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hi I'm Scott Steiner at e3 2014 and I'm back with project Morpheus Sony's virtual reality headset was demonstrated back in the spring and it's here again at the show with new games and demos there's a castle demo there's a luge demo and there's actually a a Valkyrie playable here as well three different experiences one is in a full recline and some of them have you fighting at dragons all sorts of experiences and I'm going to be trying it out for the first time and there's no release date targeted for project Morpheus it's still a project but the headset and the move controllers all that stuff really is is ready to go right now and it's a very immersive experience and works with PlayStation 4 so here we go I'm an ego Montoya see you out they are not trying on a virtual reality headset so how do you communicate this what does it feel like it feels like it's coming at you but also the weapons have a lot of physics so I was able to see the mace swinging over my head a lot of accuracy with the crossbow is able to hold it up to my eye close one eye and aim through it to be able to shoot at things and you could bring the sword point right up to the knight and tickle his chin or decapitate him whatever you want to do so the sense of the world around you with those move controllers feels a lot more present than you know other types of VR like oculus that don't have those motion controllers in them yet there's also a Valkyrie which is a standard DualShock 4 controller and then you're looking around a space comment and using all those controls eval free shows how it could be more like a console experience and maybe how you take games like shooters and put them into virtual reality but all of them show that the position tracking is great and then there's Street luge where I was lying down flat and using my head to navigate as I was sliding under big tractor-trailer trucks and going through weeds to try to get to the finish line like a race each one really showed different ways you can move your head or control put yourself in different areas the most visceral for me was the street luge I could see my belly sitting here and I was shooting down the road and it felt like you were sliding out of control down you know country highway for my glasses it's really hard but the project morpheus design allows you to slide right on and work even with mega thick prescriptions like mine no date no pricing but project Morpheus is Sony's interesting experimental and very real virtual reality technology here at e3 2014 I'm Scott Steiner