Sony just unveiled its plans to release a VR headset for the PS4, and this just might be the Oculus Rift’s first real competition.
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida publicly announced Project Morpheus. Aimed squarely at developers, this prototype VR helmet holds a lot of promise. It sports a 1080p head-mounted display with a 90-degree field of view — comparable to the Oculus Rift. The helmet uses built-in accelerometers and gyroscopes in conjunction with the PlayStation Camera for high fidelity head-tracking, and it works in tandem with the DualShock 4 and PS Move for in-game interactions. There’s no way to tell how well the helmet works until we try it in person, but everything seems to be in line with what we’d expect from a VR product in a post-Oculus world.
From the beginning, a PS4-focused VR solution seemed like an inevitability. Rumors have been bubbling for months regarding Sony’s plans, and executives were hinting at Project Morpheus as early as January. Valve is clearly interested in the possibilities of virtual reality, and it’s a safe bet that Microsoft is hard at work on its own implementation for the Xbox One. Just like motion-based gaming was a massive trend last generation, the VR meme is quickly spreading throughout the entire industry
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