Can you feel it...taste it...smell it? The PlayStation VR train is getting tuned up and ready. We are at the 45 day mark at the time of blog and honestly it has been a long time since Project Morpheus was announced on March 18, 2014.
On September 15, 2015, it was announced that Project Morpheus would be officially named PlayStation VR.
On October 8, 2015, Sony acquired SoftKinetic, a tech startup whose focus includes visual depth-sensing gesture recognition.
On November 2, 2015, Sony confirmed that they were still aiming for a release in the first half of 2016 (this was pushed back due to making sure they had the games and experiences to launch with PSVR).
On March 15, 2016, at the Game Developers Conference, Sony confirmed the release date will be in October 2016 with the price tag of $399 and $499 for the mega bundle.
On June 15, 2016, Sony confirmed that the PlayStation VR headset will launch on Oct 13, 2016
Preorders that started in March were the fast selling hardware pre-orders at Gamestop ever. Sony opened up a second wave and within about 4 - 8 minutes it sold out. I love it when people on the mighty Internet will down play and throw out their comments that it will fail. Either they haven't tried it, they tried and because they didn't pre-order when they had the chance and now that it is sold out they cannot get one so they continue to have a negative attitude about it or it may simply they cannot get one when it comes out. Sure there are demos at Best buy and Gamestop (click the link to find one near you).
All I know ever since seeing movies like these among others...
Allowed me to think and with a smile...some day...some day.
But let's go back if we will to probably what really started the ideas flowing and wouldn't be cool if this happens. There was a movie called The Lawnmower Man and if you have never seen it, I would totally recommend it. Even though it came out in 1992, if you have a chance watch it...not for the acting...not for the graphics...but for the concept.
But turn back some time and we have one movie that started it and that was Tron. Even back in the 1982 this movie flipped it. What if we were in the game trying to survive?
But when Tron Legacy came out in 2010 it just rekindled that thought about that this will happen.
I knew one day even though VR has been attempted in the past such as The Nintendo Virtual Boy which was released on July 21, 1995 and discontinued the same year on December 22, 1995. Why? Well anyone who had one ( I had one) will tell you was because it made you sick and gave you headaches. It wasn't that the unit itself was bad per say, but the red and black colors of all the games is what made your eyes water and your head started to hurt.
But when Tron came out and in the movie that had tanks and seeing that at that time was really amazing...
Now let's move a little to the present which who knows what could happen with this series, we have Battlezone coming out on PSVR on Day 1...October 13, 2016.
All I know is come October 13th, 2016 when I get my PlayStation VR and Battlezone I will be streaming music while play and listening to
It just goes to show what the thought of maybe one day to the idea of what if to how you truly imagined it to be and is finally being available for you to experience.
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