IRIS VR, the studio behind TECHNOLUST (2016), introduced that its long-awaited open world cyberpunk journey LOW-FI is slated to launch someday this yr on PlayStation 5, PSVR 2, and PC VR headsets by way of Steam and the Meta PC platform.
Replace (March tenth, 2023): It’s been practically two years since IRIS VR introduced a PS5 model was coming, which initially was set to reach someday in 2021. Now studio head Blair Renaud says in a tweet that LOW-FI is formally coming to PS5 and PSVR 2 this yr. You possibly can wishlist it on the PlayStation Retailer right here.
The nonetheless in-development recreation has been out there for buy on PC and PC VR headsets for a while by way of the sport’s itch.io, nevertheless Renaud additionally says we should always count on to see it on Steam and the Meta PC platform in 2023 as properly. You possibly can wishlist it on Steam right here.
In the event you haven’t adopted together with the venture, right here’s an outline courtesy of IRIS VR:
Because the participant, you might be “low-fi”, the road identify given to those that can’t merge with the platform, a ubiquitous digital actuality simulation the place a lot of the inhabitants now stay their lives. You’re a police officer and have been transferred to a very crime ridden part of city-block 303. The one inhabitants of notice in your jurisdiction are different low-fi, and the human intelligence (or decrease) synthetic life varieties who’ve remained among the many residents after the AI singularity.
The unique article asserting LOW-FI’s PS5 availability follows beneath. We’ve additionally included the newest trailer beneath this replace:
Authentic Article (June twelfth, 2020): A profitable Kickstarter marketing campaign late final yr helped get LOW-FI off the bottom, having garnered IRIS VR over $80,000 USD. On the time, it was pitched as a VR-native recreation deliberately constructed from the ground-up for PC VR headsets and “next-gen PSVR.”
The sport’s developer, Blair Renaud, says that anybody can pre-order the PC model now, which supplies you early entry on SteamVR headsets. On the time of this writing the pre-release PC VR model prices $35 USD.
And it’s definitely an bold endeavor, boasting an enormous, non-linear open world, “a whole lot” of crimes and tales to unravel and discover, branching narratives, and dialogue from what the studio says might be “photo-realistic NPCs.”
Whereas the sport’s creator appears pretty sure of LOW-FI’s 2021 launch window (see replace), Sony hasn’t truly launched phrase on when a next-gen follow-up to the PSVR is ready to reach.
We do nevertheless know that the present PSVR might be suitable with PS5 when the console launches vacation 2020, so upcoming VR releases for PS5 don’t essentially point out any implied timeframe for a potential PSVR 2.