PlayStation VR2 Headset Design Revealed - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 22 February 2022 / 2,324 Views
Sony Interactive Entertainment has released the first look at the design of the next-generation virtual reality headset, the PlayStation VR2 headset. There was also a look at the updated and final design image of our PlayStation VR2 Sense controller.
"You’ll notice the PS VR2 headset has a similar shape as the PS VR2 Sense controller, taking on a matching 'orb' look," said Sony Interactive Entertainment platform experience senior vice president Hideaki Nishino. "The circular orb shape represents the 360-degree view that players feel when they enter the virtual reality world, so this shape captures it nicely.
"The design of the PS VR2 headset was also inspired by the look of the PS5 family of products. When our design team created the PS5 console, they also had the next generation VR headset in mind so you’ll notice some similarities in the look and feel. The PS5 console has flat edges as it is meant to be displayed on a flat surface, while there was more emphasis on adding roundness to the design of PS VR2 headset since it is meant to have constant human contact, similar to the rounded edges of the DualSense controller and Pulse 3D headset.
"Our goal is to create a headset that will not only become an attractive part of your living room decor, but will also keep you immersed in your game world, to the point where you almost forget you are using a headset or controller. That’s why we paid very close attention to the ergonomics of the headset and conducted extensive testing to ensure a comfortable feel for a variety of head sizes. We already had a lot of positive feedback on the ergonomics of the first PS VR headset by carefully balancing the headset weight and having a simple headband that can be adjustable, so we kept the same concept for the PS VR2 headset. Other features such as the headset’s adjustable scope that places the scope area closer or further away from the face and placement of the stereo headphone jack also remain the same, so players will be familiar with it.
"For the PS VR2 headset, we took comfort a few steps further by adding new features such as a lens adjustment dial, so users have an additional option to match the lens distance between their eyes to optimize their view. We also created a slimmer design with a slight weight reduction – even with the new added features such as the new built-in motor for the headset feedback. It was quite a challenge to create a slimmer design with new features added to improve upon our first headset, but our design and engineering teams proved this could be possible when we saw the final design!"
Senior Art Director at Sony Interactive Entertainment Yujin Morisawa added, "When I started to work on the design for the PlayStation VR2 headset, one of the areas I wanted to focus on first was the idea of creating a vent in the headset to let air out, similar to the vents on the PS5 console that allows airflow. Our engineers came up with this idea as a good way to allow ventilation and avoid having the lens fog up while players are immersed in their VR games.
"I worked on many design concepts to achieve this, and in the final design, you can see there is a little space in between the top and front surface of the scope that contains the integrated ventilation. I am really proud of how this turned out and the positive feedback I have gotten so far. I hope our PlayStation fans will also agree, and I can’t wait for them to try it out."
Check out images of PlayStation VR2 below:
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It is complementary to the PS5 is design, looks quite good.
It does look pretty
I think we can now safely say that this thing will launch in 2022.
Looks like the Oculas Quest 2 which is a good thing. Only issue is the cable.
I like the new design. Reminds me of Ghost in the Shell.
I look forward to getting this as my original PS VR was stolen. I just hope that original PS VR games are backwards compatible with the VR2.
I heard that they were not because VR2 has a different FOV - changing the FOV in a VR title can completely break it, if the title doesn't have support for multiple FOVs. And since PS VR is a console-attached piece of hardware, all games were designed for that specific FOV (unlike PC VR titles which have to take that into account). It might be possible I guess for Sony to have developers patch their PS VR games to "detect" if it is played on a PS5/PSVR2 system or not, and thus change their FOV to the needed 110 degrees.
Man that is a shame if Sony doesn't find (or bother to find) a solution. Hopefully patches can indeed be a solution, but that would be up to the developers so who knows if they end up doing anything.
Looks so good!
Very stylish, I like it.
What do you reckon price wise? £300?
$399-499
^ That range
My heart is hoping for $399 but my brain is telling me $499... lol
My exact thoughts
Same here
Controller design looks very similar to the Oculus touch controllers to me.
This is looking slick :) I love it.
I'm ready to pre-order that baby as soon as Sony will let me!
I have been using PC for VR (I have Occulus Rift and 3 Windows Mixed Reality headsets) and it works like a charm but the setup is not as simple as I would like to be (I playing in my office, I do not move a PC in my living room every time I want to play).
So for my next headset, I will go with the PSVR2. (Having an Horizon VR game is also helping a lot ;-))
Hope it works natively on PC for your VR games on PC as well.
This is an interesting idea - PC support! I hadn't thought about that at all, but man, it definitely could be a real possibility. It would have been near impossible to give the first PS VR kit PC support, with the weird breakout box and everything. But VR2 is just a single USB-C cable. And Sony has really been embracing PCs lately: native DualShock4 and DualSense drivers, ports of God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn and Uncharted, etc.
Well to be honest, other than Alyx, I'm not really caring that much about my other VR games (all on Steam). So if Sony does that, amazing BUT if they can just get HL: Alyx on PSVR2 :) That would be the sickest! This is probably the best VR game out there.
I was able to make PSVR work fine on PC, but well I used to test some POV videos, didn`t try for gaming to be sure).
Seemed quite good to me.
