Why Starbreeze thinks it can compete with Facebook’s Oculus Rift and Valve’s Steam VR

If the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show and the 22 virtual-reality-related companies in attendance did anything last week, they established that virtual reality is about to go big. And at least one of those competitors used that event to announce its entrance into the head-mounted-display battle.

StarVR is the newest high-end head-mounted VR display asking for your attention. It’s from the indie developer-turned-publisher Starbreeze, which is responsible for Payday 2 and The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay. The company acquired the VR startup InfinitEye, which has worked on the hardware since 2011, and it has renamed the company Starbreeze Paris.