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Sony’s new virtual reality headset is coming your way

The new gaming headset matches the PS5, and has a headband-type visor that’s similar (but smaller) to the first PSVR

Mathures Paul Published 24.08.22, 03:33 AM
The upcoming Sony PS VR2.

The upcoming Sony PS VR2. Picture: Sony

Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 gaming headset is arriving early next year, just beyond the US holiday season. The company has revealed its plans on Twitter and Instagram while trickling information out about the upcoming headset over the past several months.

From the information we have gathered so far, the long-awaited VR headset is an update to the PlayStation VR that Sony released for the PlayStation 4 back in 2016.

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The new gaming headset matches the PS5, and has a headband-type visor that’s similar (but smaller) to the first PSVR. The headset is expected to offer unique vibrating feedback and controllers with advanced haptics, along with eye tracking, a 110-degree field of view, and foveated rendering (uses an eye tracker integrated with a virtual reality headset to reduce the rendering workload; it offers better graphics but with fewer pixels).

There will also be passthrough cameras that will work like cameras on other VR headsets, showing the real world in your headset. It will feature displays that add up to 4K resolution and can run at 90 or 120Hz while the headset connects to the console with a single USB C cable.

Among the unique features will be a live broadcast mode, which will use the PS5’s TV-mounted camera to record yourself overlaid with footage from your live gameplay into a single stream.

The line-up will have 20-odd “major” games available when the headset launches with the list including games set in the Horizon and Walking Dead universes, as well as VR versions of No Man’s Sky and Resident Evil Village.

The PS VR2 will work with the PS5. Though it’s difficult to order the console because of demands but things are easing out and should be more relaxed when PS VR2 arrives. Meanwhile, Meta’s high-end ‘Project Cambria’ headset is set to come out sometime later this

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