The laser beams definitely help you aim in VR.
The laser beams definitely help you aim in VR.
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Firewall: Zero Hour tests how well you can target your enemy in VR

First Contact Entertainment is putting the finishing touches on its virtual reality first-person shooter, Firewall: Zero Hour. It pits four human players against four other humans in multiplayer first-person shooter matches through PlayStation VR. Coming later this year, the game can be played with a PSVR Aim controller or a standard gamepad.

I gave it a try at a hands-on session and found the experience was just like playing Rainbow Six: Siege. I couldn’t hit anything. Aiming in VR has proven to be quite difficult, and the PSVR Aim controller certainly helped. But getting good at it means that you have to unlearn what you’ve learned over the years with a 19-button controller on a 2D screen.

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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.