Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Playstation releases VR headset this year – and lowers the price level properly – Business Week

Playstation VR will cost 200 dollars less than Facebook’s Oculus Rift, but the question is if it will even be possible to use.

Sony’s virtual reality headset for Xbox goes on sale in October. The price of the Playstation VR gets $ 399, writes the site The Verge. For those who already own a PlayStation 4, the price according to analysts ‘almost’ seen as cheap – at least compared to many of its competitors. Facebook’s VR headset Oculus Rift priced from $ 599 and HTC Vive is 799 dollars, and when these products require powerful computers that cost significantly more than a PS4.

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the fly in the ointment is that the basic model of the Playstation Move VR supplied without controls and also without the Playstation camera, which is required to use the device. According to Sony, this is because many PS4 owners have already purchased the camera.

The consumer version of the Playstation VR’s main screen, a 5.7-inch OLED display that can display games at up to 120 frames per second. The resolution is 1920 x 1080 and each pixel has full RGB color. According to Sony, 50 games released in the period between its launch in October and the beginning of the year – among other things, will it be a VR version of Star Wars: Battlefront.

Playstation VR presented already two years ago at the Game Developer Conference GDC, then the product was in the sci-fi-sounding name of “Project Morpheus.”

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