WELCOME to another new year for VR and we’re kicking this year off strong with
CES2022 now official going on and we already have some exciting news. The official PSVR2
headset and controller specs are revealed plus an official Horizon VR game is coming. LIKE WOW.
Just the specs only, and no headset design reveal yet so this image is just a concept image..
But let’s talk about it!! I’m Cas, and this is your channel for free content about VR.
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So the PSVR2 specs are everything that we expected plus more. First,
the OFFICIAL names are revealed now, which will be (not so surprising) PlayStation VR2,
and the controller name is also new, it’s gonna be called the PlayStation VR2 Sense Controller.
Let’s start with the headset specs. It is an inside out tracking headset as expected
with 6 degrees of freedom. So it’ll track with 4 cameras integrated in the headset,
with these sensors. This means you don’t need that external camera anymore. The PSVR1 always
only had front facing tracking, so if you turned your back to the camera,
it’d lose tracking, forcing you to use artificial turning, which wasn’t very
immersive. SO I AM SO EXCITED for this. It’ll have 4K H D R !!! And OLED displays,
at 2000 x 2040 per eye. AND smooth frame rates of 90 plus 120Hz. Oh
yes, imagine what this’ll look like, omgs. Approximately 110 degrees field of view,
they do not specify whether this is horizontal or diagonal, though so
this remains to be measured. There is however an adjustable lens separation,
I guess this is an manual IPD adjustment, which is awesome since the first PSVR1
only had adjustment via software. But this is pretty cool and new info,
it also offers EYE tracking that will most likely be used for the foveated rendering,
which they also talked about. Which is gonna be great for devs as you’ll have better looking
games with less demanding specs needed. ALSO, by detecting what you’re looking at,
it’ll create an additional input for the game character. This gives devs a more
lifelike and probably an intuitive way to interact in the game. Sony says this will allow
for a heightened emotional response and enhanced expression that provide a new level of realism
in gaming. It is more and more clear now that eye tracking is the future of VR headsets.
This is also INTERESTING. The headset will have vibrational feedback? Like what? Is it going to
vibrate on my head? I quote: “Headset feedback is a new sensory feature
that amplifies the sensations of in-game actions from the player. It’s created by a single built-in
motor with vibrations that add an intelligent tactile element, bringing players closer to the
gameplay experience. For example, gamers can feel a character’s elevated pulse during tense moments,
the rush of objects passing close to the character’s head,
or the thrust of a vehicle as the character speeds forward. Additionally,
PS5’s Tempest 3D AudioTech makes sounds in the player’s surroundings come alive,
adding to this new level of immersion.” I guess it’ll vibrate on our heads! Leave me
a like if you think this is awesome too! However, the PSVR2 will have a cable,
a USB-C cable, and it’ll be a single cable now instead of the mess with the PSVR1.
I know some of you would have loved a wireless headset, but I honestly think this is a good step
forward for now for Sony until the tech is ready for wireless VR with high fidelity games.
And of course, it’ll have a built-in microphone and again,
a stero headphone jack, which probably means, you will to bring your own headphones.
Now on to the PSVR2 Sense Controllers. And it has been revealed that’ll look like this.
Great looking controllers, which all the usual PlayStation buttons… It looks ergonomic too.
It is tracked in 6DoF using infrared. Gonna be interesting to see what the tracking will be
like. The controllers also have a capacitive sensor with finger touch detection. So you
can probably do some finger gestures in-game too. Like most other motion controllers.
I’m mostly excited about the haptic feedback on the trigger controllers, the adaptive trigger.
This was announced before already, but before that I didn’t experience it yet but there are a
lot more PS5 games now that support it and it’s truly awesome. In Borderlands 3 for example,
I was able to feel what shooting different weapons felt like, some were super tough to press in and
some were a lot easier. It really does add another layer of immersion to the games.
These controllers also have a USB-C port to charge the built-in battery, and it communicates
wirelessly via Bluetooth 5. These were the specs but we’re not even done yet. Sony also
revealed their first exclusive PSVR2 game, which is going to be a spinoff of one of my favorites
Horizon Zero Dawn called Call of the Mountain. If you don’t know the game, it’s a open world
game where you have to survive in a beautiful post-apocalyptic world ruled by mechanical beasts.
I’ve finished the game, I loved it because of the combat feels so epic and satisfying. It had a
great story and it’s just one beautiful game. This was a very short teaser, so it doesn’t say a lot,
I’m not even sure if there will be any combat and stuff or if it even will be with Aloy,
the protagonist of the game as you’re heading a different voice here. But
uh… I hope so. The developer says it is to showcase what’s possible with the new PSVR so I’m
guessing it’s gonna be really good anyways. If you’d like to know more about the game btw,
I actually posted a gameplay video with a VR mod before. I’ll link it below.
So… no release dates yet but hopefully this year. I am SO EXCITED. I mean the PSVR1 released 5 years
ago already so a new gen headset is gonna be amazing for the VR industry. Of course,
one of the most exciting things about Sony still in VR is that they have some of the best exclusive
content. While I don’t always like exclusive content, Sony has a lot of triple A developers
making games for them, and more content by triple A developers is always good for the VR industry.
Plus usually, when content is exclusive on PSVR, it’ll come out on PC VR later on too.
Man, it’s like 7 am over here. I woke up at 6 because I had to do some trading and
I was going to go to sleep afterward but I read this news (THANKS to Jonathan btw for tagging me
in it) and I couldn’t sleep anymore. *Sigh* Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this quick update.
Smash that like button if you appreciate me coming at you as soon as possible and see you in the next
video. A special thanks go to all our Champions, especially these ones here. As always, VR on!