PlayStation VR headset 'Project Morpheus' announced
Sony is making a VR headset.
Sony has confirmed plans to make a VR headset, currently dubbed "Project Morpheus." The long-rumored device will compete with Oculus Rift as competition in virtual reality begins to heat up.
"Virtual Reality is the next innovation from PlayStation that may very well shape the future of games," Shuhei Yoshida confirmed at a GDC panel.
The current dev kit features a 1080p display with 90+ degree field of view. However, this is a prototype and isn't necessarily indicative of a final retail product. The VR headset can be used alongside PlayStation Move. Tracking of both the headset and controller are handled by the PlayStation Camera. The headset also promises "true spatial sound, synthesized by simulating the human ear."
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I don't think the PS4 is powerful enough to have quality VR. Occulus developers say they still aren't where they want to be with VR, partly because you need at least 1080p 60fps for each eye to have the immersive experience. PS4 can't hit that with most games now.
I guess it can still be cool, but they will definitely have to cut back on a lot of stuff, like ambient occlusion, to get a high resolution rendered twice.-
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I read even 60fps wasn't good enough as some people still get sick. 75fps+ is needed as bare minimum so I thought.
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but our eyes can only see 30 fps huehue jaja
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its just 1920x540 per eye on the Crystal Cove prototype, but the second render is significant. Also Valve stated that a lot of current high end effects don't work well in current VR. Its plausible that they can get some solid VR experiences.
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960x1080. ya switched them up
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Yes, 90hz was their stated minimum for immersive VR. They also made a big deal about "low persistence" where the panels are dark most of the time and just pulse the image when it's fresh, so that you don't get smearing while your eye is looking at something but you turn your head while keeping your eye locked. The Sony stuff doesn't have either of these features.
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What excites me the most about the OR team is that they have a great grasp on human biology basically to factor into product design and specs.
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now double that. neither console is ready for that.
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ps4 could hit that with less complex scenes, meaning custom games for their VR headset that target whatever framerate and res they want but sacrifce fidelity.
they cant just make killzone run at 90 fps 1080p for a vr headset though. -
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You'll need to render a bit more of the scene to deal with things like occlusion and motion parallax differently in each eye, but that still is only necessary for near objects. There's a lot of optimization that could be done here that would avoid having to render two fully separate 1920x1080 scenes.
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I really doubt there would be that much to copy. It seems like most of your vision is the same but that's only because your brain compensates for the slight differences in view between your eyes.
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I can see rendering the two frames simultaneously being useful: you could potentially only load a texture once and paint it twice, once into each frame. It could be quicker than rendering the whole of the left eye then starting again and rendering the whole of the right eye.
Perhaps all VR systems do this already.
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I seem to remember Sony TV glasses from 14 years ago: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/01/12
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It does still work. Standard monitors can only show one cue, perspective. A VR set does so much more, eg just tracking your head makes a massive difference. In fact it should do everything that makes your vision work IRL.
Like roggor said below, VR with one eye is like real life with one eye. You lose some depth perception, but you lost that IRL before putting on the headset.
This has ofcourse been tested:
http://kotaku.com/playing-occulus-rift-with-only-one-eye-1074765790
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You totally have a deal.
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He's right though. I'm a huge Sony fanboy, but these guys are notorious for showing us their latest cool thing and then dropping it a year later.
Remember the E3 where Sony hyped the shit out of 3D and Move? How long after that did they continue to support either of those with games and advertising?-
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Yeah, that's where this entire trend will live or die. I feel like I've heard nothing but good stuff from many people that have tried the Oculus Rift, but I expect most people will have a hard time getting excited without there being some very broadly available demo units.
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The demand is totally different potentially. Here they are leading instead of Me Tooing. (on the console front)
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Well now they're resurrecting Move to work with their 3D VR headset, so in a way you could say Sony's giving both of those concepts are getting another lease on life. They did go awfully dormant for a while there though.
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I could see this not shipping until 2016.
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I sure hope this goes mainstream and its required for all games not optional. It will give me a reason to stop being a gamer. I'm serious. I thought it would be 3D, but that went up in smoke...maybe this will do it. I'm very weak and always stay...but I dislike it when things become mandatory, where you have to rearrange your entire living room to accommodate one piece of new technology and really im to old for all this stuff. So I am ready to close this chapter in my life and hand it over to my kids.
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Yeah, fuck competition.
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