PlayStation VR Is Coming To Take Over Your Life This October

You’ve been enjoying physical reality all your life - or have you? - but are you ready to try virtual reality on for size?

Sony officially unveiled the (rough) release date and pricing of PlayStation VR at a Games Developers Conference event in San Francisco today, The Australian reports.

The gamechanger – pun! – will be released in Australia, Asia, New Zealand, Japan, North America and Europe this October.

Local pricing is $AU549.95, which will include your virtual reality headset and accompanying cables but not, as Kotaku notes, the required PlayStation camera or the recommended ‘move’ controllers. So, all up, you might be looking at $AU650 to $AU700 for the enhanced experience of living inside your games, Tron-style.

Here’s one guaranteed sensation PlayStation VR is certain to provide: the feeling of a lightened wallet.

By the time of its release, there will be more than 50 virtual reality games available (and more on the horizon).

Here are the specs of PlayStation VR, should they mean anything to you:

Display: OLED

Screen Side: 5.7”

Resolution: 1920 x RGB x 1080 (960 x RGB x 1080 per eye)

Refresh Rate: 120 Hz, 90Hz

Sensors: 360 Degree Tracking / 9 LEDs

Field of view: Approximately 100 degrees

Latency: Less than 18ms

Controller: DUALSHOCK 4 and PS Move

You can now pre-order PlayStation VR. In the meantime, you’ll just have to make do with boring old regular physical interactions like eating, human touch, etc.

Photo: Sony.