Article 1ZBF8 The month in games: PlayStation Virtual Reality is here!

The month in games: PlayStation Virtual Reality is here!

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Nick Gillett
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Playstation goes fully immersive, offering up sharks, superheroes - and some queasiness, plus a VR Batman, Loading Human and the Lego A-Team

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Last week saw the arrival of the world's least bank-breaking virtual reality headset, PlayStation VR (349). To use it you'll need a PlayStation 4 (299) and a PS Eye Camera (44.99), which - while not exactly cheap - is less exorbitant than buying a PC-based set-up. The technology itself uses a camera at the front of the room to track head movements, presenting its alternative view of the world via a very small screen mounted in front of each eye. Despite PSVR's slightly fuzzier visuals, the feeling of being somewhere you're not is extraordinarily convincing, if sometimes disorientating.

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