Project Morpheus: Sony's new prototype unveiled at GDC

[ReconZeroCP]

Sony Computer Entertainment was a GDC yesterday to host a press event regarding their virtual reality head-mounted display, codenamed Project Morpheus, which was first unveiled at GDC 2014. With the press event, Sony's Shuhei Yoshida announced and unveiled a brand new prototype of Project Morpheus, featuring several key improvements over their original HMD announced last year.

This is the new Project Morpheus prototype.

The HMD features a 5.7" 1080p OLED display, an improvement over the original's 5" 1080p LCD display; a complete set of 9 LED trackers (which are tracked via the PlayStation Eye Camera), improving the 360 deg. positional tracking of the original's 6 LED trackers; and an improved 100 deg. FOV, while the original had a FOV of 90 deg.

The Official Showreel of the New Project Morpheus from Sony:​

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Virtual reality is here; and is soon to be on PlayStation 4.

Shuhei Yoshida announced Project Morpheus would have its consumer launch by Q2 2016, and promised further information regarding the HMD and its consumer launch at E3 in June this year.

 

[Mr. Lemming]

So the rock star Oculus Rift, the new Valve/HTC one, and now this one too? Least there'll be options for people I guess.

 

[ReconZeroCP]

I think the Sony Morpheus will be "true" consumer VR for the masses; at least for this first generation of VR head-mounted displays. Given the overall cost to use the device is not nearly as much as what will be required to utilize the Oculus Rift's consumer version; which will most likely require a high-end PC to operate with the 90-120hz refresh rate of the display / FPS required for the game itself at 1440p+ resolution (most likely the same / similar requirements for the HTC Vive from Valve).

I do have to say the Morpheus does look damn sleek for a developer kit, lol.

 

[ChocolateVillain]

So the rock star Oculus Rift, the new Valve/HTC one, and now this one too? Least there'll be options for people I guess.

Need to add Nvida's one too.

 

[ReconZeroCP]

Though nothing official has been announced by Nvidia about their rumoured "Titan VR" headset leaked a few days prior to GDC; I was interested in its official announcement, but nothing came. -_-

An all-in-one headset would be nice, its only competition would have been GameFace.