IT ALL BEGAN WITH "PROJECT MORPHEUS"
So back in June, 2015 Sony unveiled its plans about making a virtual reality headset and bringing it to mainstream market and it also showed a glimpse of it and demoed it live and presented it to press to cover the big big news.
Since then the social media has been digging those VR headsets and up-till now leaks and rumors about those headsets have been increased greatly of-course some of them were bogus but others were legit.
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THIS THING WAS ACTUALLY SHOWED FIRST AT GAMESCOM IN 2014 ..
But at that stage there was not much to talk about the project because there were not enough demos and also back in 2014 Virtual Reality as a whole was not a real thing to notice and consider as a big deal.So in 2015 was the real deal for virtual reality.
ALSO
the VR headset demoed in 2015 felt a lot easier and comfortable to wear and playing with it was alot more fun.The 2014's product was not suitable for people who use glasses and the 2015's build was much easier to wear and use.It felt much better.
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| Photo Credits :James Whatley |
NOW IN 2016 SONY HAS RELEASED THE FINAL PRODUCT AND THE WORD TO DESCRIBE IT IS "IMMERSIVE".
The whole idea is to provide the user the best environment of the game and to make him feel that he is actually in the game and provide a great immersive experience so that he can feel similar emotions like the characters in the game and have sensations about his actual presence in that particular environment of the game that he is playing.
TALKING ABOUT THE GAMES ON THIS THING :
the games that they demoed had pretty simple and basic graphics simply because they didn't want to mess things up and also to achieve that high frame-rate.
The games that Sony has demoed included "THE HEIST".its a fun game to play.Its a FPS game but much more intensive in controls such as u have to pick the magazines up if u want to re-lode and then put the magazine in your gun.u can duck behind a , u have to manually aim for the enemy character just like u point a gun to a person in real life.ITS JUST SO COOL.another game that they showed was based on an old arcade game called "BATTLE ZONE".Its also an FPS game but your in a tank this time.
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| Photo Credits: Benjamín Núñez González |
THE WHOLE PACKAGE WILL COST YOU AROUND $800 U.S ...
the headset is $399 U.S , the PlayStation camera is around $50 and obviously the PlayStation 4 right now is selling for $350. 25$ each for the controllers.
MORE THAN 200 GAME DEVELOPMENT FIRMS ARE ALREADY DEVELOPING GAMES FOR PLAYSTATION VR
these include famous developers such as Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. and SEGA Games Co., Ltd. from JAPAN.2k Games and Warner Bros Entertainment Co., Ltd. from NORTH AMERICA.
UbiSoft and Crytek from EUROPE.
the PlayStation VR will be realeased in October 2016 cheers :)
have a nice day ... ;)