Could Disney Infinity Be Heading For HoloLens Or Morpheus

Following E3, there is still plenty of excitement over the future of video games with Virtual Reality with Sony’s Morpheus and Microsoft’s HoloLens and according to a report over at Engadget, Disney is looking at how they could be included in these new exciting projects, including bringing Disney Infinity.

VP of production at Disney Interactive, John Vignocchi confirmed that “We’ve had multiple meetings and discussions with Oculus, multiple meetings and discussions with Sony about Morpheus, multiple meetings and discussions with Microsoft about HoloLens. We’re very interested in that space,” Vignocchi Added. “There’s the socialization problem right now with VR, but augmented reality is very exciting.”

However, Disney Interactive’s John Blackburn said “My own experience with these devices right now is that I feel like they almost cut directly against what we’re trying to do, which is experiences that can involve you with somebody else,” Blackburn said. “The idea of kind of creating that family memory and playing it together is really core to the experience we’re trying to build. And so when you put a lot of these headsets on, it’s almost isolating in a way. Until we can get over that piece of the technology, it’s not as interesting to me.”

He later added “You kind of look at Microsoft’s HoloLens stuff where you can kind of see through,” said Blackburn. “And that one’s kind of interesting from that perspective because I can see everybody else around me. But yes, we’re absolutely interested in that space because the Toy Box itself is kind of a very interesting concept of ‘I’m in the world I built.’

There is a lot of discussion about Virtual/Augmented Reality and if it will change video games or just become another short term gimmick, it is interesting to know that Disney Interactive are investigating if this is possible and how Disney Infinity could evolve.

What do you think?