Spectator mode has a future in VR, according to Sony’s Richard Marks. The thing was first explored at PlayStation Experience, where PlayStation VR had a “hardware failure” and the presentation wasn’t as good as intended, but Sony “excited to explore the possibilities of spectator view. This person (who is spectating) can move around the camera and do anything they want. Spectating in VR has a lot of future.”

“This thing we worked on was called Disc Battle, the whole idea we learned about was this stage set up that we had at the PlayStation Experience. Hopefully none of you were there! (laughs) because it didn’t quite go the way it was expected to go. The hardware had a failure.”

Overall, Marks took some time at the AR/VR Vision Summit to explain his view about spectating things in virtual reality. And what he said was pretty interesting:

“So basically, two people on each side and each of them are going to be in VR and in the center we had another screen like the social screen would be. They could get the spectator view and then on one side we are going to show the first person view like most VR is but first person is hard to get the same feeling so we made this third person, over the shoulder view and it actually feels good as the person in VR to see themselves that way.”

PlayStation VR is expected to release in the first half of 2016.