{"id":90689,"date":"2016-04-28T07:33:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T05:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90689"},"modified":"2016-04-28T18:01:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T16:01:37","slug":"minecraft-gear-vr-edition-has-officially-been-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/mobile\/90689-minecraft-gear-vr-edition-has-officially-been-launched","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft: Gear VR Edition has officially been launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minecraft has officially arrived on the VR platform with the release of Minecraft: Gear VR Edition.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oculus.com\/en-us\/blog\/minecraft-now-available-on-oculus-for-gear-vr\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oculus announced<\/a><\/strong> that the VR version of Minecraft is now available from the Oculus Store and is compatible with the mobile Gear VR headset.<\/p>\n<p>The game is similar to Minecraft: Pocket Edition and features the same basic mechanics, including multiplayer.<\/p>\n<p>Minecraft: Gear VR Edition can be played from either a theatre view or a more immersive first-person perspective.<\/p>\n<p>In order to play Minecraft: Gear VR Edition, you will need a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/SteelSeries-Stratus-Bluetooth-Wireless-Controller\/dp\/B015WKY3IM\/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?ie=UTF8&amp;keywords=stratus%20xl%20for%20windows%20android&amp;pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70&amp;qid=1447178270&amp;ref_=mp_s_a_1_1&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">wireless gamepad<\/a><\/strong> in addition to your smartphone and Gear VR headset.<\/p>\n<p>Minecraft: Gear VR Edition is available from the Oculus Store for <strong>$6.99<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out the announcement video for Minecraft: Gear VR Edition below.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_rYfkDmSRKs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The future of competitive gaming in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88255-the-future-of-competitive-gaming-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The future of competitive gaming in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Incredible gaming and tech deals at Dion Wired\u2019s Somerset and Gateway re-launch sales\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90538-incredible-gaming-deals-at-dion-wireds-somerset-and-gateway-re-launch-sales.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Incredible gaming and tech deals at Dion Wired\u2019s Somerset and Gateway re-launch sales<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome geeky suits for the serious gamer\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90307-awesome-geeky-suits-for-the-serious-gamer.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome geeky suits for the serious gamer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minecraft has officially arrived on the VR platform with the release of Minecraft: Gear VR Edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":90691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226],"tags":[15928,333,18313,8299,1435,6477],"class_list":["post-90689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-gear-vr","tag-minecraft","tag-minecraft-gear-vr-edition","tag-mobile","tag-samsung","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}