Sony's VR headset, still know under its codename Project Morpheus, was revealed a few years after the current virtual reality wave (led by Oculus Rift) was set in motion.
This has prompted quite a few people to regard Project Morpheus as an effort to cash in on the trend, but according to Sony Computer Entertainment America CEO Shawn Layden, Project Morpheus is a whole lot more than a gaming accessory or a peripheral they threw together.
In fact, Project Morpheus should be regarded as an entirely new platform:
"VR for us, it's not a peripheral. It's not a, ‘here's the latest way to interact with the game' thing", Layden told Forbes. "It's a platform. It has the ability to impact gaming the same way that smart phones [changed] cell phones... before it was ‘I can talk to a person, I can text a person, what more do I need?' But then the smart phone came out and it's like, wow, I can do all that in my hand? I think Morpheus is going to have a similar impact on gaming or entertainment consumption".
Do you have faith in VR technology, or are Sony and the other front runners fooling themselves to think everyone will sit around with enclosed headsets in front of their faces?