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New Project Morpheus Prototype Shown at GDC

VRFocus- For the past year virtual reality (VR) fans have been referring to Sony Computer Entertainment’s (SCE) head-mounted display (HMD) for PlayStation 4 as Project Morpheus. The company revealed the device with that codename as a prototype at the 2014 Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, California, USA. A year later and SCE has returned to GDC to showcase a new version of Project Morpheus.

Pandamobile3433d ago (Edited 3433d ago )

Interesting to see that Sony are actually making good on that ridiculous 120 FPS comment from years back.

BitbyDeath3433d ago

Yea, 1080P was a given but did not expect it to be 120FPS.
Impressive.

lameguy3433d ago

The screen refreshes at 120Hz. Games that fail to meet that will be provided similar treatment to 24fps TV when you use the 60fps option on "smart" TVs (soap-opera effect)

jhoward5853433d ago (Edited 3433d ago )

That's 60fps for each eye. combined,"120fps"

yewles13433d ago

jhoward585 nailed it. It's just like those PS3 titles that pulled it off like SSHD.

-Foxtrot3433d ago

So how do you activate the TRON cycle?

sonic9893433d ago

i am not interested in VR or AR .
but congrats to sony for their amazing work hopefully more good news to come in the coming months .

lameguy3433d ago (Edited 3433d ago )

For those that have used VR, how do you think it will apply to non-FPS genres? Will it work well for 3rd person or top-down games?

Also, titles like Hellblade (according to their dev diary) are prototyping various character movement systems and much of it looks to be non VR friendly. I wonder if the added realism of restricting the camera movement for VR will have good gaming ramifications outside of FPS and flight/racing sim games.

Jdoki3432d ago

This is a good question.

Looking at the price of the Oculus dev kit, it's pretty clear that these devices are not going to be cheap - so people will want to use them with the widest number of titles.

FPS, driving games, flight games are a no-brainer. RTS games could be good as looking down on the battlefield would be neat. Sports games could be interesting (First Person view in Madden, FIFA, MLB : The Show etc??)

I think that in 3rd person games the effect will still work well, but be slightly less immersive. In that case the device becomes less 'Virtual Reality', and more 'Alternative type of screen'.

I assume that the Morpheus can be used as a regular display as well as a VR unit - so for non-VR games it could be a case of the Morpheus just presenting the game as if it's on a large HDTV screen.

jhoward5853433d ago

120fps in mind. MMMM, sounds like Project Morpheus could be a future proof device.

PS5+Project Morpheus= greatness

elazz3433d ago

Yeah, or maybe the internal processor copies each frame that's being played twice. Then you don't need that extra juice.

Hopefully this device will also be compatible with PC

jhoward5853433d ago (Edited 3433d ago )

Like you said, Project Morpheus should be compatible with PC b/c I think oculus is going to run circle around Morpheus all day long.

Could you imagine: 2video cards + dx12/mantle+ Oculus = Fun.

Edit: I agree with the disagrees on my i made commit above this one. 4k VR will most likely be the next tech next gen.

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Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Aniplex, and Pocketpair jointly establish Palworld Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment Japan, subsidiary Aniplex, and Palworld developer Pocketpair have announced the establishment of Palworld Entertainment, a joint venture that will be responsible for developing the reach of the intellectual property and for expanding commercial business endeavors, including the global licensing and merchandising activities associated with Palworld, outside of the game.

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Eonjay16d ago

Does this mean that Palworld is getting an anime?

Abnor_Mal16d ago

Crazy that they’ve formed a partnership of sorts, but the game itself still haven’t been released on PlayStation

badz14916d ago

It's still in Early Access. If it ever goes gold, there will definitely be a PS5 version, might even be a PS4 version too

Abnor_Mal16d ago

I still have no clue what this game is all about, to be honest.

badz14916d ago

@Abnor_Mal

If games like ARK is not to your liking, then Palworld wouldn't be your cup of tea either...I think.

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10 Best PSP RPGs Of All Time

The PS1 and PS2 both had strong RPG libraries, so it’s not a huge surprise that the PSP saw numerous excellent RPG releases, covering original releases, ports, and spinoffs/sequels to major franchises.

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jznrpg27d ago

Great list but needs to be 12 you don’t have Star Ocean First Departure and Second Story!

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New Sony Controller May Let You Draw Your Own Buttons Using Conductive Ink

Sony has published a new patent about a controller that can be completely personalized by a user, including its shape and layout.

TFJWM30d ago

It is just a patent if it is new tech you file it

S2Killinit30d ago (Edited 30d ago )

Dont get me wrong, I love that Sony does these research into new tech and all, after all it led to something as fun as the Dualsense, but im just asking why this particular tech would be useful in any way.

Profchaos30d ago (Edited 30d ago )

Interesting idea likely something that will never actually be produced but Sony's simply securing the paten

Profchaos30d ago

Common practice really so many companies pattern troll because they either intend to make a product or just want to hold onto the rights of the idea there's some insane ones out there especially at the dawn of the internet.

You can have no intent to use it but this is just saying you thought of it first

kylegeorge8830d ago

yeah no, the controllers need the hall effect before investing more time and money into quirks.

BlackDoomAx30d ago

But how will they sell as many controllers if they do that?

fsfsxii30d ago

Maybe consider your personal hygiene before blaming someone else for your controller defecting

DustMan30d ago

I doubt @FSFSXII even knows what hall effect is. What a turd.

y2mate30d ago

great idea, but will it fully distributed to other continent ?