Meta’s VR battle royale adds Fortnite-like level building tools
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#66V6T)
Population: One's new Sandbox mode will be available on Wednesday. | Image: Meta Population: One, Meta's VR battle royale title, is opening up its new Sandbox mode in early access to all players on Wednesday, allowing them to make their own levels with custom rules. With the new mode, developer BigBox VR follows in the footsteps of big multiplayer games like Epic Games' Fortnite and Microsoft's Minecraft in giving players tools to create their own 3D environments, but with Population: One, you'll be able to do it in VR.
I got to try Sandbox mode myself last week, and I was impressed with the tools at my fingertips. While building, you'll be able to pick from a big catalog of objects and structures to place around your level. And there are a lot of ways you can manipulate those pieces, like scaling them up and down or...