Summer Lesson was announced on September 1, 2014 as a tech demonstration making use of the virtual reality technology under development by Sony Computer Entertainment, which was then called "Project Morpheus".

[2][3] While expected to appear at the 2014 Tokyo Game Show, it was eventually pulled because there were not enough Project Morpheus demo units with Summer Lesson available for enough people to try them out.

[4] Motion capture was used for the character movements in the game, although the recording was done with a headset instead of a traditional "filming set".

[10] Summer Lesson was released on the same day as the PlayStation VR (Project Morpheus) accessory in late 2016 in Japan.

An English language subtitled version was released in Southeast Asian territories such as Singapore and Malaysia in 2017.