Sony takes the wraps off its PlayStation VR gaming headset

Sony took the wraps off its PlayStation VR headset at a GDC session in San Francisco Tuesday evening. All those rumors about Sony working on a virtual reality headset to compete with Oculus Rift were correct: Sony boss Shuhei Yoshidafinally revealed the product this evening — it’s officially codenamed Project Morpheus — during a GDC session titled “Driving the Future of Innovation at Sony Computer Entertainment.” The future looks…well, like a lot of futures involving virtual reality have been looking since the notion took wing in the 1980s: you put something on your head, in most cases something that looks like a helmet or a really bulky pair of glasses, and motion sensors in the headset track your cranium’s movement to present the visual illusion (with varying degrees of fidelity) of being somewhere else.