A woman plays the ASTRO BOT Rescue Mission on the Playstation VR screen at the Sony Showcase at the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES 2019 in Las Vegas on January 9, 2019.
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Sony She announced new details about her next-generation virtual reality headset and scoffed at what the experience would be like in a demo of the upcoming PlayStation game.
At a CES technology event in Las Vegas, Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan confirmed that his new hardware will be called the PlayStation VR2, replacing its predecessor PS VR. The headset will work with Sony’s PlayStation 5 console, released in late 2020.
The PS VR2 will come with an OLED display that supports 4K resolution, as well as a new controller called PS VR2 Sense, according to blog post Posted by Sony on Tuesday. It will connect to the PS5 via a single wire.
The system will also have eye-tracking technology that affects how the player interacts with the game, and an integrated motor with vibrations to create feedback in the headset.
While Sony hasn’t revealed what its new headset will look like, the company took an early look at the game’s experience, showing a trailer for a new game called Horizon: Call of the Mountain.
The game takes place in the same universe as Sony’s hit action game Horizon, which sees players battling dinosaur-like machines in a post-apocalyptic world.
The series started with Horizon Zero Dawn in 2017, and Sony is set to release a sequel called Horizon Forbidden West next month.
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Sony’s PS VR2 hardware launch comes especially at a time as a parent company on Facebook died Others are trying to capitalize on a buzzing new trend in technology – the “metaverse”. It’s a kind of shared virtual experience where users can work, play and interact with each other. Many iterations of the metaverse incorporate virtual reality technology.
The Meta brand was renamed Facebook last year into a hub for the metaverse. The Oculus Quest 2 VR headset was a popular holiday gift, with the main Oculus app topping the Apple App Store rankings on Christmas Day.
However, some experts are concerned about how safe will the metaverse be. Most VR systems do not have parental controls and apps like VRChat are riddled with abuse.
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