Hilmar Veigar Pétursson and CCP are big fans of VR.
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Eve Online studio chief Hilmar Veigar Pétursson leads the true believers in virtual reality

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, the chief executive of CCP Games in Iceland, was the first developer to show off a new game at the Oculus VR event on Thursday in San Francisco. His team has been “all in” on virtual reality for a long time. They created Eve: Valkyrie, a sci-fi space combat game set in the virtual universe of CCP’s Eve Online.

“We’ve been blurring the lines between what is real and virtual,” Pétursson said. “Our company vision is to create virtual worlds more meaningful than real life.”

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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.