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Re:Sony announces Project Morpheus, a virtual reality headse... by comex on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @12:03AM (#7426755)
Which is arguably what they'd say no matter what they thought. Not that Oculus doesn't have a lot going for it, but as a startup I'd be nervous to see a much larger company that makes both a game console and display technology push their own alternative.

But I guess there is not much lock-in effect - except for the current Oculus SDK, so hopefully games will start using a platform neutral one soon - and the market is potentially huge, so competition can also have a lot of pros.

Re:Sony announces Project Morpheus, a virtual reality headse... by lucian1900 on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @05:58AM (#7427583)
I don't think there's much overlap.

Sony's VR will be PS4-only for a long time, perhaps forever.

The Oculus will be disallowed from the PS4 by Sony, probably forever.

Re:Sony announces Project Morpheus, a virtual reality headse... by sixQuarks on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @01:08AM (#7426938)
Honestly, I don't think they're really worried about the competition. They have Jon Carmack, enough said.
Re:Sony announces Project Morpheus, a virtual reality headse... by cma on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @12:28AM (#7426812)
The Oculus SDK is open-source, so it wouldn't be too hard.