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Apparently, Sony has plans to immerse gamers into the experience far deeper than passive viewing. In an interview with Develop, Sony London studio manager Mick Hocking discussed the PS Vita, PS3 3D gaming, whether 3D technology was a commercially viable format and then dropped a little more information about their headset project.
“The head-mounted display has twin-OLED screens; very high quality,” he said. “At the moment it’s just a head-mounted display; the head isn’t being tracked – but that’s something we’re doing R&D on… We’re working with a couple of games at Sony that are experimenting with virtual reality type experiences.
The idea of Virtual Reality has been around for a while (Lawnmower Man, Virtual Boy) but Dvice points out that the primitive A.I. and tracking, which Hocking mentions in the interview, is one of the main reasons why actual VR failed in the early 1990s. With the new technology available, Sony may be able to find virtual reality’s holy grail and make the concept a viable reality.
Read this full article here: http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/sony-using-3d-headset-to-experiment-with-virtual-reality-gaming/
Read the Develop story here: https://www.etcenter.org/2011/07/sonys-3d-re-vision/