PlayStation VR : What you need to know.
PlayStation VR was announced as "Project Morpheus"
back in 2014.
The project comes with some visual tweaks but the core
design with gives it the advantage over the current technologies as the
"Oculus" and the "HTC vive" and other traditional headsets
hasn't changed.
Sony’s design has a:
- Clean white curves
- A black front panel
- A rubber face mask.
- A matrix of blue lights: six lining the headset’s edges, two on the back, and one right in the middle of the front panel.
Comparing Project Morpheus and the "Rift" or
"Vive" we can find same disadvantages:
"Morpheus" is heavier, has the lowest resolution (it
uses a single panel instead of one for each eye),
but in practice the comparison isn't so clear for one thing
PS VR is ridiculously comfortable: it fits on your head completely differently,
where most headsets strapped onto your face like sky-mask the PS VR is mounted
on a plastic ring that stretches around the upper part of your head balanced by
weights on the back so there is not much pressure on your face and it's wearable
with glasses
Connecting the system
- plug small processing box in your ps4
- plug TV and headset into the box
- put the tracking camera straight into the console
- follow the console guides and instructions
- (the toughest part is placing the camera in the correct position: if the space is too big, it might not pick up the tracking lights on the headset)
The thing that’s going to draw a lot of people to PlayStation VR, though, is the price: $399. Well, that’s technically the price, although it’s also a bit of a sneaky move on Sony’s part. This base system doesn’t contain the PlayStation’s tracking camera, which is mandatory for PSVR, or the two Move controllers, which are highly encouraged. The reasoning is that since both these products were already on the market, some users will already have them. But unless you were a really big fan of Johann Sebastian Joust or some other game that used one of Sony’s niche peripherals, you should consider the $499 PSVR bundle — which comes with two Move controllers and a camera — your default choice.
EVEN AT NEARLY $500, PSVR IS STILL CHEAPER THAN THE RIFT AND VIVE