Virtual Reality har kommet for å bli, og senere denne høsten blir VR hakket mer tilgjengelig for folk flest. Takket være Playstation VR-brillene deres fjerner nemlig Sony behovet for å ha en nokså kraftig PC når du skal spille VR-spill (alt man trenger er en PS4-konsoll ved siden av selve brillene), noe som reduserer prislappen.
Dette ser EA-sjef Andrew Wilson som et stort sted i riktig retning, og som de fleste andre i spillbransjen er han begeistret for hva VR kan tilføre både dataspill og teknologibransjen generelt.
Under et finansmøte med selskapets investorer (som er gjengitt her) ble nemlig Playstation VR nevnt flere ganger, og Wilson ser ikke ut til å dele bekymringene til kritikerne som hevder at PS4 ikke er kraftig nok til å takle skikkelig VR. Samtidig hører det til historien at EA selv lager et PSVR-spill som de selvsagt ønsker å snakke positivt om.
Les et utdrag fra Wilsons VR-kommentarer nder møtet her:
- Yes, so on PlayStation VR, again, we're very excited about this. I think to your point, given its price point and modality of play, it's one of the more accessible forms of virtually reality play right now. We've got a great experience coming later in the year that I played, and it's super fun and super exciting.
I think that part of the reason people play games is to kind of immerse themselves in a fantasy and escape and fulfill these fantasies with their friends. Now, typically, when we design games, we design them on a big screen TV and we have to overcome, as designers, this spatial disconnect between us and the television.
Of course, virtual reality, we don't have to overcome that spatial disconnect. So the more that we can introduce people to low-barrier-to-entry virtual reality, I think the faster it's going to take off as an industry. And so us as a company, we're looking at how we can invest across all elements of the spectrum, from kind of the mobile element right up to the high-end elements. And PlayStation VR I think is going to be a great step in the evolution of our industry and the evolution of how people play games. And we're going to continue to invest there.
Playstation VR akommer de norske butikkene den 13. oktober.