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this is my full review of the PSVR 2 PlayStation's a VR headset for the PS5 so I've been using it
over the last week playing games like Horizon call of the mountain and Gran Turismo 7 which
have looked incredible on this but I wanted to cover what I like a dislike and most importantly
if it's really worth buying today I'll talk about using it for gaming watching movies the motion
handling picture quality and comfort as well as some great features like the Cinematic mode and
that lets you watch and play content that isn't designed for VR on a massive virtual screen so
I hope this review is helpful today and answer some questions that you might have had but if I
have missed any just drop those below and I will try to get back to you now last week I did a full
unboxing on the channel along with the entire setup process but in summary it comes with the
headset two controllers some stereo earbuds and a USBC charging cable as for the setup process
is really straightforward PlayStation have done a great job of making it as effortless as possible
you just need to to plug the USB cable into the front of the PS5 run through the on-screen prompts
and within a matter of minutes the headset is up and running but if you want to see the full
setup process and the unboxing I'll have linked to that video below so let's talk about the picture
quality on this inside we get two OLED displays that support 4K HDR which means everything that
we see in VR looks sharp and vibrant I've tested a few different games out over the last week and
the one thing that I keep coming back to for that wow factor is Horizon call of the mountain
this game looks crazy clear and I've been truly Blown Away by how nice the visuals are including
the brightness and the clarity as well now I'm using a capture card today to show you how these
games look which is in fact a lower resolution to what you see inside the headset so it's one
of those that you have to see it to believe its scenario but the picture quality really
is impressive unlike with any OLED display there's no surprise that the black levels and the contrast
are almost perfect there's no blooming or washed out colors and it's still bright enough that you
probably won't run this at 100 brightness and as this seal around on the headset is tight there's
no light leaking through and distracting you then there's the field of view of 110 degrees
it makes playing the games feel immersive and does a great job of wrapping the content around
your head both vertically and horizontally you do notice a little bit of darkness in your peripheral
vision but that's only if you go looking for it and generally speaking you do forget about it once
you're playing when it comes to motion handling and the frame rate you'll be pleased to know that
it offers up to 120 hertz this means any game that supports this will be silky smooth and I've not
experienced any screen tearing or stuttering no matter how fast I move around and that leads me
onto motion sickness and how it can affect you while gaming for me it's had a zero impact I
can sit or stand move around or stand still it might sometimes feel a little trippy as you're
looking over the edge of a cliff but I definitely have not suffered from any motion sickness while
playing however my wife has tried it a few times and she has experienced it almost immediately
after putting it on now sitting down will vastly reduce it though where you don't need to worry
about trying to stand up straight as you're moving your character around but it obviously affects
everybody differently if you are concerned about motion sickness my advice would be to try one out
before buying now any VR headset will do is you could try a matter Quest For example it's a good
idea just to make sure you're not wasting your money on something that you cannot physically
use now when it does come to physically using it you might be concerned of how much space you need
around you well PlayStation recommends having a safe area of 2 meters by 2 meters and as it comes
with a 4.5 meter cable that should be no problem for most rooms but you can either use it sitting
or standing so you don't need a massive room to run around in just enough to wave your arms and
when you set it up for the first time you'll be prompted to map out your room this will take a
blueprint of your room and it works out where the safe areas are that you can walk to while you're
gaming you can then go ahead and edit this safe area by using the controllers to either add or
remove sections of your room so maybe the corner of a desk or a coffee table that it might have
failed to pick up now every game that I've tested I don't tend to walk around too much so as long
as you have a couple of feet around you enough to spread your arms out at least that should be
fine and if you're in the middle of a game and you are concerned about walking into something all you
need to do is tap the function button under the headset and it gives you an instant live feed of
your room this pass-through camera is a brilliant idea and it means you can check your surroundings
without needing to take the headset off and on each time then there's the option to sit down
and play so games like gt7 you're more likely to sit down rather than stand up while you're playing
this means space isn't an issue at all as you're only moving your head around and not your arms
or your body you could do this with other games too like the kayak game in fact pretty much every
game is suitable for sitting down if that's what you would prefer to do so let's talk about games
these are all of the games that PlayStation have announced that are either new to VR2 or have other
updates to make them compatible with VR I think this is a pretty decent lineup it's nowhere near
as impressive as the back catalog of games that we've got for the first gen which unfortunately
are not compatible with this one but it's a really good start at the moment I only have five games in
my library that are compatible with VR2 and these include Horizon call of the mountain grow around
Turismo 7 Moss book 1 and 2 and Star Wars Tales from the Galaxy's Edge now all of these games are
completely different from one another in terms of the genre and what they offer but they all
have one thing in common they look incredible on this headset Horizon call of the mountain
gives you that awesome first person experience of walking around and exploring climbing rocks
shooting arrows and warming your hands next to the fire and when you factor in the 3D audio
whether you're using the provided earbuds or your own headphones this game feels incredibly
immersive obviously some of this is novelty like eating an apple that you just picked up
playing with a tambourine that you found on the bench
maybe even smashing plates just because well you can
but it still brings an awesome immersive experience it is hard to show you through
this flat image then there's Moss book one and two which are fun little games and probably one
of the most popular games we've seen on VR so it was great to see that we've got an update
for PSVR 2 as this will be a brilliant game for many first-time VR users to try out but the game
that got me the most excited about testing out and one of the reasons I held off making this review
in the first week is Gran Turismo 7. so this game isn't new I mean it's been out for nearly a year
now but the new VR update went live last week and wow it's hard to put into words how realistic and
scary and fast this game feels when playing it in VR being able to look around the cabin
while driving looking over your shoulder or just seeing where the other cars are on the road it
feels strange yet kind of natural I've always enjoyed gt7 but this brings a whole new level
to racing I think this is the game that I would recommend everyone trying out for this headset
they've even added a virtual showroom where you can move walk and look around the cars in your
garage both inside and outside the car now there are other VR headsets out there which you can play
most of these non-exclusive games on but there's one thing that makes me want to play the VR2 over
say the matter Quest 2 and that's the trophies it might only seem like a small point but if you're
like me and you enjoy collecting trophies I will always pick up the PS5 game over the metacrust
game every single time plus with that 4K HDR it will look better on this headset so the VR2
doesn't come with speakers built in but it does have a 3.5 mil headphone jack on the back as well
as a pair of stereo earbuds included in the box and once you've plugged these into the headset
you can wear the earbuds and you'll get that 3D audio sound without any extra cables and you know
what these aren't bad at all now you can go ahead and wear your own headphones over the top of the
headset if you would prefer and I've tested out the pulse 3DS the Nova pros and the inzone h9s and
they all fit over the VR headset with no issues you can either use the 3.5 more headphone jack on
the headset or you can set the audio on your PS5 out to those headphones instead or you could use
your TV or monitor speakers as well but you're not going to get the full immersive experience
doing it this way although that is how I've been playing gt7 on my TV setup so we've talked about
how good these games look and sound but how do they feel well outside of turning your head to see
where you want to go you'll be controlling your gameplay with these two controllers these are the
sense controllers essentially they offer a similar experience to the Dual sense controller with the
same buttons thumb 6 and color theme but they've split them into two ergonomic handles instead
for me these fit perfectly well in my hands and make controlling and playing the games effortless
whether I'm moving around pointing at things shooting or just trying to interact with the
environment I found these two really easy to use they aren't heavy the buttons are in an obvious
and easy to reach spot and the added features make the gameplay even more immersive we get things
like adaptive triggers so when pulling the L2 or R2 triggers you will feel that slight resistance
depending on the game or the action that you're doing and we also get haptic feedback so as you're
moving around or picking things up you get a slight rumble or vibration in the controllers
which change and respond to the situation and something else it has finger detection sensors
built in so even before you press the buttons it will recognize if your fingers are resting on them
in turn changing the way that your hand is shown in the game another cool feature is if you place
the controllers down on a desk and you're not sure which is which well the controllers will
be labeled for you as for the battery I estimate I get around four to five hours out of them before
needing a charge which isn't great but also five hours is enough time that I need a break anyway
in the box we have one USBC cable to charge One controller but then you do have another USBC cable
that came with the PS5 So in theory you should have two cables knocking around that you can use
failing that as it's a normal USBC Port any cable will do the job or you could do as I've done and
just buy the Dual charging dock this will not only make it easier to store them away you also know
that they're being charged every single time you put them down and it looks pretty neat I also try
charging these two controllers as I was playing and to my surprise it worked I've seen others
saying that you cannot charge the controllers while you play but it definitely worked for me
now you would need a pretty long USB cable just to ensure you don't get tangled up at least in games
like Horizon call of the mountain but it's still great to know that you can technically use these
controllers while you're charging so we know VR games look great but what about games and content
that are not optimized for VR how do they look and play well fortunately there's an option called
cinematic mode and what this does is create a virtual cinema screen inside your head that allows
you to view the content on a sort of static screen you don't need to do anything special or fancy
basically any content that is not VR optimized will default to this view so for example the
ps5's home screen is still a flat image it doesn't wrap around your head while you're viewing it you
can then resize it by pressing the PlayStation button on the controller and you get to see this
menu you can either have it as a small monitor or pretend you're sitting in the front row at the
cinema I've played a few different games this way including Spider-Man and even Call of Duty just to
see how it works and how it plays and you know what surprisingly it works really well it kind
of feels like you're sitting in a dark room at the cinema with a massive projector screen it's
not as sharp as they're full of VR effects but I would say it was slightly better than 1080P
and you obviously don't feel as immersed as you're watching a screen Insider screen now
for those games that are not VR optimized you can still use the Dual sense controller just like you
would before essentially the PS5 is treating the VR headset like an external monitor or TV
so controls and gameplay feel exactly the same as normal I did the same with movies and TV shows and
this is where I was really impressed it literally felt like I was at the cinema I can imagine a lot
of people watching movies this way as it gives the impression you've got a massive screen in
your room although I would still choose to watch movies on my TV rather than this it's still an
incredibly impressive setup now while you're using the headset you can if you wish share your
gameplay to your TV or monitor at the same time this is useful if you've got other people in the
room and you want to show them what you're seeing now if you're using the advanced tracking option
on the headset it will reduce how much they see on the screen as it has a PlayStation border around
the entire image but if for any reason you would rather they see the entire screen instead just
disable this option and they get to see it all and you can also live stream straight from the
PS5 to YouTube or Twitch in the same way as you can with any other game on the PS5 just tap the
share button on the sense controller hit broadcast and you are now live on your streaming platform
as for Comfort well it's as comfortable as you need it to be it's got a hard plastic frame on
the outside but on the inside it's coated with a nice soft flexible rubber this molds around your
face quite nicely but it also means it can get quite grubby especially if you've got multiple
people using it and when it comes to wearing it you simply pull it open slide it over your head
and twist the dial on the back to tighten it there's also a button on the front which allows
you to adjust the distance of the screen from your eyes and this is ideal if you wear glasses
and finally you can tweak the width of the lenses by spinning this style and you keep spinning this
until everything is in focus on the screen or it prompts you that your eyes are now in the
correct position and if you wondered whether you can wear a hat with it well yes you can I doubt
a baseball or snap back will work but a beanie or woolly hat is absolutely fine I've had no issues
with Comfort even after hours of gaming and with the different adjustments means it fits snug on
my head and doesn't feel like it's going to fall off or apply unnecessary pressure this helps with
reducing headaches and fatigue so overall is a nice headset to wear I also wanted to quickly
go over some of the settings so if you press the PlayStation icon on the controller you get this
quick settings menu in here you can adjust the screen brightness size and turn the vibrations
on or off you can also quickly set the play area adjust the visibility or enable eye tracking or
you can go into the main settings area and then go to accessories and then under PlayStation VR2
you'll see the entire list of options the only settings that I've changed so far have been
decreasing the boundary display sensitivity to low and this is where the virtual wall shows up
as you're moving around your room and I've also disabled the tracking support option I've not
had any issues with the tracking but it means the big black box around the image is removed from the
TV or monitor while I'm sharing my screen other than that this is a simple Plug and Play headset
so the ultimate question is is the PSVR 2 worth buying well for me the short answer is yes even at
the price tag of 550 or 530 pounds it feels well made it integrates nicely with the PlayStation 5
and the launch lineup of games are decent and the experience that you get from some of these
games are incredible but for that kind of money you need to know you're gonna make the most of
this it cannot be an accessory that just sits in the box and only comes out a few times a year so
it will come down to whether you see value in it do you want to play Horizon call of the mountain
or gt7 in VR and do you like the idea of exploring games and World in a whole new way my advice would
be to look around at the games that are either out already or that are due to come out over the next
six months and decide if those are the games that you wish to play and if you can get Hands-On with
a VR headset before you buy one I would definitely go ahead and do that whether that's in a shop or
if a friend has one because it's a lot of money to spend on a headset that you might not use now let
me know what you thought about today's review and whether you will be buying a PSVR 2 for
your yourself and if there are any games that you would recommend playing first and if you did enjoy
today's video check out my dual sense Edge video next as it covers the new Pro controller for the
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