CCP, the developers behind EVE Online and EVE Valkryie, is scaling back on its VR development. EVE Valkryie was there day one with the launch of the Oculus Rift, but the company sees the market as still niche, with an estimated base of about 2.4 million users on PC headsets. Its office in Atlanta will close and any remaining efforts will be from its other offices. “Our belief in the long-term transformative power of the technology remains strong,” said CEO Hilmar Veigar Petursson.



About 30 jobs are being lost during the restructure, it added, saying that it had given staff “severance packages” and would help them find other work. A potential buyer had been found for the Newcastle office, said CCP, adding that negotiations over the sale were continuing.

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