E3 2015: Ubisoft planning ambitious social virtual reality experiences

The games developer and publisher is showing three VR prototypes at E3, and its subsidiary Red Storm studio is working on a shared virtual environment

Ubisoft has thrown its hat into the virtual reality ring. The publisher behind multimillion-selling game franchises Assassin's Creed, Far Cry and Ghost Recon is working on ambitious VR projects, it has revealed.

At a pre-briefing before the E3 games conference in Los Angeles, David Votypka, the creative director of Ubisoft-owned developer Red Storm, announced that there are several prototypes being developed in various studios around the company. Votypka who studied virtual reality technology at university before working on formative VR projects in the 1990s told attendees: "VR is back, and it's back for real. We've been exploring, figuring out what works and what doesn't. We have now have three prototypes at E3 from studios within Ubisoft".