The Game Awards will be broadcast live in Oculus Venues tomorrow, allowing you to watch the awards with other Venues viewers and interact and chat with them throughout the show.
The Game Awards are an annual award show hosted and founded by games journalist Geoff Keighley. Not only do the awards celebrate the past year of games through various categories (similar in concept to the Oscars, Grammys or Emmys), but the show also usually features a wealth of new announcements from developers and game studios.
This year will be the first year that the showed will be live in Oculus Venues. Venues is a social VR application that allows you to attend live events in VR, surrounded by other Oculus Venue users in stadium-style seating. You can talk and interact with those around you and basically attend the event in VR in similar ways to attending it in real life. We’ve previously given our thoughts on some Oculus Venues events, such as when a Billie Eilish concert was streamed live in Venues a few months ago.
This year, the nominees for Best VR/AR Game include:
- Asgard’s Wrath (Sanzaru Games/Oculus Studios)
- Blood & Truth (SIE London Studio/SIE)
- Beat Saber (Beat Games)
- No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
- Trover Saves the Universe (Squanch Games)
We’re also expecting some more Half-Life: Alyx info at The Game Awards too, according to Geoff Keighley.
You can mark yourself as interested in the Venues broadcast online, which begins at 5:30pm PST. We’ll be watching the event tomorrow and covering any VR-related news follows, so be sure to keep an eye out tonight.
Alternatively, you can also watch live in Bigscreen with other users there.
