‘Ready Player One’ VR games show the future is now

To promote the Ready Player One film debuting on March 29th, HTC partnered with a handful of VR developers to create 1980s-inspired experiences for the Vive and Vive Pro headsets. At SXSW, I dove into four of these games — Smash, Fracture, Gauntlet and Rise of the Gunters — ahead of their launch on SteamVR …