Sony has lately been pushing for a wider adoption of three-dimensional gaming, encouraging players to pair up the PlayStation 3 home gaming console with the 3D capable television sets that it sells, but it seems that the company is looking forward, getting ready to unleash virtual reality on the gaming world.
The push started at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, which took place earlier in the year, where the company showed off a new headset and more information will apparently be offered soon on the new virtual reality concept.
Mike Hocking, who is a vice president at
Sony, has stated, “Another thing that’s coming back which I’m very excited is the notion of virtual reality”, as powered by “our new HMD – or head-mounted display – which was announced at CES earlier this year, and you can see that we can now get back to where we really wanted to get with virtual reality in the ’80s.”
He added, “We’ve now got the power to do it, we’ve got the screen resolution to do it, we’ve got the processing power to update fast enough so we can have very immersive experiences on head-mounted displays in gaming in the not too distant future.”
The
Sony virtual reality effort seems to be aimed primarily at gamers, with Hocking talking about virtual guns and how the experience will be closer to reality than current technologies like motion tracking.
The problem with making virtual reality gaming a mainstream phenomenon is that the gaming market has been assaulted by new technologies lately and seems saturated at the moment.
Three-dimensional gaming, despite the success of the 3DS and the Sony efforts, has not become mainstream yet and it could be tough for Sony to convince gamers to pay up for yet another concept that might never power enough games to make the purchase worthwhile.
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