At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Sony introduced a new concept of future immersive entertainment that aims to provide attendees with a new interactive experience.
Although only at a conceptual level at this point, a live demo allowed attendees to enter the world of The Last of Us and see it from a different perspective.
The experience essentially comprises a storage room where every surface is a high-resolution crystal LED screen, surrounding you on all sides by the game world. This, combined with immersive audio, haptic feedback, atmospheres and “smells” ”, aims to place you in an interactive environment more deeply than before. Yes, this means you will be able to feel the game you are playing.
In a gameplay sequence seemingly designed just for this proof of concept, participants are given a weapon controller and aim and fire at incoming threats like Clickers. We’d be willing to bet they smell absolutely foul.
This is not a new product or service out of the box, and it will likely be a long time before it is ready for mass consumption. We might see this sort of thing pop up in theme parks or maybe arcades, but obviously given the space and technology required, it’s going to be an expensive endeavor if they take it any further.
What do you think of this conceptual technology from Sony? Would you be interested in immersing yourself in a game in this way? Discuss it in the comments section below.
