Soldato
Yeah i am pretty sure you need to use a PS4 controller on PSVR titles as it needs the lightbar along with the blue lights on the PSVR headset to do the tracking. 
PlayStation VR / VR2
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i suspect Sony could implement some kind of emulation in psvr2 to make it backwards compatible if they wanted to.
It's not that, it's that many games were designed to use the PS4 controller and it's lightbar for player input
I’m sure that the ps5 headset and controllers could be programmed to emulate the lightbar tracking using software via the headset cameras and gyroscope functionality in order to provide backwards compatibility though?
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Sure they could make an exception for Wipeout Omega
Would be one of the easiest VR games to implement too
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I’m hoping my small gaming room will provide enough space. It’ll be tight. I pretty much just want sitting down VR
Man of Honour
I’m hoping my small gaming room will provide enough space. It’ll be tight. I pretty much just want sitting down VR
I wasted 3 hours today playing Everybody's Golf sitting down, I've also fell in love with my Caddie.
Maybe, but I'm sure it was a lot of work for Sony to get PS4 titles running on PS5 and they did that so you never know. Fingers crossed!
It would certainly help to encourage adoption of a new PSVR2 headset as there are a lot of decent PSVR games and it can run PS4 stuff already anyway.
Man of Honour
I have Google'd but you never know - has anybody had any luck playing PSVR compatible movies on the PS5 in VR?
If so, how?
If so, how?
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It would definitely suck not being able to play any psvr games on psvr 2. I suspect at least a lot of the multi platform games like beat saber, pistol whip etc. would be pretty easily ported since those are already available on pcvr headsets with very similar controllers. Only games like Resi 7 and Astro bot should be a bigger problem I feel like, maybe they could be worked on a case by case basis
I would expect Sony to looking at having some recent games like Astrobot ready to go on Day 1, as it was a showcase game and they need to have a decent number of title available to generate interest. I wouldn't be surprised if Astrobot got an upgrade to support haptics too.
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Astro is one of those that relies so much on the camera and lightbar on the dualshock 4, but I desperately hope that it's one that's playable on psvr 2!
Man of Honour
Is it definite that VR2 won't be backward compatible or are you all just guessing?
If so I won't bother with it because the PS5 and VR1 are the first games machine I've bought since the Mattel Intellivision and I can get all my VR games very cheap from CEX & Music Magpie
If so I won't bother with it because the PS5 and VR1 are the first games machine I've bought since the Mattel Intellivision and I can get all my VR games very cheap from CEX & Music Magpie
Man of Honour
Yep, all guess work and wishful thinking
Hopefully or else I'm not buying.
Yes I know it would be pointless playing a PS4 VR game in a PS5 with VR2 but I'd be happy until people started to sell their PS5 VR games off cheap.