The many "Best VR Games" articles that feature Elite Dangerous - reminding FDev of what they've achieved (and should continue)

[StuartGT]

There have been quite a few gaming news outlets including Elite in their "Best VR Games" lists for many years now:

Best VR games 2025 - top virtual reality experiences to play on your headset

Get your headset on and step into the best VR games

www.techradar.com

The best VR games to play in 2025

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www.vg247.com

The 12 Best PC Virtual Reality Games

So you just bought a new PC VR system. Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, whichever. You’ve plugged it in, adjusted the cameras, cleared out some room, and you’re ready to play some games. Which are the best?

kotaku.com

10 of the Best Oculus Rift Games - IGN

We've scoured the Oculus Rift library, and put together a list of what we think are some of the best games you'll find.

www.ign.com

Best VR games on PC 2024

Here are the best VR games on PC, from transformative updates to older releases to new titles built from ground up for virtual reality.

www.pcgamesn.com

The best VR games on PC

The best VR games for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Valve Index.

www.pcgamer.com

The best HTC Vive games for 2022 | Digital Trends

So you’re considering buying an HTC Vive, but don't know what to play? Our list of the best HTC Vive games will help you.

www.digitaltrends.com

The best VR games on PC

VR offers a new level of immersion in PC gaming, but which VR games are really a must-play? We have the best of the best right here.

www.pcinvasion.com

The best VR games 2018: The games that make the most of your Oculus Rift, HTC Vive or PlayStation VR

If you've picked up one of the best VR headsets around and now want a game to play on it, you might find yourself spoilt for choice. That's because for

www.alphr.com

The best virtual reality games for the HTC Vive

www.telegraph.co.uk

https://www.trustedreviews.com/best/best-vr-games-3605173

The Best VR Games for PC in 2018 | bit-tech.net

Rick runs down some of the best currently available VR experiences.

bit-tech.net

VR Games With Some Meat On Their Bones

There may not be many AAA VR games available, but that doesn't mean you can't find games that you can sink some time into. Here's a list of games that you can keep going back to.

www.tomshardware.com

Best VR games: Make the most of your VR headset with these great titles | Expert Reviews

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www.windowscentral.com

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interestingengineering.com

Best PCVR games 2024: The top VR titles to play on PC

Here's our pick of all the best games you can play on your PC-tethered VR headset.

www.pocket-lint.com

These Five VR Games Will Make You Forget Your Quarantine Woes - Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Technology Latest News

The year 2020 has been dominated by the onslaught of the novel coronavirus on the world. Explore Five VR Games Will Make You Forget Your Quarantine

www.affinityvr.com

The 15 best HTC Vive games you can download right now

Add these games to your HTC Vive for the ultimate in VR gaming

www.stuff.tv

In Pictures: The best Oculus Rift virtual reality games, demos, and experiences

Cruise the solar system. Ride a rollercoaster. Try a Minecraft mod. If you've got a fancy Oculus VR headsets, these are the games and demos you want to play.

www.arnnet.com.au

Quoting my thoughts on the Odyssey VR news again for posterity, as I'd like to see VR support added to Odyssey post-launch asap:

Cheers for the answers, Tim.
"For launch" implies further information. Is VR support being developed for an Odyssey-update post-launch?
VR is a major feature for Elite - it's widely regarded as one of the best VR games available - so axing VR support from future expansions would be extremely unwise imo. VR would be unfortunately be added to the perceived ever-growing-pile of abandoned features.
As Horizons will still support VR, what happens when one wants to play in VR: logout of Odyssey then login to Horizons?
Considering the enormous goodwill and enthusiasm yesterday's announcement brought it'd be very disappointing to apply the handbrake. 2 steps forward, 1 step back etc. Killing the golden goose is counter productive.
If production is tight with the Elite devteam being fully utilised already, then this is a good reason as any for FDev top-brass to expand the devteam further.

Some potential good news obtained by UploadVR however:

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Won't Have VR Support 'For Launch'

The huge Odyssey expansion for Elite Dangerous coming in early 2021 won’t be VR-compatible “for launch.” UploadVR confirmed with Frontier Developments the planet-based addition to its popular cockpit-based space game won’t have VR compatibility, at least initially. “We’re big fans of VR and...

uploadvr.com

In a follow up email we confirmed that VR support is still an open possibility sometime after launch, “with no defined date,” according to the company.​

​

Perhaps VR isn't a complete write-off for Odyssey and it is just a devtime/staffing problem?

 

[askavir]

Hopefully VR will still work at launch at least on ship/srvs, and perhaps someday FD can implement full support.

I don't use VR myself but I do sympathize with our box-head friends.

 

[VR Golgot]

Some potential good news obtained by UploadVR however:

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Won't Have VR Support 'For Launch'

The huge Odyssey expansion for Elite Dangerous coming in early 2021 won’t be VR-compatible “for launch.” UploadVR confirmed with Frontier Developments the planet-based addition to its popular cockpit-based space game won’t have VR compatibility, at least initially. “We’re big fans of VR and...

uploadvr.com

In a follow up email we confirmed that VR support is still an open possibility sometime after launch, “with no defined date,” according to the company.Perhaps VR isn't a complete write-off for Odyssey and it is just a devtime/staffing problem?

Yep there's similar glimmers of possible post-launch support in today's twitch stream.

I'd be wary of reading too much into it, it was some quick phrasing from Stephen while dealing with an angry mob & streaming the game . But it does seem to mirror what UploadVR have been told there:

[29m35s]

29:21

eliasdanger
:i was just saying on malics stream, i dont know if can even keep playing now knowing there will be no future vr support. what the heck am i working for?

So again, I mean, this is just the beginning right now. We've explained the reason why it won't be there on launch. Obviously especially with VR it's a very difficult... you have to get it really right, because people can get motion sickness and everything else, and all this other stuff. So it may not be there on launch. And we hope that it doesn't upset anybody, we do apologise.

Here's everything else they said regarding VR:

Spoiler: VR comments from the Thursday Stream

[10m37s]

So for you guys asking about VR, we did put a couple of clarifications on the forums for you, but I'm more than happy to share it here as well. So VR is not going to be compatible with Odyssey at launch, but it will stay compatible with the base game and with Horizons. So that's all that we've got to share at the moment regarding VR. But anything that you've been saying, we've heard your feedback, and we've got it all collected. That's just really all we can say for now on that one.

[20m55s]

20:02
Myr_The_Butt
FrontierDevelopments Malic vr is freaking out on his channel cause he thinks there is gonna be NO vr in oddesey can you clearify that he seems like his blood pressure is high

I can see that some people say that Malic is a bit upset, now we hope that any information that Malic is doing ok. I'm sure he'll be fine. We'll make sure that we reach out to him.

Yeah we'll have a chat with him

[30m36s]

VR will still be compatible with the base game and Horizons.

[41m00s]

40:38
myarch
:I understand that you cannot answer the more specific questions regarding Odyssey and VR right now but just to resister my voice to the issue, please liaise with the devs and get back to us asap. MANY of us are confused at best/hugely disappointed at worst riight now

To answer your question myarch, we have of course seen all of the feedback, and that's why we wanted to make sure that we were sharing what we could, as soon as we could, regarding VR.

And it is something that of course we're in contact with the team all the time. So as soon as we're able to share more information and we have more to share with you about those kind of specifics then naturally that's what we're going to do.

 

[Marklar_]

ED was a pioneer with VR. It kills me that they are turning their back on it.

 

[VR andysonofbob]

Fab post

Please don't lock!

 

[VR Jay Le Chardon]

@StuartGT YOu've excelled yourself with your research there sir! +1

ED was a pioneer with VR. It kills me that they are turning their back on it.

David Braben, "I think we were probably the first people to support VR when in December 2013 we added VR to our Alpha build of Dlite Dangerous"

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NIJ2VVLIxk

The mods have the ability to lock it still, but now there are replies, as far as I am aware, they cannot delete it, all we need to do is to keep posting links to it.

 

[Aashenfox]

I'm still not completely clear, if I install odyssey, no more vr in my ship? Or only no vr in fps mode? Or if I want to keep vr enabled ship and srv, I should NOT get Odyssey and keep playing horizons?

If the act of installing odyssey disables vr for the main game of spaceships, I fear FD has made a grave error, and I don't even play in vr (I do have a rift, I just prefer elite on a monitor) that will materially affect sales of the expansion. Vr users will not buy it, and may quit altogether in disgust.

VR using LEP holders are going to be feeling very betrayed as they've already bought it.

 

[Viajero]

Some potential good news obtained by UploadVR however:

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Won't Have VR Support 'For Launch'

The huge Odyssey expansion for Elite Dangerous coming in early 2021 won’t be VR-compatible “for launch.” UploadVR confirmed with Frontier Developments the planet-based addition to its popular cockpit-based space game won’t have VR compatibility, at least initially. “We’re big fans of VR and...

uploadvr.com

In a follow up email we confirmed that VR support is still an open possibility sometime after launch, “with no defined date,” according to the company.​

​

Perhaps VR isn't a complete write-off for Odyssey and it is just a devtime/staffing problem?

Thanks for that. A bit more hopeful news in that Upload VR article reporting on an email exchange with FDEV. The limitation may also be obviously technical/performance related, not just staff or dev time.

 

[Cpt.Badger]

This topic needs to not die. VR should be supported at launch.

If it's not possible, we need a DEFINITE answer on the plan for VR support. If we have to wait 6 months? FINE. 1 year? STILL FINE.

But going "no information as of yet" is simply unnaceptable. This isn't rocket science.

 

[Speedcuffs]

Great thread!

 

[Faded Glory]

In a follow up email we confirmed that VR support is still an open possibility sometime after launch, “with no defined date,” according to the company.

​

Perhaps VR isn't a complete write-off for Odyssey and it is just a devtime/staffing problem?

No ETA's, no promises.

Nice of you to post this Stuart, but I won't be holding my breath for VR support going forward in this game. I really hope I'm wrong, I'm a VR player (and ED is the only game I play in VR, so I'm not really a fanatic) with zero interest in playing again on a flat screen. But I don't believe that VR players are a market that FD are truly interested in any more.

 

[Marklar_]

I'm still not completely clear, if I install odyssey, no more vr in my ship? Or only no vr in fps mode? Or if I want to keep vr enabled ship and srv, I should NOT get Odyssey and keep playing horizons?

If the act of installing odyssey disables vr for the main game of spaceships, I fear FD has made a grave error, and I don't even play in vr (I do have a rift, I just prefer elite on a monitor) that will materially affect sales of the expansion. Vr users will not buy it, and may quit altogether in disgust.

VR using LEP holders are going to be feeling very betrayed as they've already bought it.

We don't know yet, all we know is that Odyssey will not support VR at launch but previous versions (Horizons, Vanilla) will continue with VR capability, if not support.

 

[Cpt.Badger]

No ETA's, no promises.

This literally translates to "we don't have anybody working on this, nor do we even have plans to assign anybody to this, just buy it you suckers."

 

[Aashenfox]

We don't know yet, all we know is that Odyssey will not support VR at launch but previous versions (Horizons, Vanilla) will continue with VR capability, if not support.

Yeh but like I say, what does that actually mean? If I install Odyssey, will I no longer be able to fly in VR at all? Or do the new Odyssey features not support VR? Naturally, I'm assuming the former, unfortunately, cos it makes more sense from a compatibility standpoint, but if so, wow.

 

[Marklar_]

Yeh but like I say, what does that actually mean? If I install Odyssey, will I no longer be able to fly in VR at all? Or do the new Odyssey features not support VR? Naturally, I'm assuming the former, unfortunately, cos it makes more sense from a compatibility standpoint, but if so, wow.

I'd like to think that Odyssey would allow us to have the VR experience in the cockpit, but don't get your hopes up. I suspect that launching Odyssey means no VR at all.

So I expect I'll become a Horizons hobo until I get tired of it.

 

[Faded Glory]

Yeh but like I say, what does that actually mean? If I install Odyssey, will I no longer be able to fly in VR at all? Or do the new Odyssey features not support VR? Naturally, I'm assuming the former, unfortunately, cos it makes more sense from a compatibility standpoint, but if so, wow.

I'm assuming that if you launch the Odyssey version of the game then there's no VR (so any new planets will not be VR compatible) but if you launch the game through Horizons then you'll be able to play in VR as we do now.

Would be nice if they could make the flying and SRV'ing in Odyssey VR compatible, but it doesn't seem from what's being said (have a look at the upload.vr link in the OP) like it's going to happen.

 

[Xammux]

No VR support at launch. Won't be purchasing. It kills me they aren't supporting VR right away. It also kills me they're going the space-legs route vs adding more ships, more things to do in ships, more star ports, different bases, addition SRVs, and just generally adding to what everyone loves about Elite Dangerous versus turning it into Star Citizen / No Mans Sky

 

[deadreak]

+1 support for this thread from me. I am super new player and got ED after beating Alyx, friend told me it is amazing in VR. So it goes, really amazing game and since I started playing with VR I just can not imagine switching to flat screen (I did it couple of times for grinding mats but it just not immersive or as interesting).

Game dev myself, so I know sometimes strong voices do change people's minds on a team, so hopefully Frontier will reconsider.

 

[Mr_Foxhound]

There have been quite a few gaming news outlets including Elite in their "Best VR Games" lists for many years now:

Best VR games 2025 - top virtual reality experiences to play on your headset

Get your headset on and step into the best VR games

www.techradar.com

The best VR games to play in 2025

Virtual Reality is becoming more and more popular, so what should you try playing? Here's our suggestions of some of the best VR games of all time.

www.vg247.com

The 12 Best PC Virtual Reality Games

So you just bought a new PC VR system. Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, whichever. You’ve plugged it in, adjusted the cameras, cleared out some room, and you’re ready to play some games. Which are the best?

kotaku.com

10 of the Best Oculus Rift Games - IGN

We've scoured the Oculus Rift library, and put together a list of what we think are some of the best games you'll find.

www.ign.com

Best VR games on PC 2024

Here are the best VR games on PC, from transformative updates to older releases to new titles built from ground up for virtual reality.

www.pcgamesn.com

The best VR games on PC

The best VR games for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Valve Index.

www.pcgamer.com

The best HTC Vive games for 2022 | Digital Trends

So you’re considering buying an HTC Vive, but don't know what to play? Our list of the best HTC Vive games will help you.

www.digitaltrends.com

The best VR games on PC

VR offers a new level of immersion in PC gaming, but which VR games are really a must-play? We have the best of the best right here.

www.pcinvasion.com

The best VR games 2018: The games that make the most of your Oculus Rift, HTC Vive or PlayStation VR

If you've picked up one of the best VR headsets around and now want a game to play on it, you might find yourself spoilt for choice. That's because for

www.alphr.com

The best virtual reality games for the HTC Vive

www.telegraph.co.uk

https://www.trustedreviews.com/best/best-vr-games-3605173

The Best VR Games for PC in 2018 | bit-tech.net

Rick runs down some of the best currently available VR experiences.

bit-tech.net

VR Games With Some Meat On Their Bones

There may not be many AAA VR games available, but that doesn't mean you can't find games that you can sink some time into. Here's a list of games that you can keep going back to.

www.tomshardware.com

Best VR games: Make the most of your VR headset with these great titles | Expert Reviews

Just bought an Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, Gear VR or a Daydream headset? These are the games you need to play

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11 Really Rather Good VR Games You Might Want to Buy

Are you a gamer? Do you like vr adventure games such as moss, batman arkham and no man's sky vr? Then check out these 11 great VR games.

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Best PCVR games 2024: The top VR titles to play on PC

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www.pocket-lint.com

These Five VR Games Will Make You Forget Your Quarantine Woes - Virtual Reality Augmented Reality Technology Latest News

The year 2020 has been dominated by the onslaught of the novel coronavirus on the world. Explore Five VR Games Will Make You Forget Your Quarantine

www.affinityvr.com

The 15 best HTC Vive games you can download right now

Add these games to your HTC Vive for the ultimate in VR gaming

www.stuff.tv

In Pictures: The best Oculus Rift virtual reality games, demos, and experiences

Cruise the solar system. Ride a rollercoaster. Try a Minecraft mod. If you've got a fancy Oculus VR headsets, these are the games and demos you want to play.

www.arnnet.com.au

Quoting my thoughts on the Odyssey VR news again for posterity, as I'd like to see VR support added to Odyssey post-launch asap:



Some potential good news obtained by UploadVR however:

Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Won't Have VR Support 'For Launch'

The huge Odyssey expansion for Elite Dangerous coming in early 2021 won’t be VR-compatible “for launch.” UploadVR confirmed with Frontier Developments the planet-based addition to its popular cockpit-based space game won’t have VR compatibility, at least initially. “We’re big fans of VR and...

uploadvr.com

In a follow up email we confirmed that VR support is still an open possibility sometime after launch, “with no defined date,” according to the company.​

​

Perhaps VR isn't a complete write-off for Odyssey and it is just a devtime/staffing problem?

all this sounds like damage control

 

[darkzide]

I'm not a very vocal person in regards the the game mostly because I enjoy it so much but no VR support would kill the game for me and many others. If they want to grab that sweet sweet console money by making a FPS... Fine, I get it. But just make a new space shooty shooty game and call it "Space Shooty 3000" and keep developing the Elite story as it is.