Sony Announces “Project Morpheus” HMD
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Mar 20, 2014 13:07 JST
- Tags: Announcements, Controllers, PS4, Sony, Technology
Sony has announced its own head-mounted display for the PlayStation 4, dubbed “Project Morpheus” and finally heralding the arrival of VR on mainstream consoles.
Sony’s experience developing consumer HMDs actually stretches back further than the current main contender – Oculus Rift – and they claim, perhaps even plausibly, to have been working on the latest project for over 3 years:
Our current prototype for Project Morpheus features a head mounted display with 1080p resolution and a 90 degree field of view.
Accelerometer and gyroscope sensors built into the head mounted unit as well as PlayStation Camera accurately tracks head orientation and movement, so as your head rotates, the image of the virtual world rotates intuitively in real-time.
Project Morpheus also features our new 3D audio technology that re-creates stereoscopic sounds in all directions and changes in real-time depending on your head orientation. In addition to PlayStation Camera, Project Morpheus works with DUALSHOCK 4 Wireless Controller and PlayStation Move to deliver an easy-to-use, plug-and-play VR experience.
The prototype for Project Morpheus is the culmination of our work over the last 3+ years as we’ve refined our vision for VR. This prototype will serve as the first development kit for PS4 developers that are as enthusiastic about this new medium as we are.
Not to be outdone, Oculus Rift has also finally started accepting orders for version 2 of its “dev kit” HMD (due to ship in July), although there is still no firm date on the final release of the consumer version – though by all accounts the dev kit is already a formidable product and boasts some fairly impressive PC game support.
As if that were not enough, Microsoft is now also rumoured to be working on an Xbox HMD provisionally dubbed “Fortaleza,” having decided the console still needs to be able to manage actual games as well as TV.
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Hahahaha!
Robots are becoming better,VR is getting stronger.
Soon we shall be free from the shackles of 3D women!
The patience that those who have became Wizards will finally be granted!
Glory to us!
Don't forget your Power Glove.
For epic fisting!
Or Virtual Wanking. Face it, even the polygonal ones will stay away from most guys here.
It's so bad!
We Are VR! VR TROOPERS!
Because Beetle Borgs weren't a bad enough rip-off of Kamen Rider...
You guys are seriously dating yourselves. I think we can use a little Mystic Knights as well :D
hahahahahahaha dude i nearly forget that sound, it was the only thing that actually liked from that show
Lmao!! Glory to us wizards.
I always thought when they said technology would destroy humanity it would be via robots turning on us.
It seems in stead being eaten by a T-rex humanity will be nibbled to death by ducks.
Humans will stop reproducing because every need and desire will be fulfilled by machines BETTER than the real thing. Why have sex with a women when they lolicatgirl feels infinite better? Why subject itself to the pain of giving birth when android sons and daughters are much better? In the end mankind will be reduced to a bunch of hippies and religious fanatics who refused to give up to maximum pleasure while machines will dominate the world.
Of course it's no short-term solution.
Still, a girl who keeps on slowly growing more and more beautiful (or as you ever wanted her to be) over time, is preferable to any random stationary/unchanging doll.
people think about genetic engineering as short term solutions really don't understand genetic engineering. an organism is the end result of genetic expression. meaning what you see is a completed expression. to change this expression, you need mitosis and time. in your example, to make your girl beautiful, you can give her gene therapy, but she will not change over night. she will however grow more and more beautiful in the span of 7 years. Even with newer and better techniques, there is a minimum safety time delay threshold that you cannot cross.
@10:13
U changing doll? Don't make me laugh! Customize her to look anyway you want! Depending on how much the technology advance you could make everything 08:20 said in minutes instead of waiting 10 years.
Also you can't make many drastic changes once she is adult. With machines you can change everything including the whole body or mind!
No, the future's in genetic engineering: craft the woman of your dreams!
- your girl whines too much? just modify a few genes here'n'there and she will stop.
- she looks ugly? make her look better by copy-pasting into her the DNA of your choice from an exclusive selection of all currently best models around.
don't worry, hippies and naturists will always exist... unfortunately they will be the ones to inherit the earth.. the humble ones and all I guess.
Does this remind anyone else of Virtual Boy?
Calm the fuck down, dude. It's just another piece of plastic destined for Chinese landfill.
Great! And we can be spare from your stupidly as you don't be laying egg!
True magecraft is nigh!
Are you really that stupid?
and once AI comes to fruition they'll be sentient too :D
Then they will be smart enough to know not to come near you
Then it all starts all over again...
time for major motion sickness.
Yeah, and eye strain. Didn't they learn from the 90's that in order for it to work right you'd need it customized the same way they do glasses?
Eyes are off-set and usually focus on a single image at a distance of at least 4 inches from them.
It's gonna be like the 3DS's "Don't use for longer than 15 minutes at a time" issue.
I've almost used the 3DS for 15 hours straight once, give or take a few breaks. 3D always on.
Yes, they did learn, which is why VR is suddenly getting a resurgence. Consumer price range parts did not allow for the high resolution, high refresh rate displays and low latency head tracking until the last few years of the smart phone industry ramping up production. The latest Occulus Rift model and the Sony model discussed above have basically eliminated all the former problems.
I wouldn't be surprised if there are edge cases with such bad eyesight they still can't use them, but even people who previously had motion sickness or got massive headaches said the latest versions worked great. I wouldn't write it off until it's out and you have a chance to try it somewhere.
do your research japfags. The optics will be adjustable with a very easy set of instructions. And they already got the motion sickness taken care of long ago.
Not too sure about that 90 FOV.
"Our current prototype for Project Morpheus..."
STFU, XBOT!!!!
An xbot would've been fine with 55fps... same with the playstation fanboys. 90 FOV is the bare minimum for a PC game with the monitor sitting a bit away from you, now stick that monitor to your face and you will wish it was slightly higher.
FINALLY!!! I can enter Sword Art Online!!
Hopefully, without being stuck in a life-or-death game in which the only way to get out is to beat the game, or have your conscience held by some crazy prick that calls himself the fairy king.
WTF, but I LOVE adventure in mysterious world surround by creatures that want to kill me but are too under-leveled to defeat me!! I'm also feeling suicidal, so that should be enough.
@4:24 did you know that Sony have a patent to induce sensations by stimulating the brain via ultrasound?
If u play horror games with these, u might accidently knock the HMD off ur face or something. Maybe kick a few wires around the room by accident. Also, If they made SAO for this, it wouldn't really be as good as SAO in the anime since it's basically a screen right in front of ur eyes, not you being in a fake body in a new world.
VR Roguelike with randomly generated dungeons for thousands upon thousands of floors until you crack under the pressure and isolation.
Horror game, on the VR oh wait it was already done on the Oc Rift
Actually, I'd expect someone to make .hack's The World MMO in the very near future if adoption takes off in any significant numbers. The World was just a VR helmet like this or the Occulus Rift with headphones and a controller. Sword Art Online requires sensory replacement and mental controls. Of course at that point we'll probably wipe ourselves out as a species hiding in VR because real life sucks.
Are you really that naive?
Virtual Reality is finally upon us guys, forget the real world.
Welcome to "The World"
Za Waarudo E Youkoso
How I wish that CC would finally make an online game of .hack :)
screw that noise i know how that one ends /logsout
Interactive porn?
As someone with a Rift dev kit, it's been done. I enjoy my little kijou sessions with Miku
"I enjoy my little kaiju sessions with Miku"
That would have been more interesting....
digital lolis will still have digital rights
Yah and hackers will remove them and seed the torrents.
I think they were too late to the party of the VR field.. unfortunately... As much as I dislike Sony and Microsoft together, if Sony took the edge and completely developed project morephus alongside the PS4 they would of had a winner but I think in the end you be only be able to play PS2 games on it.
pffft most of the world lives in a mass media driven virtual reality right now anyway.
Are you retarded? Serious question.
Are you? Don't take everything so seriously.