Epic’s Unreal Engine virtual reality demo hits Oculus Rift, PS4’s Morpheus, and Vive

Virtual reality is one of the oncoming technical innovations that has the gaming community excited about the future, and game developer and tool creator Epic Games wants to play a big role in that future.

Epic Games released its Showdown VR tech demonstration for free online today for the Oculus Rift development kit, Sony’s PlayStation Morpheus, and the HTC’s and Valve’s Vive. Showdown is a non-interactive cinematic video experience featuring a futuristic gunfight between police officers and a robotic walking tank. This is the same demo that Epic has showed off repeatedly at trade shows like the Game Developer Conference. Analysts are predicting the virtual- and augmented-reality market could grow into a $150-billion business by 2020, and Epic’s Unreal could capture a piece of that by getting studios excited for its technology.