Sony has announced that it will be hosting a panel at the annual Game Developers Conference later this month to discuss "innovation at PlayStation" and the "future of gaming." The session will be led by none other than Shuhei Yoshida, President of Worldwide Studios at Sony Computer Entertainment and two key members of SCEA's research and development team: Senior Director, Richard Marks and Senior Software Engineer, Anton Mikhailov.

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The news comes just a few short weeks after reports first began to circulate about Sony's plans to reveal its forthcoming virtual reality headset for the PS4 at the conference. Rumors of Sony's plans to enter the VR fray first hit in September of last year, after sources claimed that the company had abandoned plans to unveil the device at Gamescom at the last minute.It's also worth noting that both Marks and Mikhailov played integral roles in the development of the PlayStation Move and PS Eye for the PS3.Could we finally see Sony's answer to the Oculus Rift later this month? Sound off in the comments below.

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