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The name Ken Kutaragi is of import to video game history: he founded Sony'southward game sectionalization in 1993 and led the creation of the first PlayStation panel. He's since left Sony, and he doesn't approve of its recent ventures into virtual reality.

Speaking to Bloomberg, Kutaragi explained that he believes virtual reality and the metaverse lead to division. "Beingness in the real world is very of import, but the metaverse is about making quasi-existent in the virtual world, and I tin can't meet the point of doing information technology," he said. "Headsets would isolate you lot from the real world, and I can't agree with that." Don't expect to see Kutaragi sitting in a coming together in Facebook's metaverse anytime soon.

That'due south not to say that he doesn't see a future that fuses applied science with human interaction, withal. He is currently the CEO of Rise Robotics, Inc., a company focused on artificial intelligence. Ascent'southward goal is to create devices that "help transform real-globe objects into calculator-readable data," according to Bloomberg. Kutaragi'southward point about how VR separates you from the "real globe" still stands, though. His current work is about accentuating the real world with AI engineering, not stepping into a virtual world that'south distinctly unlike from our own.

Of grade, current-day PlayStation is however very much on the VR path. The PlayStation VR 2 was officially named at the get-go of the year, and the new headset will comprise new features like eye tracking and haptic feedback. Horizon Call of the Mountain was also appear aslope the new headset. Information technology's gear up in the aforementioned world as Zero Dawn and Forbidden West, but information technology'll star a different lead character from Aloy.