One of the lesser known features of PlayStation VR will be its cinematic mode which in short can create your own personal cinema at home. The feature is designed to work with traditional PS4 titles and will be offered in three different sizes.
There are a trio of (simulated) viewing sizes: 117 inches, 163 inches and 226 inches. The translated post says that the default 163-inch size will encompass your entire field of view, while the gargantuan one will require you to move your head from side to side if you want to see everything at once. So, kind of like sitting in the front row of a movie theater. At the other end of the spectrum, the smallest size reorients the screen to your head movement. If you get tired while wearing the PSVR you can apparently lay down while wearing it and the display will match your horizontal perspective.
At E3 2016, Square Enix had plenty to talk about – most notably Final Fantasy XV, which is set to launch in just a few months’ time. For Square, a lot is riding on their game that’s now been a decade in development. Unsurprisingly, Final Fantasy VII didn’t make an appearance but that’s likely because the game is still early in development. This brings us to Kingdom Hearts 3, another no show game though unlike FF7, it’s a game that’s fast approaching the end of its development cycle. So why didn’t Square bring the highly anticipated game to E3?
Just yesterday, news spread that any game coming to PlayStation VR would support the PS4’s DualShock controller. This meant that even if a game was intended for use with PlayStation Move controllers or the new Aim Controller, you wouldn’t need any of those additional equipment to enjoy them. While ‘good for the consumers,’ the news never made much sense to me as it would be a limit on what developers could do. What if they’d created a medieval type game where one Move controller acted as your shield and the other as your sword? Now you’d also have to dumb down that experience to fit the DualShock 4 – in turn shifting how the game would play and feel.
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