Ubisoft’s VR Plans Take Flight in new Assassin’s Creed Jack the Ripper DLC Trailer

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Ubisoft is embracing VR in a big way. Last week at Sony’s PlayStation Experience, we announced a project from Ubisoft Montreal’s FunHouse called Eagle Flight, our first game developed exclusively for virtual reality that lets you soar over the streets of Paris. Hot on the heels of that reveal, Ubisoft Montpelier released a fully immersive VR trailer for the Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Jack the Ripper DLC. Featuring the infamous namesake of the DLC, the trailer takes you through the gritty streets of Victorian London and into Jack’s grisly world. This trailer is currently available in its full VR form for the Samsung Gear VR platform, but if you don’t have that hardware and still want to get a taste of the experience, you can view it through YouTube and Facebook’s 360 video player.

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Both Eagle Flight and the Jack the Ripper trailer mark the beginning of Ubisoft’s broader plans for VR. “We firmly believe that virtual reality is opening a new frontier in terms of gaming, storytelling and entertainment,” says Olivier Dauba, Editorial Vice President at Ubisoft. “As creators of worlds and experiences it’s important for us to work with new technologies as early as possible to help drive innovation.”

The Jack the Ripper trailer provides insight into how Ubisoft imagines the future of storytelling through the unique immersion VR provides. “Nicolas [Bouchet] and I started working on this as a test to see how we could adapt a trailer to offer a true VR experience,” says Adrian Lacey, Director of IP Development at Ubisoft Montpelier. “Originally we hadn’t planned on releasing it, but the results were so good we had to share it. The Jack the Ripper VR trailer is just a small taste of what virtual reality can bring, both in terms of storytelling and how it can help players go deeper into our worlds.”

There are now five Ubisoft studios working on VR projects, with each looking at how they can harness this exciting technology to create truly original and memorable experiences.

If you want to experience the Jack the Ripper trailer in VR, you have two options:

    1 ) Use a Samsung phone and a Samsung Gear VR device. Dowlnload the ‘OCULUS’ app and go to the 360° video section, where you will be able to download the trailer.

    2) Open the YouTube app on your Android phone, click on the Cardboard icon and watch the video with Google Cardboard.

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For more on Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Jack the Ripper DLC, Eagle Flight, and Ubisoft’s VR plans, check out these stories:

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Jack the Ripper Trailer and Release Date Revealed

Eagle Flight Announced as Full VR Game for PC, PS4

Ubisoft leaps into VR at E3 2015

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