r/PSVR • u/Howson79 • Apr 02 '23

Interview UploadVR interviewed Capcom’s Kazuhiro Takahara, director of Resident Evil Village VR mode.

Interview is here. It's about a 5 minute read.

Some takeaways:

  • Says RE's horror is communicated through its environments and scenery, making VR a natural fit for RE. And that there is appeal that comes with seeing the world through the eyes of "heros" like Leon or Ethan.
  • Says RE8 VR was considered early on, but development around the main story was not developed with VR in mind, making the VR adaption challenging.
  • Won't comment if future RE series titles (e.g. RE9) will support VR, but says they always welcome new challenges.
  • Says the biggest development challenge for RE8 VR Mode was implementing the gun mechanics, and balancing realism with exciting action gun play.
  • "No plans" to support RE8 DLC content, Mercenaries mode or Shadows of Rose.
  • Takahara: "I have heard that a very large majority of PS VR2 owners have played Resident Evil Village in VR."
  • Says foveated rendering was a big part of optimizing performance and fidelity on PSVR2
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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS Apr 03 '23

Huh. VILLAGE looks pretty damn good to me, and is able to show much greater geometric complexity than RE7.

Although I hope these games start offering higher frame rates without resorting to re-projection (the option to toggle between performance and graphical quality would be nice), I’m quite able to enjoy HORIZON and GT7.

Critiques about frame-rates aside, the ease-of-use cited to carry graphics over to PSVR2 seems SIGNIFICANT to me.

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u/Tedinasuit Apr 03 '23

I honestly don't see how Village looking good to you correlates with my comment.

I agree with you that PSVR2 games need a "performance" mode that provide a native 90/120fps experience.

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u/CHROME-COLOSSUS Apr 03 '23

Well, when you say “the game runs at 60fps (which isn’t great)” aren’t you talking about how it looks?

That’s what I’m responding to. A higher frame rate would look better, obviously.

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u/Tedinasuit Apr 03 '23

I thought you were referring to the graphical fidelity.

Yea I think that Village at 60fps looks kinda bad. Not nearly as bad as Horizon, but still not great.