Originally an Oculus Rift technical demo that debuted at EVE Fanfest earlier this year, EVE Valkyrie is its own standalone product that will launch in 2014.
EVE Valkyrie was first a technical demo that launched at EVE Fanfest in early 2013.
Developer CCP said that while there are "grand visions" for the project, where you fight alongside ships in EVE Online, it'll launch at a smaller scale.
"VR is a very nascent sort of thing," chief managing officer David Reid told Digital Spy.
"It's going to be a lot more initially about nailing the moment-to-moment experience and making something awesome, and then building a game around it.
"From [this initial version] we will absolutely connect EVE Valkyrie with the rest of the EVE universe. It's just what we do.
EVE Valkyrie will eventually work alongside EVE Online, similar to DUST 514.
"There will be a role there for you as a fighter pilot, ultimately. If you think about the big grand visions of 5, 10 years from now, why shouldn't you sometime along the way be able to feel like your EVE ship is flying through space and your Valkyrie pilots come shooting out of the sides like the Vipers in Battlestar Galactica?
"And you have a much more complex and majestic space combat of marines on the ground, navy guys in space, air force guys flying their fighter planes, that is really where we see this going."
He added: "Now there's going to be complexity, and I won't promise [that] you'll see that in 2014 when we launch, but that is ultimately the long-term vision, and we just wouldn't settle for anything less than that as the vision that will drive us over the next 5, 10 years here."
EVE Valkyrie's launch platforms are unknown as Oculus Rift creator Oculus VR has yet to confirm specifics, but it will launch with both single-player and multiplayer components.
"Expect to see rifts on things in a first-person shooter world, [where] you're used to things like Deathmatches, King of the Hill, Capture the Flag – there are analogies for these things that we're working on with the team.
"You're going to have to wait a little longer to get crunchier details on that, but again, making this a game requires us to not just have a hot tech demo that just works for a few minutes, but actually gives the full robust capability that a gamer comes to expect when they're playing a game."
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