Welcome to the second of our Dev Blog series for “The Mighty 8th VR”.

Today we are happy to share with you our further work in progress.


We have aimed to create a sandbox and training areas around the Thorpe Abbotts airbase so players can test their skills and get some familiarity with guns prior to taking to the sky.

You will notice in the video that the airfield is starting to come to life. There are many vehicles moving from place to place and beyond. The keen-eyed among you will also notice a G506 driving around with a very interesting gun mounted on the back, whilst we don’t show you how this works in today's video it will come in videos further down the track.

The video also shows work in progress of some of the various roles that we have been implementing and testing. You will notice multiple gunner roles, pilot and bombardier roles are starting to take shape. Whilst we have been working on the Norden Bomb Sight, we felt it was better for us to save that for a future video.

The video has been captured on a Steam PCVR build on an Oculus Quest 2 connected via wifi using Virtual Desktop. The game will also work via the Steam app and Oculus Airlink, using motion controllers. We have also been testing with hand tracking on the Quest 2, and that is partially working already. We aim to support as many headsets as possible when the game launches.

Thanks again for your support so far. The team is making great strides now as we have overcome some real technical hurdles we faced early on. We look forward to sharing more with you soon.

Please feel free to reach out with comments and questions and we will see if we can cover them in future blogs.

We are also avid VR gamers here, so if you have played an amazing VR game recently that you think our team should check out feel free to name-drop it in the comments.