Sony working on ‘social experiences’ for Project Morpheus
Sony are looking to incorporate social experiences in Project Morpheus when the virtual reality headset releases. The London studio of Sony Computing Entertainment revealed to Digital Spy that the developer had been working on games that will involve multiple people in the virtual reality experience. Studio director Dave Ranyard said that their experience in producing games such as SingStar, The Playroom and EyeToy Play, gives them a unique chance to create games that have a strong social aspect, with the developer having already demonstrated two prototypes. “[Social games are] something we really want to bring to VR,” he said. “We made the EyeToy games, like EyeToy Play… and there was a point with those, before they were released, when the team realised actually we like watching people do this is almost as fun as doing it. Having that social screen is really important to us. There’s actually quite a lot you can do with that. We’ve been doing lots of companion apps as well – you can interact, you can