That’s Nathan Drake rendered in full 1080p glory, using the power of our PS4 engine. All footage you see in the trailer was captured completely in engine. We’re targeting 60fps for Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, and as you can see, the visual fidelity for our character models will reach new heights. In fact, thanks to the power of PS4, right now Drake’s Uncharted 4 model is over double the polygons of Joel from The Last of Us PS3.

The next generation of Nathan Drake is going to be very real and will explore what it means when Drake is forced back into the world of thieves. He will embark on a globe-trotting journey in pursuit of a historical conspiracy behind a fabled pirate treasure. It’s his greatest adventure yet and will test his physical limits, his resolve, and ultimately what he’s willing to sacrifice to save the ones he loves.

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is available for pre-order right now. Stay tuned — we’ll have more information in the coming months.

What will be shown? I’m not sure. Uncharted 4? Yes. The Order: 1886? Yes. DriveClub? Yes, but as for the rumors, you’ll just have to brace yourself. Find more details below, courtesy NeoGAF, and stay right here.

“I wish he bought ours,” Longworth joked. “All the folks at Oculus have got big smiles on today,” he added, referring to the news that Facebook’s Oculus acquisition was just cleared by the U.S. Department of Justice and FTC (via Reuters).

Longworth noted that Sony is still very much excited about the impending prospect of mass market VR. “If you think about VR, not just in terms of gaming, I think wearable technology is a huge trend that’s going to continue,” he predicted. “I think that being able to have experiences that are truly deep and immersive…that it somehow makes you feel you are there…is something that people want. If you could really deliver that in the future, that would be huge.”

Are you excited about the future of virtual reality? Share your thoughts in the comments.

Now, Valve’s former VR specialist Michael Abrash has joined Oculus as Chief Scientist Officer, and said in a statement that VR will be the platform to end all platforms. Lofty talk, to say the least.

“We’re on the cusp of what I think is not The Next Big Platform, but rather simply The Final Platform – the platform to end all platforms – and the path here has been so improbable that I can only shake my head,” Abrash wrote. He continued, “A lot of what it will take to make VR great is well understood at this point, so it’s engineering, not research; hard engineering, to be sure, but clearly within reach. For example, there are half a dozen things that could be done to display panels that would make them better for VR, none of them pie in the sky.”

Because of Facebook, Abrash said, “VR is going to happen in all its glory…I now fully expect to spend the rest of my career pushing VR as far ahead as I can.”

Abrash concluded, ”It feels like it did when I went to Id, but on steroids – this time we’re working on technology that will change not just computer gaming, but potentially how all of us interact with computers, information, and each other every day. I think it’s going to be the biggest game-changer I’ve ever seen”

So what do you guys think? Are you interested in VR? Let me know in the comments, and have a great weekend, everyone!