How PlayStation VR’s Richard Marks sees VR as social and shareable

Virtual reality has a reputation as being anti-social and isolating, but one of the brains responsible for Sony’s move into VR thinks that putting a headset on can bring people together.

In October, Sony Interactive Entertainment will launch the PlayStation VR headset for the PS4, and lead researcher Richard Marks said onstage at GamesBeat 2016 that he expects that to have a positive effect on how people interact with one another. He points out that a lot of early games are for solo players because that’s easier to build, but Sony and other developers are already working on multiplayer experiences. That includes The Playroom VR, which is a multiplayer game in which several players can interact with at once with only a single PSVR headset.