Back to Dinosaur Island was first shown at Gamescom 2014, and both demos were later released for free for the Oculus Rift. The game ends with Robin, HIGS, and Laika fighting an adult t-rex, then watching the remaining HIGS data.Ĭrytek first showed their early work in the game in the form of two VR demos, titled Back to Dinosaur Island and Back to Dinosaur Island 2. Then Robin must turn on the power in the Planetarium in the Esmeralda in order to see the last of the corrupted HIGS data. It began life as a glorified tech demo, the catchily titled X-Isle: Dinosaur Island, but flowered with Ubisoft’s backing into the first open world FPS in. The first of those demos placed players in a more static role as a giant dinosaur stared them down at close quarters, and the follow-up featured greater interactivity as users scaled a cliff and took in their expansive. Then Robin and HIGS go looking for Laika and end up in the sinkhole, which leads to a graveyard, and eventually the crashed Esmeralda. Back to Dinosaur Island 1 and 2 offered different types of VR experiences, but both acted as inspiration for Robinson.
The HIGS units have black boxes which contain audio clips and images that help explain what happened to the Esmeralda. After that, they travel to the Tar Pit and Jungle (in any order) looking for any remaining HIGS units, to find out more about why the Esmeralda crashed. Then they travel to a farm, where they have to fix another generator. We talked to Crytek’s Director of Production who explains how the VR dinosaurs came into existence. The team behind the Crysis games Crytek have released their dinosaur themed VR demo Back To Dinosaur Island on Steam, and it’s fully compatible with the Oculus Rift. With the technology demo Back to Dinosaur Island, Crytek has impressively shown what impact VR can make thanks to the often-quoted immersion.
In the home campsite they fix a generator to get the power they need to free Laika. Behind the scenes of Back to Dinosaur Island. The tech demo uses the latest version of the. Robin then travels around the planet with a flying orb, named HIGS, and a baby Tyrannosaurus Tex, James Laika. Crytek has just released a short Virtual Reality (VR) free demo on Steam called Back to Dinosaur Island.
The story begins when the main character, Robin, becomes stranded in a planet called Tyson III when his ship, the Esmeralda, makes a crash landing.