Sony and Oculus Have Worked Together to Make Sure VR Takes Off

20th June, 0 replies

Sony and Oculus have helped each other out to make sure that virtual reality technology is as good as possible.

"We know each other very well," Yoshida said when asked how well they know the people from Oculus. "Brendan [Iribe, the CEO of Oculus] used to work at Gaikai. Palmer [Luckey, the founder of Oculus], before he started the Kickstarter, we knew him. So we share the same understanding that when a company like ours makes efforts, commercial efforts, as a well-funded company with commercial backing, and they are now as well with Facebook backing."

The last thing either company wanted to happen was for another company to introduce a mediocre VR headset to the market.

"We have to make sure that system is super good, because the worse thing, and Palmer always said that the worst thing that could happen to VR is that some big company comes up with some mid-quality system and muddy the water. He was actually talking about us. He was talking to us," said Yoshida.

"When we were talking at GDC we always invite each other to demos and exchange opinions and we were laughing, because [Luckey] was very happy to try this year's Morpheus. I was like, 'oh yeah we passed the Palmer test. We almost passed the John Carmack test and the Mike Abrash test.'

"They are looking like 'hmm, you can reduce a little bit more latency.' But that was March, so our teams are still making improvements. So we are working well together from a global standpoint to advance VR and bring VR to consumers."

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