
The sense of scale you got from climbing up and seeing the environment was amazingly fun, and we knew we had something special. They began experimenting with the verticality and built a prototype. We took some of our best prototyping designers and thought, “Hey, what could we design that would make sense in VR?” Climbing wasn’t our focus, but we have rock climbers on the team. We wanted to create a special experience, designed specifically for this new virtual reality (VR) hardware.

How did the idea for The Climb come about? We spoke to executive producer Elijah Freeman about the experience of virtual climbing. Crytek, a major game studio known for state-of-the-art technology, launched The Climb, a game that emulates real rock climbing. Photo: CrytekĪ monumental shift came to the video game world this year with the arrival of long-awaited virtual reality headsets. Virtual rock climbing in virtual Ha Long Bay, Vietnam.

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