Sony Takes a Trip to 1995, Comes Back With 3D Virtual Headset
Causes motion sickness.
Sony will no doubt get a call from 1995 later today asking for its rejected technology back. The tech company, in its never-ending quest to bring 3D to the mainstream, will be launching a stereoscopic visor in Japan this November.
I know what you're thinking. It looks like a space-age Virtual Boy, Nintendo's headache-inducing goggles that never saw the light of day outside of Japan. Sony's as-yet nameless device (although it'll probably have some ridiculous serial number) will have two 720p OLED screens that can output 2D and 3D images straight to your eyeballs.
It'll sell for 60,000 yen - around £480 - but Sony warns that the headset should not be used by children under 15 years old and that sudden movements could result in motion sickness.
Sony Worldwide Studios executive Mick Hocking recently bigged up the device, saying that a headset would finally allow entertainment producers to provide the experiences that was promised in the 1980s.
"Being in a virtual world where I can see my virtual hands or a virtual gun with all the things we can do in the gaming world is going to be absolutely amazing," he said. But at what queasy price, Mr. Hocking? What queasy price?
What do you make of all of this? Let us know in the forum below.
I know what you're thinking. It looks like a space-age Virtual Boy, Nintendo's headache-inducing goggles that never saw the light of day outside of Japan. Sony's as-yet nameless device (although it'll probably have some ridiculous serial number) will have two 720p OLED screens that can output 2D and 3D images straight to your eyeballs.
It'll sell for 60,000 yen - around £480 - but Sony warns that the headset should not be used by children under 15 years old and that sudden movements could result in motion sickness.
Sony Worldwide Studios executive Mick Hocking recently bigged up the device, saying that a headset would finally allow entertainment producers to provide the experiences that was promised in the 1980s.
"Being in a virtual world where I can see my virtual hands or a virtual gun with all the things we can do in the gaming world is going to be absolutely amazing," he said. But at what queasy price, Mr. Hocking? What queasy price?
What do you make of all of this? Let us know in the forum below.
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SPInGSPOnG 1 Sep 2011 05:40
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OLED screens that can output 2D and 3D images
Stricly speaking, these screens cannot output 2D or 3D images. They can just output 2D images. Either they are the same, and perceived as 2D or they are slightly different, and perceived as 3D. But the unit can only output 2D images.