The next generation of VR on Playstation

I’m glad to see a focus on the controller. I work on Rec Room, a popular VR game. We run on many platforms including almost all headsets. In my experience, the original PSVR controller is among the worst as far as VR controllers go so this is a nice step in the right direction for PlayStation.

Facebook is creating an opportunity for someone else by requiring Facebook logins. I anticipate that many owners of the oculus will jump ship if a viable alternative is presented.

Nice to know they are at least developing a generation of VR for the Playstation 5 but the announcement is void of any details for headset and light on details for the controllers. It isn't coming in 2021.

They're still going with a cable, not sure how feasible full wireless was.

My PSVR setup has been sitting in a drawer for over a year now. While I found the headset to be comfortable, I just had too many tracking issues with the camera.

The Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 have really revolutionized VR. I absolutely refuse to play VR games while tethered now.

As far as I'm concerned, if any VR headset comes out that requires a wire tether, it's already dead on arrival.

Interesting news, I think a lot of people were under the impression that Sony had given up on the technology. The PS5 is certainly powerful enough to deliver a decent VR experience, hopefully Sony has some fresh ideas to differentiate themselves. The VR industry desperately needs some innovation to move it forward.

TL;DR:

> ... our next-generation VR system will be coming to PlayStation 5, ... [but] it won’t be launching in 2021.

That's pretty much the only actual information in this post. Well, and that there will be a "new VR controller", but that is to be expected -- of course everything related to it will be new!

If you could "reuse" hardware from your previous generation consoles you wouldn't need to spend more money buying all the new stuff!