Oculus Sell-outs Saga: Unprecedented Chuck E. Cheese content

The Oculus Rift VR headset is being integrated into Chuck E. Cheese family entertainment centers this month.

The Rift will be used for a game called Chuck E. Cheese's Virtual Ticket Blaster Experience where kids grab as many tickets as they can in 360 degrees. Tickets can be exchanged for prizes.

Roger Cardinale, president of parent company CEC Entertainment, says: "Kids today have unprecedented access to game consoles and tablets. Our challenge is to deliver an experience not available at home, and there is no doubt virtual reality does just that. Oculus Rift technology is the next frontier in the gaming industry, and we're thrilled to be able to say it's part of the Chuck E. Cheese's lineup."

Oculus Rift will be tested in the Dallas, San Diego, and Orlando markets this month.
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The only true, untainted VR experience is Project Morpheus. Poor hermits.

shit i can't hang around in this thread.

cheese it.

This may seem like a dumb question but what exactly is a Chuck E. Cheese family entertainment center?

A really smelly arcade?

Seriously, what's all this noise about "poor Hermits"?

it is THE place for enjoyment of the culinary arts in america.

sophistication, manners, ettiquette - bring those with you to chuck e camembert.

System wars hates children!

Sell outs!

Looks like Sony lost out to Facebook for that Pizza Money. Too bad because they need all the cash they can get these days.

The thing they championed as underdogs in gaming is turning into fastfood promotions.

PS4s at Taco Bell was WAT exactly?

What a joke topic.. Rift was meant for this type of crap for the start.. It will help them gain support and make it better

How the hell is that exactly selling out? The thing is just a VR headset. It can be used in any way people want it. This is just one of its many uses. Expect to see it in a lot of arcades and whatnot in the future. It's cheap and excellent VR.

Are we really going full hipster with this thing?

I'm sorry but this is just ridiculous.

"Oculus is fine guys, Facebook is for the hardcore gamers"

I'm not sure I even want to know what they serve there, but I'd love to see what the famility entertainment center part entails.

I am not sure how you can consider this a sell out. The company bought the product.

It's a big pizza place and arcade for kids. Sometimes they have indoor playground equipment and whatnot. It's a national chain.

Basically they are buying some Oculus Rifts to hook up to some arcade games.

I guess that makes it a rather smart marketing move. It's probably going to expose the Rift to an otherwise untapped market.

Sold out? Were the guys at Oculus supposed to sue Chuck e-Cheese and DEMAND that under no circumstance could CeC be allowed to buy and use a Rift within the premises of any CeC store?

I don´t think you fully grasp the concept of selling out,especially in this context.

So Sony sold out to Taco Bell by having demo units at their restaurants?

Well, this thing was always pretty cool at arcades

how exactly is this selling out?

@PhazonBlazer said:

Well, this thing was always pretty cool at arcades

i have to agree.

i always put on a suit to go to the video game arcade.

@CrownKingArthur said:

@PhazonBlazer said:

Well, this thing was always pretty cool at arcades

i have to agree.

i always put on a suit to go to the video game arcade.

Gaming is serious business.

Oh no a device designed for many different applications outside of gaming is doing just that? Shocker!

Morpheus being Playstation games only is going to kill that device. The Rift would have died too if it was games only

Don't talk too crazy now. PS4 is selling faster than the PS2 and the Wii. Morpheus will likely be just fine.

Won't make a difference. Making the device for games only is what will cripple it,especially when it's just for one system. Like I said the same thing would have happened to the Rift too.

Many many gamers have shown their disinterest in VR in general and a lot think it's a gimmick or don't care. Gaming is what has started the VR revolution and cemented it but it's other areas that will shoot VR forward more, just wait till the pr0n industry gets a hold of it (actually already happening)

Not only that but not all games work with VR. Sure millions of PS4s have been sold but there's not many games on it suited for VR. The only games that work with it are gimmicky games made to show it off, First person games and cockpit games like planes and cars. Any third person game will make you feel very disoriented or sick while using it because you're controlling a camera with your head instead of controlling an actual head. On top of that they're not devices suited for extended play sessions due to sickness and eye fatigue. gamers like tradition more (screens and controllers)

It's not even really the same. This seems to be CeC just buying Rifts and using them at their stores. With that, Sony actually partnered with Taco Bell.

The more this develops, the happier I am I didn't support them with my wallet

Facebook buying them is one of the best things they could have hoped for. It's opened up FAR more avenues already than they ever could have on their own

Why exactly?

because they aren't just focusing PC/Console gaming?

The term sell out lost all meaning twenty years ago when artists valued integrity over money. That simply doesn't exist anymore. Everyone is a sell out.

Three words for that:

Playstation Home revamp.

Why is that?

@lamprey263: i just wanted to use the phrase 'cheese it'.

cool avy and sig btw.

edit: i haven't seen the hangover but galifinakis is a pretty funny d00d.

Can't wait for Morpheus to turn out just like Move.

Also, why not just make everything first person in regards to VR? I know I can't stand FP when I play games but FP in VR would be amazing. :D

Won't somebody think of the children?

Yup and Sony sold out to Taco Bell and MS sold out to Mountain Dew... You should probably learn to seperate "sold out" from "promotion"

This is good news. Our youth will grow up with it and come up with ideas to make it better.

You dont have to wait for PS4 to dominate like PS2. Or kinect 2 to turn out like Kinect 1. TLHBO

Way to be 12.

On topic: See, I read this earlier today and my first thought was, "Cool! If this works out, I'll finally have a way to try one of these things out!"

It's a gaming device. If it works out, you're gonna see them everywhere games are played.

@xhawk27: The total destruction of Microsoft's vision for Xflop One has left your butt EXTREMELY sore.

The console market will never resemble the PS2 era ever again. The PC's popularity is growing exponentially, while console interest is dwindling, especially compared to mobile gaming.

While there was a large install base of Wii, PS3 and 360 consoles last gen, attachment rates were in the 2-5% range (the average, "sold well" type of game sold 1-2 million copies). PS1/N64 era attachment rates were anywhere from 10-35% (Mario 64 sold over 10 million copies, and only 32 million N64's were ever sold).

Looking at the sales of the PS4 especially, given how few games there are, I bet attachment rates for PS4/Bone/U will drop to 1-2% over the next couple years, or even less for most games that aren't first-party. That will be devastating to developers, especially when budgets are only increasing at this point. Pushing them either onto PC, or into the handheld/mobile markets.

Sony is floundering financially, and the faith of it's fanboys aren't going to save them if they can't start pushing more software out the door.

@seanmcloughlin: You have some secret info on exactly what Sony plans to do with Morpheus? I'm pretty sure I have already read about possible non-gaming applications.

Possible but not likely. Tell me, how many platforms has the Playstation division ever supported outside of Playstation for anything ever?

@Wasdie: Well they are obviously thinking about support non-Playstation devices with PlayStation now. I think it is being integrated into some Bravia TVs already. That in itself isn't exactly a big jump, but I think Sony is thinking outside of just their consoles now.

I'm not sure the people who originally backed OR on Kickstarter had Chucky Cheese integration in mind but I could be wrong.