{"id":22469,"date":"2016-02-21T00:45:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T08:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/playstation-vr-will-launch-in-fall-2016-says-gamestop-ceo-during-live-tv-interview"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:51:57","slug":"playstation-vr-will-launch-in-fall-2016-says-gamestop-ceo-during-live-tv-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/playstation-vr-will-launch-in-fall-2016-says-gamestop-ceo-during-live-tv-interview","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation VR Will Launch In Fall 2016, Says GameStop CEO During Live TV Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VdyIkzxQIsY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s looking like 2016 will be the year virtual reality <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/say-hello-to-the-final-oculus-rift-coming-2016-1702487604\">hits the mainstream<\/a> now that Oculus Rift is on the brink of shipping and Google Cardboard is into the millions of units sold. Now, we finally know when Sony is releasing its new VR headset too. GameStop CEO Paul Raines<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VdyIkzxQIsY&feature=youtu.be&t=2m40s\" target=\"_blank\"> revealed<\/a> the PlayStation VR will launch in the third quarter of this year during a live television interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will launch the Sony product this fall,\u201d said Raines, \u201cand we\u2019re in discussions with the other two players.\u201d Shortly after blurting out the PlayStation VR release date, Raines redirected the conversation to GameStop\u2019s dominance in gaming hardware sales. To watch the flub, jump to the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VdyIkzxQIsY?t=2m40s\" target=\"_blank\">2:40 mark<\/a> in the clip below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/playstation-vr-will-launch-in-fall-2016-says-gamestop-1759413863\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s looking like 2016 will be the year virtual reality hits the mainstream now that Oculus Rift is on the brink of shipping and Google Cardboard is into the millions of units sold. Now, we finally know when Sony is releasing its new VR headset too. GameStop CEO Paul Raines revealed the PlayStation VR will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62752,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22469\/revisions\/62752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}