Sickboy007
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Viewer is a literal translation from "visore", so yes, it means the HMD.
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EDGE: Sonys VR tech will be revealed at GDC
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FunkyPajamas
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Omnistalgic
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If Sony has something that's thre equivalent of "wii sports" for VR, I'm ready but they shouldn't release banking on other Devs outside of sony
I hope Sony has there own version of this. It turns the Move and nav controller into a single device. Two of these would be the perfect VR input device.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hykjEBYzCnE
That demo would've been so SICK with VR. Man... when are we going to get decent games with tech like this?? (VR included) I hope it happens this console generation.
Oh, thanks.
Sony will obviously have first party exclusive stuff, if it's a WiiSports like mini-game collection or not is yet to be seen.
FunkyPajamas
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Two separate sources with the same info, that pushes it from posibility into reality, no?
Pretty megatonesque IMO.
KoopaTheCasual
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Oh snippy-snaps
Nightengale
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FunkyPajamas
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HORRORSHØW
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it's really happening, isn't it?
FunkyPajamas
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Mierda se puso real.Grimløck;104461107 said:
quantumnerd
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I didn't think this thing would hit so soon. Hype! Hype for the hype god!
TheRealTalker
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Good this may actually yeild to something compared to all the other times
CES, TGS
CES, TGS
FunkyPajamas
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So... DriveClub re-reveal incoming, or am I setting myself up for disappointment?
Not sure if it will be shown at GDC. There may be only one or two demos, and there's a few alternative possibilities.
However I think once this particular cat is out of the bag Evo will at least start talking about DC again.
Sickboy007
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Correction: the guy is not a journalist for the site, but a collaborator and moderator.
FunkyPajamas
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Nice, thank you!
Is the general expectation that VR will be playable at E3, released fall 2014, or shown at E3, released 2015?
Didn't read lol.gif - still hyped.
Rearranged to kill or battle Titanfall makes a lot of sense or they felt they could ride the launch hype
Nightengale
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I don't know about general expectations, but what I hope is this:
Announced at GDC with tech demo.
Full unveiling and playability at E3, release date/price/first-party VR titles.
Fall 2014, together with DriveClub.
By the way, perhaps it's already been mentioned, but the listing for the other Sony session about 'PlayStation4's new input devices' has been corrected to indicate that it is one hour long, rather than the original two. Which makes more sense. It's the day after Yoshida's session so it's quite plausible they'll talk again about VR and VR interaction with Move etc. there.
edit - Actually, there's going to be an accompanying demo at the Sony booth tied to that second session...so I'm guessing it's not VR related at all. It probably is 'just' a DS4/Move/Camera/AR thing.
http://us.playstation.com/develop/gdc-2014/booth-features/
edit - Actually, there's going to be an accompanying demo at the Sony booth tied to that second session...so I'm guessing it's not VR related at all. It probably is 'just' a DS4/Move/Camera/AR thing.
http://us.playstation.com/develop/gdc-2014/booth-features/
Sidewinder
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I hope this is how it'll go down, would be absolutely perfect! A fall release for DC would be quite disappointing, but VR would easily make up for it.
FunkyPajamas
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This would be perfect.
I hope they have a VR room app of sorts where you can invite friends and change themes (snow mountain, volcano, forest, cave, etc), while interacting with simple objects. That would be killer.
But... That description sounds exactly like it's a VR demo?
FunkyPajamas
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Really? It doesn't sound like that to me ):
Why? Because of the App?
If you look at the list:
DualShock® 4 controller,
PlayStation® Camera,
PlayStation® Move,
PlayStation® App,
the new interactive services
And the claim:
a unique experience only found on the PS4
It's clear you're not going to be using all those things literally at the same time, so it's a series of demos that uses some of those elements.
I think they'll announce a min-games collection, or a selection of tech demos that will become the mini-game collection, and they each use some of those things in the demo.
FunkyPajamas
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You may be right. It seemed to me like the main focus of the demo was going to be the interactive experience while live streaming games, but it sounds like there's room for VR in there with the camera and Move.
TimFL
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They are talking about the interact feature of livestreams.
With the Move?
Why do they even need to demo that stuff? I thought it was just you can take over someone's game if they want you to?
TimFL
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It also doesn't make sense to use the Move, the Controller and the App together. I think they are just listing all input devices/features they have which includes the livestream interact feature which results in an unique gaming experience only found on PS4.
But it says 'and' for the streaming, suggesting it's also one of the suite of features, not that they all center around it, to me at least.
Marvel
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Very good!
googleplex
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Come to think of it, that sort of attachment would actually make a lot of sense. It would be cheap and very effective provided Move face buttons are mirrored onto the attachment (which would connect to the Move via its EXT port).
They might actually release it with Navi functionality already "embedded" so that all you'd need would be the Moves. Kinda like the STEM system.
Ideally replace the STEM module with a Move.
That is actually a great ideal. So ideally a PlayStation VR HMD would come with a Move controller a Stem like attachmet? That shouldn't be too costly.
SPACECADET
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what if we're already in a virtual reality...?
vpance
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Sounds promising if it's pointing to what we think it is. They're not going to let it be a tech demo device for the core that withers and dies.
Publicly traded companies will almost never openly leak things that can have impact on their stock prices. Lets see what they will showcase in 2 days on GDC.
I understand that, I just think it's odd. It's not like announcing VR, it's just saying they're messing with it somewhere, but they've already showed us that. They even shipped a VR unit for PS2 twelve years ago. I feel like they should be able to mention VR in a job ad.
vpance
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Hardly anyone remembers those devices. The first official confirmation needs to have some fanfare around it, not from a job posting
