According to Gematsu, the project uses a next-generation computing system called the Cognitive System which will reportedly support human decision making. Now it’s been confirming that Sword Art Online is indeed coming to VR.
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Sword Art Online is a fictional virtual reality MMO game that was formed on the basis of a popular series of Japanese light novels and an anime series of the same name. There is extremely little there is known about the project at the current time with more announcements due to be made between March 18 and March 20, when there will be a Tokyo-based event on the theme. Would you sign up to alpha test this? The only way for players to be free of their VR prison to is to defeat the game’s final boss, with the catch being that if a player dies in the game, they die in real life as well when their VR headset fries their brain.
The Beginning is expected to ditch the need of using a controller as the player will be able to interact with the game by moving their body. Something similar to the NerveGear VR from the anime show is still going to take a while to become reality; years the very least.
Now there is still no word about whether it’s a full game or just a technical test. Anyway, this new project is really attractive to me.
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Reki Kawahara, author of the Sword Art Online series, calls the initiative “completely different from any game experience so far”.
