Sony Computer Entertainment is to host a session next week at the Game Developers Conference.
The talk is by industry heavyweights SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, SCEA R&D senior director Richard Marks and SCEA R&D senior software engineer Anton Mikhailov. Richard Marks was behind previous PlayStation peripherals the PS Move and EyeToy, so there is a good chance he has been overseeing the VR headset.
There is also a potential clue in the title of session, “Driving the Future of Innovation at Sony Computer Entertainment”, as DriveClub is one of the games rumoured to use the new tech to simulate an in-car view.
Two weeks ago we revealed that an insider had tipped off TechRadar with news that the VR headset would be announced at GDC.
The GDC session is scheduled for March 18 from 5:45pm – 6:45pm PST Â which is a fantastically annoying 00:45am – 01:45am Wednesday morning for everyone in the UK.
Source: CVG
kjkg
The theory behind the VR headset is amazing, the practice is so much harder to meet expectations.
Funnily enough I’ve been let down by so many pieces of tech that are the “future” but never seem to learn my lesson. This will no doubt be the same all over again.
camdaz
More amazing is the tech in the Avegent Glyph,which uses two million micro-mirrors to project the image onto your retina inside your eyes, no screen needed.
kjkg
Googled and now want. Will invoice you for this additional cost however, since I knew nothing about it until you mentioned it.
camdaz
No probs, how many are you getting? :-)
NOSAJ19
This will be quite interesting to see what they will unveil in regards to if Sony will reveal the VR headset with firm pricing and launch details or only a partial reveal. I certainly agree that the name of the event is potentially a clue involving DriveClub.
Does anyone know if Sony will be having a livestream of this event? Surely, if you wanted to reveal something to the world; you would make it really easy for people to watch the event live as they did when the PS4 was revealed in February 2013.
mclarenrob2
Im hoping there will be a livestream, i’d stay up for this.
Im genuinely excited for this reveal but also keeping my expectations in check!
djdustb
I kind of hope that this is not a VR headset, the move was an expensive waste of time and money that sits gathering dust while I try to justify the spend.
They should spend the time and money on boosting the PS4 games and fixing the missing firmware rather than fragmenting the users into those with VR and those without.
NotSmartEnough
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Sony didn’t support Move properly; there were a few fun titles but nothing compelling. That’s not a reason for Sony to not release other peripherals for ps4, they learned a few lessons last gen, give them a chance.
I’m hyped for the VR headset (assuming it exists); somewhere I’ve got a NegCon and dual analog pad and I won’t be able to resist this either. Chances are there will be some great indie titles and a few mainstream ones, adopt early or wait and see, more choice hurts no-one.
Pursuing VR is unlikely to derail other developments; I doubt that the team working on CD and DLNA support are the same ones building VR support!
RudeAwakening
I actually feel VR could not come quick enough, I’m dying to try VR out.
boeboe
Anything to wash the staleness of COD, Hollyoaks, reality TV shows can only be good.
Please be good please be good.
Kitch
Am I the only one that sees Jay-K from jamiriquai on the thumbnail for this story?
Foxhound_Solid
Imagine playing Dead Space with these :-/
MayContainEvil
I don’t have enough pants. 0_o
Gaztee
will be interesting to see how the Vr is used. The 20 year old Atari Jaguar unit used IR to track head movement. It could only track 120 degrees of movement in front of the tracker. If you wanted 360 degree movement you had to link 3 trackers. The fact that they never built many more than 3 didn’t help! Even so for its age the tech worked pretty well on the only game it supported. I’m looking forward to seeing how Sony have advanced the technology in those 20 years!