Project Morpheus releasing early 2016.

werto165 · March 3, 2015

"At last year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sony unveiled its virtual reality headset, called Project Morpheus. One year later, the company has finally announced a release timeframe for the device: the first half of 2016."

"A year ago, we were hear at GDC to unveil Project Morpheus," explained Shuhei Yoshida, President of World Wide Studios. "And for the last year we all have seen the VR world explode. More people than ever have tried VR at a variety of events... this increased consumer exposure to VR has been very important." He explained how Sony has spent the past year tweaking its dev kit based on consumer and developer feedback. "We want to deliver a VR experience that lives up to our vision," he explained."

"Yoshida also unveiled the latest prototype of the device, which features a 1920 x 1080 RGB OLED display, as well as a 120hz refresh rate and "super low latency." It also includes a 5.7-inch display and a 100 degree field of view, and nine LEDs for positional tracking; that's three more than the previous version of the headset. "We wanted to improve the visual experience and tracking accuracy," he said. The design, meanwhile, has been tweaked to make it easier to take the device on and off your head."

Personally I don't know how they're going to offer the same VR experience as that which will be available on PC. Being 120Hz panel is great and all but with the majority of games coming out for the PS4 being 1080p 30FPS, I just don't see how they can deliver a great VR experience without cutting down on the fidelity. Cutting down on fidelity is a terrible thing to do though as most developers techniques for improving game performance simply don't work in VR. Anyway well have to wait and see I guess.

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Decon · March 3, 2015

"At last year's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sony unveiled its virtual reality headset, called Project Morpheus. One year later, the company has finally announced a release timeframe for the device: the first half of 2016."

"A year ago, we were hear at GDC to unveil Project Morpheus," explained Shuhei Yoshida, President of World Wide Studios. "And for the last year we all have seen the VR world explode. More people than ever have tried VR at a variety of events... this increased consumer exposure to VR has been very important." He explained how Sony has spent the past year tweaking its dev kit based on consumer and developer feedback. "We want to deliver a VR experience that lives up to our vision," he explained."

"Yoshida also unveiled the latest prototype of the device, which features a 1920 x 1080 RGB OLED display, as well as a 120hz refresh rate and "super low latency." It also includes a 5.7-inch display and a 100 degree field of view, and nine LEDs for positional tracking; that's three more than the previous version of the headset. "We wanted to improve the visual experience and tracking accuracy," he said. The design, meanwhile, has been tweaked to make it easier to take the device on and off your head."

Personally I don't know how they're going to offer the same VR experience as that which will be available on PC. Being 120Hz panel is great and all but with the majority of games coming out for the PS4 being 1080p 30FPS, I just don't see how they can deliver a great VR experience without cutting down on the fidelity. Cutting down on fidelity is a terrible thing to do though as most developers techniques for improving game performance simply don't work in VR. Anyway well have to wait and see I guess.

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