Sony VR Headset/Project Morpheus/PlayStation VR

[London Geezer]

Wow £349. Bought. Sold. Bye.

 

[Clukos]

https://twitter.com/PlayStation/status/709849975182663680

 

[eastmen]

So they have a virtual cinema for gaming with regular titles

 

[Egmon83]

The price doesn't matter to me, but I understand the decision. I am a bit upset about the release date, though this will allow for more, and better games at launch. They will be going all out at games com and paris games week that's for sure

Eurogamer doesn't seem to be that enthusiastic.. any other liveblogs?

Come to think of it, the event would probably be live streamed if there was a price announcement. So either it's launching in Q3, the price is rather high... or.. there is no price at all.
If there is a price 249-339 is where it's at!

I wish my other predictions were right.

It could have been worse though:

we have partnered with Samsung, who will provide PSVR with an industry leading.. 1920*1080... pentile display!"

 

[eastmen]

So sony doesn't have motion controls out of the box or positional tracking . Going to be interesting to see what happens with this thing ..

 

[Karamazov]

why october ? so long to wait

but i'll buy it day one. Come to me driveclub VR and battlefront "experience", whatever it is.

 

[hughJ]

In regards to Battlefront-VR, if I had to guess, they're probably going to have fixed position, turret-style action where you stand and shoot in selected spots in trenches, gun turrets, or sit in cockpits for AT-ATs and ships. It'd allow them to skirt the FPS movement motion sickness issue and keep the development time/cost sensible.

 

[Karamazov]

So sony doesn't have motion controls out of the box or positional tracking . Going to be interesting to see what happens with this thing ..

well a dual shock is actually like a move controller. as for the camera, in my country they sold a lot of bundles with camera at launch, and i would not like to be forced to buy a more expensive PSVR because of the pscamera included in the box.

 

[Karamazov]

In regards to Battlefront-VR, if I had to guess, they're probably going to have fixed position, turret-style action where you stand and shoot in selected spots in trenches, gun turrets, or sit in cockpits for AT-ATs and ships. It'd allow them to skirt the FPS movement motion sickness issue and keep the development time/cost sensible.

or it could be space battles or... pod racing !

 

[London Geezer]

I have a camera and don't need two. Lots of people have Move and don't need more. Makes sense to sell them all separately, then offer bundles for those who don't have camera and Move.

 

[Nesh]

I have a camera and don't need two. Lots of people have Move and don't need more. Makes sense to sell them all separately, then offer bundles for those who don't have camera and Move.

I hope thats the price for the full bundle and that the will be indeed selling the VR separately and cheaper than the mentioned price

 

[eastmen]

well a dual shock is actually like a move controller. as for the camera, in my country they sold a lot of bundles with camera at launch, and i would not like to be forced to buy a more expensive PSVR because of the psmove included in the box.

How are they going to advertise it. Its going to be very weird when someone not as knowledgable as us gets home with the psvr , hooks it up and then loads up a game and gets ps camera required .

They go get the camera grumbling about the money ..... PS move required ! Lol

Seems odd to say the least The move thing they can put a sticker on the box so its not a big deal. But it will be odd to list multiple requirements for a game not included with the hardware.

I'm assuming they expect most people to just play old ps4 games with the headset on

 

[gmoran]

So sony doesn't have motion controls out of the box or positional tracking . Going to be interesting to see what happens with this thing ..

Is that the score with the camera then, that your HMD works but you only get orientation tracking, and you have to buy the camera for positional?

I was absolutely convinced it would come with the camera. Not too big a deal for me as I already have the PS4 camera, but a bit surprised. $44 as well, so approx $150 cheaper than Oculus with the same basic setup, though Oculus includes a controller that you don't need with PS4. So not actually that different in price.

 

[MrFox]

Eastmen. Please.

 

[eastmen]

I hope thats the price for the full bundle and that the will be indeed selling the VR separately and cheaper than the mentioned price

Its not you can clearly hear him say that the picture shows everything included in the bundle for $400 . There is no ps move or camera shown.

I expect a new revision of the move controller now that its not included. Most likely one that has micro usb or even inductive charging

 

[Egmon83]

Btw without PS Eye PSVR would be like... DK1???

 

[London Geezer]

So they somehow build a ps4 without a power brick but then release a "mini ps4" for PSVR with a bloody power brick for it??

 

[Egmon83]

Or a low, low, low-end version of the HMZ T-1 ?
It's nice to be able to play all PS4 games though I don't expect the resolution to be comparable to a real tv. So games with small interfaces will be difficult to play

 

[eastmen]

here is a better picture

 

[hughJ]

Having a separate SKU for Move is one of the things I'm most jealous of on the PC - there's going to be a lot of smashed Vive and Touch controllers and replacing them probably won't be as simple as driving 5 minutes to the nearest bestbuy.