="ltr">#Minecraft #minecraftVR #PlayStationVR ... can you lean towards the rounded corners ? #cool pic.twitter.com/Eyy8rgw4iKSSeptember 7, 2020 To build the PSVR version of Minecraft, Mojang worked with indie developer SkyBox Labs, who helped "convert and optimize" the game using the same Minecraft VR technology as Mojang." developed for other VR platforms a few years." You can refer to the Rift version or the Gear VR version. The Bedrock version of Minecraft released on PS4 in late 2019, two years after the Xbox One port and a year after the Switch port. Carpenter mentioned in the article that they were only able to start work on the PSVR version after negotiations with Sony, which was reluctant to allow cross-platform play.

Una captura de pantalla de arriba hacia abajo del puerto Minecraft x PlayStation VR en acción.

A top-down screenshot of the Minecraft x PlayStation VR port in action. (Image credit: Mojang Studios)