Star Trek: Bridge Crew Steps Onto The Holodeck

Star Trek Bridge Crew is now available for use by all Federation officers. Like all the best inventions since the seventies (automatic doors, mobile phones, microwave ovens and the internet), Star Trek has been the driving force behind them all. So It shouldn’t be any surprise that VR (the Holodeck) is finally getting a Star Trek game.

But Bridge Crew is not just any Star Trek game, Bridge Crew is every Trekkie’s dream come true. It’s a virtual simulation of what it’s like to be an officer on the bridge of a massive starship, to face challenges side by side with your crew, to encounter new worlds and new alien species, to have the fate of civilizations balanced on your decisions, and to face the unknown with nothing but a few hundred redshirts and a highly advanced starship between you and oblivion.

Frankly, even non-Trekkies should be excited about this, it’s practically every closet nerds dream to be transported to another world and live an adventure filled with heroism and discovery. If all that wasn’t enough, Bridge Crew has been enthusiastically endorsed by Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Enterprise Engineer. Being the go-to guy for Holodeck repairs makes Geordi the logical choice for judging anything VR related, of course, the number of times the Holodeck broke down bears no reflection on his engineering skill at all.

Star Trek: Bridge Crew is available for £39.99 (or your regional equivalent). Do note that it also requires an account with Ubisoft Play, a copy of Uplay and a VR setup to be able to play it.

Official Press Release

READY YOUR CREW AND PREPARE FOR WARP in STAR TREK: BRIDGE CREW, AVAILABLE NOW

STEP ABOARD A FEDERATION STARSHIP IN A NEW VIRTUAL REALITY GAME FROM UBISOFT: TO BODLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE

LONDON, UK — May 30th 2017 — Today, Ubisoft announced that Star Trek: Bridge Crew, the virtual reality game where players explore space as a member of Starfleet, is now available for Oculus Rift, PlayStation VR and HTC Vive. Developed by Red Storm Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, under license by CBS Consumer Products, Star Trek: Bridge Crew is playable cross-platform.

Star Trek: Bridge Crew immerses fans into the Star Trek universe as they assume the role of a Starfleet officer and complete missions that will determine the fate of their ship and crew. Playable cooperatively online with a crew, or solo as Captain, Star Trek: Bridge Crew puts players and their friends directly onto the bridge of a new starship, the U.S.S. Aegis, as they are dispatched to explore an uncharted sector of space.

In addition to an engaging story campaign, Star Trek: Bridge Crew features an Ongoing Voyages mode featuring randomised missions for countless hours of solo and co-op adventures on board the U.S.S Aegis or the legendary U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701, authentically recreated from Star Trek: The Original Series.

Created exclusively for VR, Star Trek: Bridge Crew utilizes the powerful sense of social presence possible through virtual reality. Through hand tracking and full-body avatars, including real-time lip-sync, players can live out their Star Trek fantasies as they operate the Starfleet ship as Captain, Engineer, Helm or Tactical. Each role is crucial to the success of the varied missions players face, and only by working together can the crew complete their objectives.

Additionally, Star Trek: Bridge Crew will include IBM Watson interactive speech and cognitive capabilities during an experimental beta period this summer. With IBM Watson, players will be able to use their voice and natural-language commands to interact with their virtual Starfleet crew members.

Star Trek: Bridge Crew marks the most recent project in virtual reality for Ubisoft, which believes in the strong potential of VR to redefine social gaming with a unique sense of reality. Ubisoft recently released Werewolves Within and Eagle Flight, and announced a VR partnership with the film company SpectreVision.

For more information about Star Trek: Bridge Crew, please visit startrekbridgecrew.com.