The “Minecraft: Gear VR Edition” will also enable gamers to choose between a first-person or theater view depending on how hardcore the gamer feels like when he starts building and exploring in VR.
For those who already have their Samsung Gear VR, “Minecraft” can be acquired from the Oculus Store for $7.
After buying the open-world video game “Minecraft” from its Swedish developer Mojang back in 2014 for a whopping $2.5 billion, Microsoft is now all set to take its acquisition to new and better heights.
Drawing on the feature of “Minecraft” as a popular tool to teach children about countless subjects including art, geography, and computer science, the Redmondian company has developed a tweaked version of the game which it called as “MinecraftEdu” specifically meant for educators and teachers.
But Microsoft did not stop there as it just launched on January 19 a new version of the game called “Minecraft: Education Edition” which include features that are not found in the vanilla version of “Minecraft” including enhanced maps with a coordinate system to help teachers and students navigate together, digital portfolios, and simple world importing and exporting.
The new edition of the game will be available initially as a free trial beginning this coming summer, before individual and group pricing models are introduced for academic institutions who may want to have long-term access.