Starship Commander: Arcade a cinematic VR experience which allows players to have natural language conversations with the Non-player characters in the story in a sci-fi setting.

Developed by Human Interact, a Champaign, Illinois based company, Starship Commander was announced on February 7, 2017 in conjunction with Microsoft.

Human Interact started development of Starship Commander in early 2016 as a narrative-focused title that is played out in virtual reality.

At first, Human Interact attempted to create their own natural language processing technology, but later decided to rely on existing machine learning implementations due to the difficulty of achieving a good degree of accuracy.

Alexander Mejia stated that he decided not to use any motion controllers because users are still so new to VR, they spend a lot of time waving their hands around in virtual space and forget to speak to characters in the story.