Oculus VR has a fun game on its hands with Dead & Buried, a wild west game where you engage in a saloon gunfight in virtual reality.
The friendly ghost in Dead & Buried.
I tried a demo of the Oculus Studios exclusive at an event at the Game Developers Conference this week in San Francisco. It was one of the best shooting experiences I’ve seen so far in VR, which is expected to be a $30 billion market by 2020, according to tech advisor Digi-Capital. Based on this game, I think that shooters will be some of the best experiences in VR.
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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.
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