10 Awesome Features In Upcoming Video Games We Can't Wait To Use
1. Eye Tracking - The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR
The recently released PlayStation VR2 marks a major technological leap forward from the clunky first generation of Sony's virtual reality headset, and one of its most talked-up features is the addition of eye tracking technology.
Eye tracking can be used to allow players to quickly navigate menus by looking around while wearing the headset, but is also being put to considerably more creative use in the upcoming horror game The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR.
A spiritual successor to 2016's PSVR game Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, the rail shooter will use eye tracking to enhance its already palpable horror, by featuring terrifying mannequin enemies which can only move when you blink.
One of the game's levels even has a door with the words "Don't blink" written on it in blood, ensuring players' ocular willpower will be put to a sweaty-palmed test.
Developers Supermassive Games have also stated that eye tracking will be used in other unique ways throughout the game to heighten the tension, though the full extent evidently won't be known until its March 16 release.