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One idea is dominating this year's Game Developers Conference: virtual reality. From Treadmills to bodysuits, from guns to games, the emerging VR ecosystem is vast--and growing.

At this year's Game Developers Conference, currently underway in San Francisco, one idea has dominated the field: virtual reality.

Could the tech's time truly, finally, be here?

On Tuesday night, at a Sony session on the "future of innovation at Sony Computer Entertainment," Sony researcher Richard Marks and Sony Computer Entertainment president of Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida revealed the existence of a new prototype VR headset for the PlayStation 4, called Project Morpheus. Using the existing PlayStation Eye camera for positional tracking and the PlayStation Move for 3-D motion controls, the current Morpheus prototype has specs on par with other VR headsets: 1080p screen, 90 degree field of view, and head-tracking at 1000hz. The price and release date of the new model were not yet released.