The IndieBeat: VR innovation bubbles at IndieCade’s E3 booth

Virtual reality didn’t get much love at the press conferences before the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo kicked off, but it fared better on the show floor. Sony had PlayStation VR demos set up, and when I went to the IndieCade booth, more than a quarter of the 24 games on display were VR.

According to IndieCade’s festival director, Samuel Roberts, VR submissions were up about 33 percent this year from 2017. He describes the developers of these projects as mainly young people who don’t come from “traditional game backgrounds” and who drew inspiration from the renewed excitement around VR from when the Oculus Rift came out in 2016.