Epic Games debuts documentary series to help you understand virtual reality

Over the next few years, virtual reality is going to try to prove that it is a viable platform for gaming and industry, and publisher Epic Games is doing its part to ensure that the immersive new medium catches on.

Epic, which is best known for producing shooters like Unreal Tournament and Gears of Wars, released the first entry in a new YouTube documentary series about VR. Called Sense of Presence, these minifilms will attempt to explain that magic of VR, which is an experience that is hard to translate into speech or text. But these kinds of videos may do a fine job getting people interested in the technology while it’s still impossible to put everyone into head-mounted display unit like the Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. Analysts predict that the virtual- and augmented-reality markets will grow to $150 billion by 2020, but that’s not going to happen magically — it’s going to happen with companies like Epic taking the lead.