Sony emphasizes the role Virtual Reality will play in the future
Shuhei Yoshida, Sony Worldwide Studios president, has emphasized the benefits that virtual reality will bring the video gaming and more specifically the hope his company is putting in the Project Morpheus device. He commented to The Verge; ”We have something here that we’ve never experienced before. Working on game development, we always try to create a new kind of experience, and having VR technology is almost unfair“.
“Every developer who has started working on VR learns that they have to relearn what they have learned over the years making games“, he indicated. “A lot of tech and new assets can be used again, but the approach has to be pretty different. You’re building a location-based environment, so the experience has to be good. If the games or apps are designed poorly, it makes people sick, which is a really, really bad thing to have as an introduction. For Sony Computer Entertainment, VR and Morpheus is one of the areas we are very excited about, like cloud gaming with PS now, or other networked services. We’re really focused on bringing that experience to consumers“.
Project Morpheus has no release date for the moment. After various years of development it is possible that 2015 will be the year selected to compete directly with devices like the Oculus Rift.