Forget About Virtual Reality, Into the Dead: Crimson Heights is Hyper Reality | IGN Live

VR gaming has been astir for years astatine this point, and successful that clip determination person been hundreds of fearfulness games. But Into the Dead: Crimson Heights, revealed astatine IGN Live, claims to beryllium the archetypal hyper reality fearfulness game.

This is the 4th Into the Dead game, aft a mates of mobile games and a side-scrolling spinoff backmost successful 2025, Our Darkest Days. But this is the archetypal clip the nascent franchise volition beryllium coming to VR, oregon alternatively 'hyper reality'.

What seems to seperate HR from VR present is the Meta Quest 3's quality to scan your surroundings, utilizing a camera successful the visor. In the trailer, it looks similar the crippled satellite is being painted connected apical of the player's home, with objects similar desks and couches repainted to marque it look similar they beryllium successful the world.

It's a chill idea, to beryllium sure, but I can't assistance but wonderment conscionable however close the Meta Quest's sensors really are. While I'd emotion to crook my flat into a zombie apocalyptic playground, I conscionable cognize there'd beryllium an errant ligament determination that'd pb to maine falling straight connected my face. But, hey, that has to beryllium thing that the developer, PikPok, has taken into consideration, truthful possibly radical volition beryllium capable to debar catastrophic falls successful existent life, portion warring zombies successful hyper reality.

If you privation to spot what a 'hyper reality' crippled is like, Into the Dead: Crimson Heights volition beryllium disposable connected the Meta Store sometime successful 2027. Until then, you'll conscionable person to support making bash with regular, non-hyper reality.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra