Sony is finally issuing an official Bluetooth headset - better late than never.
The headset will come with SOCOM: Confrontation ($60) in October and as a stand-alone ($50)unit a few weeks later (no exact date given). Get the SOCOM package and save a couple of bucks we say.
It looks good, nothing special and it's kind of big but you need a good battery life for this if you're going to be tearing it up all weekend long.
We wish they would come out with a full headset, two cans and a mic because we don't know about you, but we can't play the PS3 with the TV on so something like this is pretty useless for us and we're guessing many of you too.
Still, it looks OK.
From Sony:
The headset will feature “High-Quality (HQ) mode” with PS3. In this mode, the headset will take advantage of advanced voice technologies and noise cancellation techniques to provide clear and wideband voice input to the PS3. The HQ mode will ensure a much better voice chat quality on the PS3.
HQ mode will also enable accurate speech recognition required to support or enhance ‘Voice Command’ and ‘Voice Animation’ features. Voice Command was originally used in SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs for PS2 to administer the AI-controlled teammates using the WHO, WHAT, and WHERE format (example: Bravo, Attack, Nav Point Zulu). Voice Animation refers to the in-game character mimicking you during voice chat. With HQ mode, these features can be enabled on a much larger vocabulary in select PS3 games.
PS3 will display an in-game status indicator exclusively for this headset that will show the headset’s connection status, battery charge level, speaker volume level and microphone mute status.
Tired of wearing the headset during a long multiplayer gaming session or is your headset battery running out of charge? Just dock the headset in the supplied charging cradle, and the headset will work as a desktop microphone while charging.
Last but not least, the headset will automatically pair with the PS3 by connecting with a USB cable.
I agree, I play with headphones too so I'm a bit disappointed too. I guess we could use this as a desktop mic but that's hard when you're on the couch.
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