Werewolves Within is Ultimate Werewolf in virtual reality — and it’s social, too (update)

Virtual reality so far has looked like a solitary experience. Ubisoft wants to show that it can be as social as sitting around a table and playing a board game with your closest friends — even if your fellow players are halfway across the world.

Last night, Ubisoft showed off Werewolves Within, a virtual reality game from its Red Storm Entertainment studio in North Carolina. Werewolves Within is a riff on party games like Werewolf and Mafia, where one (or more) players are the bad guys, and the rest must ferret out who’s out to kill them — and if people are telling the truth or lying about their roles. It riotous fun, but more importantly, it shows off how VR can be more than a solo experience. This is key to helping augmented and virtual reality gaming reach what tech adviser Digi-Capital estimates will be $10 billion market by 2020.