Talk Playstation 3 News

Anand Agarwal, Product Manager, Peripherals has posted on the Playstation.Blog about the official bluetooth headset for the Playstation 3. The headset will be offered in one retail version of Socom Confrontation this October. There will also be a standalone peripheral this fall.

It features a prominent Mute button and a Charging Cradle. It will work with not only your PS3 but with Bluetooth enabled cell phones.

Below are the keypoints.

• 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.

The standalone headset will cost $49.99 and bundled with Socom Confrontation will cost $59.99.

The official Socom headset has been revealed and here are the pics below. The Blu-ray version of Socom Confrontation will include a Blurooth headset. The design of this Bluetooth headset is much more classier and this one is made specially for gaming. It even has the official Playstation logo and branding on. You will be able to buy this headset seperately from the game – you won’t need to buy SOCOM to get the headset. It is designed for long term use and has a mute button. The headset will also include a USB cradle so you can charge it via the PS3.