PlayStation VR Is Out Now

Today is the day that PlayStation VR is released around the world, bringing the experience of Virtual Reality to reality for over 40 million PlayStation 4 owners.

“We are incredibly excited to bring virtual reality to PlayStation 4,” said Jim Ryan, President of Global Sales and Marketing, SIE and President of SIEE. “PSVR puts the player right in the centre of the action, immersing them in extraordinary new worlds. PS VR is a milestone in home entertainment and it very much needs to be experienced to be believed.”

PlayStation VR delivers a sense of presence, where feel as though they are players physically inside the virtual world of a game. PlayStation VR leverages state-of-the-art technologies, such as 360 degree head tracking, wide field of view, high refresh rates, and SIE’s own binaural 3D audio technology, to heighten the emotions gamers experience as they play and make them believe they’ve been transported to another world.  By using peripherals such as PlayStation Move Motion Controller, Dualshock 4 Wireless Controller and the upcoming PlayStation VR Aim Controller, players can explore virtual environments and intuitively interact with characters as if they are actually present in the world of a game.

Michael Ephraim, Managing Director, Sony Interactive Entertainment Australia and New Zealand commented on the launch: “With today’s introduction of PlayStation VR, we are embarking on the biggest step change in gaming and entertainment innovation that the industry has seen.
PlayStation fans have always had a tremendous appetite for immersive, accessible and social entertainment and our ambition is to deliver on fulfilling their needs.  With PlayStation VR, players can now live these experiences with their family and friends in lounge rooms across Australia.  The future of play has most certainly arrived.”

PlayStation VR will launch with a large and diverse lineup of first- and third-party games including EVE: Valkyrie (CCP Games), Thumper (Drool), 100ft Robot Golf (No Goblin), Job Simulator (Owlchemy Games), Superhypercube (Polytron), Battlezone (Rebellion), Eagle Flight (Ubisoft), Here They Lie™, PlayStation®VR WORLDS and Until Dawn™: Rush of Blood (Sony Interactive Entertainment).