Hundreds Of Devs Working On Morpheus

If you’re eagerly waiting for Sony‘s Virtual Reality device, Project Morpheus, you may be happy to know that hundreds of developers all over the world already have a development kit and are working on making their games work with it. Adam Boyes, VP of Publisher & Development Relations at Sony Computer Entertainment America, said as much in an interview with Gamasutra; he also added that Sony received “extremely positive feedback” after the reveal at GDC 2014 in San Francisco.

I’m not sure exactly. Over 100, hundreds right now, all over the world? After we showed it at GDC, we were cautiously optimistic, but the feedback after GDC was extremely positive. So our goal is to make sure people who are really interested in it and want to make something and bring it out on PlayStation, then we can help them out on that.

While the development kits are obviously not infinite in number, it looks like Sony is trying to give them to every developer which is really interested in the device, and many demos were already prepared in return.

Our goal is to try to get developers who are interested access to the hardware so they can try it out and mess around with it. Obviously, there is a finite number of development kits. So we always tell developers to reach out if you’re interested, then we’ll sort of get you in the process of getting you one. There’s been a lot of demos that people have come in to show us. Especially if they’re working on a game that’s in Unity or Unreal, it’s really easy for them to bring them over because they’re PS4-friendly. Morpheus is also working in a PC development environments as well.

There’s no word on when Project Morpheus will be available commercially, but we expect to hear a lot more in the future and hopefully try it for ourselves during Gamescom, so stay tuned.