Sony continues to develop its new toy that is Project Morpheus, which would allow gamers to experience immersive games in a full 360-degree environment. This is in response to the Oculus Rift that has already been around for quite some time, as one of the most famous VR gaming device in the market.
Project Morpheus allows users to play games using Dualshock gamepad that comes with a few integrated motion-control functions. Sony also combined some of the elements from its Playstation Move products, which is comparable to the Microsoft Kinect motion control system.
Moreover, Morpheus can track the players' hands via handheld batons. the components are helpful in performaing actions like reloading weapons manually or completing coordination challenges.
Project Morpheus takes pride of its sleek and impressive design. Unlike the slightly box-like appearance of the Oculus rift, the Project Morpheus' headset has a round form, with a matte-finish plastic. The visor is fitted to a white plastic headband, and has nine LEDs located at the front, rear and at the sides to deliver pinpoint accuracy positional tracking. The device has no built-in audio. However, it still offers gamers the options to connect their own earpieces. This allows them to configure the ausio quality according to ther needs.
Under the hood, the Project Morpheus sports a 5.7in 1920 X 1080 OLED display with stereoscopic 3D that converts images into 1080p resolution per eye. It also has increased colour saturation and brightness giving vibrance and quality to the images.
The head-tracking uses the Playstation Camera, which Sony claims to capture the headset's position up to 1000 times per second. Improvements have also been made to the frame and refresh rates, bringing them down to 120fps and 120hz, respectively.
Project Morpheus is set for a 2016 release with a rumored price tag of about $200. The device wast first introduced during the 2015 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) conference.
A few games supporting the VR headset are already out like "Rigs", "Wayward Sky", and the latest space shooter "Hyper Void". Although they don't have lengthy gameplays, they help make the project's progress toward its mainstream release.
More updates will become available as Sony continues to develop the project. Giving amore immersive experience to gamers. The VR headset is expected to work with Playstation4 as well as on PC.
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