I don't often find myself truly envious of console Gamers but today I am because
the PlayStation VR2 headset is just playing better and I don't mean better
than the Google cardboard that you have next to your tissue box I mean that in
some ways it is better than anything that you can buy for PC gaming at all I
want an OLED screen so bad this this one
has it and the most impressive thing is the price the psvr2 comes in with specs
better than a valve index at a price that's closer to a meta Quest 2 meaning
that for the 30 million of you who already own a PS5 you're ready to leap
head first into the world of High Fidelity VR Gaming at an unprecedented
price that is as long as you want to play one of these games yeah out of the
gate it's got some downsides and as a PC gaming and VR lover you better believe
I'm going to be looking for them with an extremely critical eye but if they can
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the problem with comparing PCS to consoles is that it's never going to be
quite Apples to Apples however there is one universal language and that's money
so to level the playing field we took the price of a PlayStation 5 with its
shiniest newest accessory and we put together a competent VR capable gaming
PC with a meta Quest 2 and a USBC tether
cable now obviously there are other ways
to skin this particular cat Rift s headsets on eBay for ex example are
looking like a nice little snack at the moment but given the wearable nature of
a VR headset I can sort of understand if some people would feel that it's kind of
like buying secondhand underwear so we opted for all new gear if you want new
underwear by the way LTT Store.com oh
yeah I haven't fooled around with the quest uh since the last time we did a
Quest Video though to be perfectly honest with you oh my goodness I'm going to be
nauseated it's having a really hard time tracking right now is it the lights
maybe the main reason I'm playing around with the Quest 2 right now is just to
establish a baseline for latency tracking as well as image quality
because what a lot of people don't realize about the Quest 2 is that type-c
connection is not actually capable of carrying DisplayPort so it's sending
all the display data over USB meaning
that there's a lot of compression it really doesn't look that great even with
the quality of the lenses on this headset especially when anything is
moving quickly which with rhythm games like the one I'm playing right now is a
major concern just haven't touched one of these in a while and I wanted to hear the speakers and stuff still like the
light weight it's kind of shocking given that the brain is actually in here and
the controllers are okay as long as you tape them closed so the battery
compartment doesn't slip open all the time I appreciate how you wore that for
like 3 minutes and I already have a ring on your face yeah okay one one sec one
sec oh what's up before you proceed you want me to put on a PlayStation VR2 hat
yes I mean sure if I'm going to film an
intro declaring this thing God's gift to Gamers before I even get a chance to put
it on I might as well wear the hat right out of the gate I was really impressed
by both the weight of the headset itself and the thinness and lightness of the
tether obviously removing wires entirely would be ideal but if you're stuck with
them it makes a big difference having one that's not super heavy dragging off
of you and there's lots of other things that show Sony's experience here the
headband for example expands quickly and easily with this button to fit even the
largest of Noggin and they've used a specially textured silicone rubber both
at the back and at the front that's designed to a be comfortable B Block
light from coming in at the top above the skirt here and c not feel sticky in
fact this is cute they put their little x square triangle Circle icons here just
like they did on the inside of the cover of the PlayStation 5 I like the feel of
this the cushion is kind of two-stage it's got a nice soft half inflated bike
tire kind of feel initially and then if you go deep there's kind of a a stiffer
but still cushioned component behind it really like that for the rest of the
physical design this button adjusts the position of the headset itself so you
can bring the skirt up against your eyes we've got ipd adjustment thank you it's
physical right yeah oh thank goodness external cameras for pass through and
tracking power button microphone and
easy access to the pass through button so you can actually see your surroundings moving inside we've got a
nice sanitary silicone skirt keep light out we've got a sensor that tells the
headset whether you're wearing it or not and it's far less obvious but there are
IR sensors around the lenses here that
handle eye tracking so that the psvr2 can actually tell where you're looking
and render in higher quality depending on what part of the scene you are
actually focused on now what you won't find is any kind of integrated speakers
which frankly is probably for the best because I pretty much promise you that
they're included 3 and 1 12 mm earphones are going to sound a lot better than
what the Oculus Quest 2 has let's just
go ahead and get this plugged in right and there we go stylish you can
really tell that this is not Sony's first kick at the can but you can also
tell that Sony is a Japanese company on the one hand it's not that hard for me
to get a good seal on the other hand for Comfort I really like to wear the
headset as close into my face as possible and it
is this this is my
nose well you know that thing where Nintendo designed a ride for America
that half of American men can't ride I think sometimes you know the designers
are not the same shape as some of the users and that's okay I would still give
it a solid B+ for Comfort which is saying a lot about any VR headset and I
really like that I'm able to block out almost all the light here without any
pressure against my face that's sick I'm
going to lose the Hat though it's definitely going to be more comfortable
oh oh I was aiming for the if you say that's a B+ yeah what is the Quest 2 The
Quest 2 is okay B really yeah I think
it's like a for the PlayStation and like
C for the Quest 2 I hate this thing I am
just kind of used to it cuz I had a I had a Vive before and it's a very
similar mounting mechanism so I've spent a lot of hours in it moving on to
controllers the award for best approved goes to Sony they're super easy to
tighten on your wrist equally easy to
loosen really love that and wow they
actually look like VR controllers with things like the ability to squeeze the
grips here to close your hands and nice
easy access to your dual joysticks as well as your circle X Triangle Square
buttons really I can't say I have much
in the way of complaints they are a little heavy people with
large hands had trouble with the way it goes around them oh large hands being a
bit of a disadvantage once again Japanese design got it another little
drawback of the controllers is that while they do support USBC charging they
can't be charged while playing so while I don't expect most of you to be playing
for more than the 4-Hour battery life would afford you but if you forget to
plug them in after a session you might be hooped the next time you try to jump
into VR uh for that reason I can see why why Sony offers this $50 charging
accessory and honestly it doesn't seem like a terrible value considering that
it's first party and probably decent whatever complaints we might have about
the psvr2 controllers though they are nothing compared to the complaints we
had about the pleasure WS of previous generation PlayStation VR experiences
good riddens and goodbye enough talk
let's give it a try ooh I like the hacks
it vibrates make sure you're holding your controllers yes yes yes mother you
know what the pass through is really good oh yeah I mean it's black and white
like it sucks or whatever but it's very
low latency it's clear enough that you can easily just like do things if you
need to you know oh well I got hooked on a thing there but that wasn't that bad
oh OLED oh I want an OLED screen so bad I
can definitely see some rainbow effect
on small white objects
little tiny bit of fringing I do wonder about the sub pixel Arrangement I'm
coming into this cold guys so uh you're having RGB with me RGB sub pixels
yeah okay if you go like this you should be able to see kind of like a smearing
behind objects if you're on an LCD display not on this but that's not the
Highlight for me it's the Deep Inky
blacks and the fact that going around like this there's so little in the way
of motion blur or Trails behind moving objects let's do Horizon call of the
mountain I'm really excited about this not only is this display extremely high
resolution it's 2,000x 240 per eye but I
can already tell that compared to just about any other VR heads that I've ever
tried the screen door effect
is almost negligible so that's the like
the black spaces you can see in between the illuminated pixels and was expecting
it to be a little bit cleaner in terms of fringing because it does use an RGB
sub pixel layout but there is still some and honestly I think that just comes
down to the fact that Fel lenses these kind of ringed lenses they're just not
perfect okay all right so let's um oh this is
pretty unforgiving um
okay holy crap does this ever look good
though wow like I feel like obviously the you
know this is a grass texture as opposed to an actual grass thing but like you
could just tell like you just you want to interact with it you know what I mean
does this support HDR yeah the way the
sun and the Shadows just oh man I H
having that experience you know where you feel like you're oh well okay the
wall also came up but you know you feel like you're actually looking over a
cliff okay okay tell me this the ey tracking theoretically is boosting the
graphical Fidelity where I happen to be looking and lowering it elsewhere I
thought I would probably notice something like that uh hold on I'm going
to I'm going to go somewhere it's super obvious you don't even need to hold on hold on wait what really yeah it's so
obvious on this display where you were looking where am I looking uh at the
triangly chumy on the right side of the screen shut up why are you in my head
okay okay hold on hold on what am I looking
at uh the fern that's like halfway down
the thing stop
no I can't tell Alex I can't tell it's
super obvious like the stuff that you're looking at especially when you're
looking out past something yeah it's like super CLE clear there and then
everything around it's blurry wow that
is so cool here I can't tell cuz you're just looking at stuff but like you say
this is obvious I can't see it at all it is super obvious I can see it from 30
like 25 shut up it can't be that easy
like can you see it changing yes cuz our eyes are supposed to be so good at
seeing motion why can't I see when things are shifting like is it just
sharpness yeah it's like sharpness and like the resolution of the textures
wow okay okay where was I supposed to go
o uh oh that is very nauseating for me oh
yeah this game just absolute puke Town
especially for like it's probably a lot of people's first VR experience and they
are just going to just puke all over the
place oh no I have to do this again do not like okay
okay oh oh I feel like the world is falling away for me right
now
okay
really oh seriously I have to are
you stop I don't know if this is my
favorite game ever but boy do I ever like this
headset wa hi there the
ey oh I'm okay it's not always grabbing an
arrow for me here now one disadvantage to Inside Out tracking that is using
cameras on the front of the headset to track where your hands are is that if
you play a game like say for example hollow point or this one that requires
you to grab arrows out of your quiver it's relying temporarily on just the
gyroscopes that I assume are inside the
controllers and those drift so you can end up with inaccuracy and then it'll
kind of like freak out a little bit when it comes back within range of The
Trackers as it corrects it it's just the nature of the technology and there's
nothing you can really do about it overall I wouldn't describe it as terrible but when things are fast-paced
the last thing you want is you see that did you see how my hand drifted there
look at these apples yeah I'm I'm trying game
look at
this how did I manage to bite it
there what the I want to eat the core some people eat the core you're in a
dystopian future and you're going to leave that much
apple unbelievable if I had to guess I'd
say it's not running at 120 HZ but it's
definitely running at a smooth 90 will let jump off the edge no it won't let me
jump off the edge I try oh I didn't try that hard apparently yeah there's no
jump button as far as I can tell oh cuz you can actually
jump okay sorry sorry sorry all right let's try something different I want
this display on my index and I want it now it's just so clean why can't I break
things oh
well supercharge this plant's ability to grow get that tea yeah that's what a cup
against a flower sounds like welcome to the stenders academy oh my God it's
Riley I knew I knew I had heard of this game for a reason and I am delighted to
inform you that your application was head and tentacles above the tens of
others we received awesome shut up the character's name is
Riley credit as in ears these do a pretty good job of blocking sound but
Alex you're 100% right they
are not the best I've ever heard quality
fine but Sound Stage yeah it just everything sounds like it's coming from
inside my
skull okay I mean that's probably enough of this anyway right yeah something
notable is that while Sony is plugging into a USBC Port just like we did with
the meta Quest 2 it's not using the USB
protocol I'd be able to tell because there would be compression artifacts and
blocking all over this and there is not
not it's clean it's got to be DisplayPort over USB or something like that it
could also be HDMI I guess oh it's right hand drive that sure makes perfect sense
oh I need to hold on oh I'm inside the car can you guys see what I'm seeing not
bad Feld of view it's 110° not the best
not bad I don't want to even focus on what I'm doing I just want to look
around in the city while I'm driving you know what I found re was really good was
that I was able to focus a lot further down the track than I came other VR
headsets yeah it's just cuz the resolution is so high and the screen
door effect is so low I did find it not
quite as far down the track as I would have want but like on the rift S I had
to do the ipd like super weird so I couldn't even focus on stuff that was
close to me so that's because on the rift S I don't think the ipd adjustment
is true ipd adjustment it's software ah
oh man those headlights in the mirror behind
me it's not the brightest display ever
but the HDR effect is very very
believable same thing with this little blue LED on the console in front of me
like it's annoying not in a I can't play this game kind of way but in a it's
realistic kind of way you
know the reflections on this
car like what are those Reflections
being rendered at like 30 FPS uh yes they are huh I wasn't even like noticing
that though it just oh it's so
pretty hi the cold hard truth is as much as we
might try there's no way to make an apples to Apple's comparison between
this and any PC VR experience whether it's a more budget oriented one like the
Quest 2 setup that we've got here or my index set up at home there's tradeoffs
right on the one hand neither of those pcvr headsets has a display that even
begins to touch the one in the psvr2 but
right now the experiences available on the PlayStation 5 are fairly limited
compared to the vast library of games that you have access to on the PC that
also ignores the additional utility of a PC it doesn't just do VR also does well
okay this can run solid works yeah that I was going to say 2D gaming but it can
do all kinds of other things it's just that back to that gaming thing the
Inconvenient Truth here is that it's just playing not as good at it either in
2D or in VR as the PlayStation VR2 not
for the price anyway it also took me like 8 hours to set this up that was
like four so as much as it pains me to
say you know what yeah I'm going wear the hat at least until I get a good OLED
headset on PC then Sony would have a very hard time getting me back just like
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