Sony hopes to release Morpheus before the end of fiscal year 2014 (which ends on March 31, 2015). However, they are much further along than people realize and were initially targeting a Fall 2014 release.
The final name wonʼt be Morpheus. The device doesnʼt have a name yet but is likely to be named with an evocative action verb akin to Move, Play, Create and Share, Focus, See, Experience, Imagine, Live, Immerse or something entirely different like Vision
Sony is internally targeting a price of $250-$299 with a camera bundled
Sonyʼs first party studios are working on some absolutely fantastic VR experiences. The Last of Us, God of War and Drive Club are being built into brand new VR experiences from the ground up.
Some of the VR software that Sonyʼs internal teams are working on, (examples he mentioned include virtual tourism through various places and to different eras in human history, space exploration, deep sea exploration and a VR oriented take on PlayStation Home.)
Theyʼve long felt that once the technology becomes feasible, VR experiences (games, virtual tourism, edutainment) could be as big an industry as movies and traditional games are today. They want to be at the frontier of this new industry the same way they were with CDs, and with personal music players when they launched the Sony Walkman. They feel that if properly executed, VR will have more mass appeal than any game console in history and with much longer legs (presumably this was a reference to the Wii) because it offers something that simply hasnʼt been possible before.
The PS4ʼs internal architecture, the Playstation Camera, and the Dualshock 4 (both the lightbar and touchpad) were designed from the outset with VR in mind. Like the PS1 with CDs, the PS2s with DVDs, the PS3 with Blurays, the PS4 was designed to make VR mainstream.
Sony plans to fully and significantly support two unique and distinct platforms, a dedicated cutting edge gaming console, and a brand new plug and play VR platform that offers unique tailored immersive experiences unlike anything anyone has experienced before.
Περισσοτερα στο λινκΤhe PS4 is more than capable of producing beautiful, clean, immersive 1440p 90fps games split into two circles for VR.