Marvel Powers United VR: Hands-on with the superhero VR app on the Oculus Rift

Disney showed a glimpse of Marvel’s first virtual reality game over the weekend, showing three of a dozen superheroes who will be available in the game. And now we’ve been able to get our hands on the game, Marvel Powers United VR, on the Oculus Rift.

This is the kind of brand and experience that VR needs in order to meet expectations that it will be a $25 billion market by 2020. In the game, we were able to play hands-on with four characters: the Incredible Hulk, Captain Marvel, Rocket Raccoon, and Deadpool (which Oculus is revealing ahead of its demos at the San Diego Comic-Con event this week).

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.