Space Pirate Trainer is good VR if you want to blast robots out of the sky

Kablam! Kablam! Kablam! I’m tempted to write just that much about Space Pirate Trainer from I-Illusions. It’s a shooter game in virtual reality, and I saw a demo of it this week in Seattle at Valve’s event for the HTC Vive virtual reality headset.

The title is one of a dozen games we saw for the Vive, which debuts in April and represents a major attempt to turn VR into a giant industry. Tech advisor Digi-Capital estimates that VR could be a $30 billion industry by 2020.