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Four years after Minecraft became available on the Oculus Rift, PSVR owners will finally be able to put on their headphones and get 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 appear sometime 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,” with “nothing removed.” Obviously, you will need the PSVR headphones to play games, but you will be using your Dualshock 4 controller to play games, not the Move controllers.
The post explains that you will have two visual options while playing: living room or immersive modes. She didn’t go into more detail on how these two modes differ, but we’ll update the post 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 to better see any creepers that are stalking you.
#Minecraft #minecraftVR #PlayStationVR … you can lean out and look at the corners 😀 #cool pic.twitter.com/Eyy8rgw4iKSeptember 7, 2020
To build the PSVR version of Minecraft, Mojang worked with independent developer SkyBox Labs, who helped “convert and optimize” the game using the same Minecraft VR technology that Mojang “developed for other virtual reality platforms a few years ago.” This could refer to the Rift version or the Gear VR version.
The Bedrock version of Minecraft released on the PS4 in late 2019, two years after the Xbox One port and one year after the Switch port. Carpenter mentioned in the post that they could only start work on the PSVR version after negotiations with Sony, which was initially hesitant to allow cross-platform play.
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