Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney on building Bullet Train and the future of virtual reality

Bullet Train was one of the stars at last week’s Oculus Connect conference in Hollywood. Being able to use your hands in virtual reality in a first-person shooter felt incredibly natural. According to developer Epic Games, this was exactly the experience it was aiming for.

Known for creating highly influential games like Gears of War and Unreal Tournament, Epic has been working with the Facebook-owned Oculus VR for a few years now. At last year’s Connect, it unveiled its Showdown demo for Crescent Bay, a prototype of the Oculus Rift VR headset. Like Bullet Train, Showdown also had a cool slow-motion effect with a lot of guns and a giant robot.