PS(PC)VR 2, anyone interested?

You can get a Quest Pro pretty cheap now, and that is wireless, has self-tracked controllers, pancake lenses, built in audio and displays not far off OLED (without mura, and a non-pentile layout too), and it includes a charging dock. Ok it's not going to have long term support for standalone, but it's an incredible PC VR headset.

Also one thing I just remembered - PSVR2 doesn't have built in audio. You have to use earbuds or headphones.

Edit: And Quest Pro has eyetracking that is supported by third party software for both foveated rendering and social, plus face tracking.
 
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Ravenger said:
You can get a Quest Pro pretty cheap now, and that is wireless, has self-tracked controllers, pancake lenses, built in audio and displays not far off OLED (without mura, and a non-pentile layout too), and it includes a charging dock. Ok it's not going to have long term support for standalone, but it's an incredible PC VR headset.

Also one thing I just remembered - PSVR2 doesn't have built in audio. You have to use earbuds or headphones.

Edit: And Quest Pro has eyetracking that is supported by third party software for both foveated rendering and social, plus face tracking.
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It does come with its own earbuds though.
 
Dano said:
No headset with fresnel lenses is worth it now I've had pancake.
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That's how I feel with wired vs wireless. I can't handle the low image quality I see with wireless headsets. I could never use one as my main headset. I only dig my Quest 3 out when family come down, so their kids don't mess up my good headsets with finger prints and dinks.
 
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wickfut said:
That's how I feel with wired vs wireless. I can't handle the low image quality I see with wireless headsets. I could never use one as my main headset. I only dig my Quest 3 out when family come down, so their kids don't mess up my good headsets with finger prints and dinks.
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Using Virtual desktop, 5ghz wifi and AV1 on my Quest 3 I can't tell the difference. Meta link or whatever it's called these days is very noticeably dropping quality and has compression artefacts all over the show.
 
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you don't think a 120hz PCVR OLED headset with controllers is worth £500? BSB is £1050 without controllers and base stations.
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This particular OLED implementation is not good, PSVR2's suffers from bad motion blur and small sweet spot and without eye tracking, the small sweet spot issue is much worse. Since almost all the controller features don't work on PC, psvr2 controllers are just cheap plastic controllers with one of the worst ergonomic designs on the market. As for base stations, it's not fair to compare against PSVR2 since it uses inside out tracking and has issues with tracking, where as base station headsets do not have issues.
 
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Oh well, at least this news has made me want to stick with my reverb G2 even longer. I was contemplating the PSVR2 as it's relatively cheap and OLED based, but they have nerfed every other single feature that made it compelling so it's an obvious miss now.

Not upgrading from my G2 until there is an OLED headset that supports HDR, has a significant res increase plus pancake or even better lenses. I'll need to update my GPU before then though so will be a long wait probably....
 
I wonder if the driver can be modified to unlock the eye tracking and haptics etc? They are a hardware level feature so I don't see why they can't be used on the pc platform.
 
I've been playing with the iVRy driver + PSVR2 plugged into a Varjo USB C to DP box I got with the Aero. It's not ready to game with as there's a lot of weird shallow 3D depth perception and extreme DOF warping, so waiting on the official PC drivers.
The PSVR2 was originally detected as a 120hz 1080p HDR monitor before it got the update, now it it shows as a Sony VR device.
The headset isn't very sharp in PCVR vs something like a Reverb G2, it's a soft image which isn't much sharper than what you see in games when it's connected to PS5, I'd say around a Quest Pro level of detail, maybe less.
SteamVR sets 100% resolution at 2000x2000 per eye. Super sampling/increasing render resolution works until around 2800x2800 per eye then hits the limit. This could just be a limit of the iVRy driver rather than the headset though, so I'm hoping the official driver allows unlocking of resolution scaling.
The OLED displays are very very bright on PC. Coming out of a jump near a star in Elite Dangerous is actually blinding, the headset is full 100% brightness in SDR mode so doesn't really need HDR.
Automobilista 2 night races looked great with the pitch blacks and the only lights coming from the illuminated dashboard.
Skyrim just looked like Skyrim.
I didn't try any VR controller games , just the games which work with a gamepad.
 
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carrot1401 said:
I don’t suppose you Are able to compare it with the latter?
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For PC usage, I can't give you a definite as I've not used the official Sony drivers. I sold a Quest 3 a few weeks ago to someone on here. I didn't use it. I found it uncomfortable and didn't do anything special. I'm keeping the PSVR2 around due to the OLED panel. Overall I prefer the PSVR2 over the Quest3 though, but I think I'm in the minority as there's a lot of Quest 3 lovers out there.
 
Dano said:
No headset with fresnel lenses is worth it now I've had pancake.
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This TBH. I still have my PSVR2 headset but I rarely use it except for Gran Turismo as the Fresnel lenses look horrible compared to my Quest 3’s pancake ones.

Am I the only one or is anyone else considering selling their PSVR2 headset seeing as Sony have basically dropped support for it?

Feeling like I wasted my money buying it :(

Is there anything on the horizon worth hanging onto the headset for? Do we think aces of thunder will ever actually come out or is it vapourware?
 
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Well it looks like there has been a huge price drop on the PSVR2 prior to the release of the adapter/app to use on the PC. Its £349 for the base and £389 for Call of the mountain bundle (Base can be had for £329 from Smyths). Much better deal and i am actually tempted.

Also if you can get it to work(Unfortunately i cant) open the game collection website in a private browser. OK the cookie prompt then it should give an option to sign up to the newsletter for 10% off code. If you can get it to work the PSVR is £310 on their website.
 
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