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Play Minecraft in VR next week when Windows 10 build adds Oculus Rift support

Minecraft and virtual reality: the greatest love story of our times, probably.

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Their families tried to keep them apart, but nothing can stand between Minecraft and VR.

Oculus Rift support will be added to the Windows 10 build of Minecraft next week, according to a tweet from Mojang's Tommaso Checchi. It had been expected in build 0.15.6, but seems to have been accelerated.

Announced in September 2015, Minecraft's Oculus Rift support is the result of a collaboration between Microsoft-owned Mojang and Oculus itself, including chief technical officer John "Probably A Wizard From Space" Carmack. It follows on from Gear VR support.

As a first person game with simple controls, Minecraft certainly has synergy with virtual reality's strengths. I'm still more interested in VR or AR games where you can sit down and play with blocks without having to clean them up, but hey: different horses for different courses.

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Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.

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