![]() ![]() President of developers Polyphony Digital, Kazunori Yamauchi, says any of the game’s 450+ cars will be available to race in virtual reality. The best thing about Gran Turismo 7 in VR is if you already own the game it comes as a free upgrade. His email is, and available privately on Signal (22).PlayStation announced a further 13 games on Friday, including Gran Turismo 7 on launch day. Sony, please pony up and pay Valve to port Half-Life: Alyx to this thing.įollow Patrick on Twitter. PlayStation VR2 is a slick device, but for now, one that probably requires some patience. Horizon: Call of the Mountain is spectacular and worthy of its $60 price tag, but how many games will Sony produce that can only be played on an expensive accessory? There’s no knowing, and we won’t know the answers for a little while yet. It’s also reliant on Sony releasing a steady stream of exclusive games. But because PlayStation VR2 is chained to a PS5, it’s also chained to Sony’s ability to convince (or pay) developers to port their games to a platform with a brand-new, unproven user base. It’s come a long way from the fuzzy goggles and wall-mounted cameras of years past. It’s the most spectacular way for a newcomer to experience virtual reality, and I’m jealous of anyone taking a dip for the first time. None are deal breakers, and for the moment, the PlayStation VR2 is my preferred virtual reality device. But it worked fine when reverted back to my TV. The controllers worked fine in every other game, but Pistol Whip? Nothing. ![]() Later, when I moved the device out of my office and a projector in another part of my house, I was unable to point at anything in Pistol Whip. (My running theory is a lack of light, because it was cloudy.) I never figured out what was causing the issue-it just stopped happening. ![]() I kept wishing there was a way for me to soothe the device, and declare that even though the conditions weren’t ideal, it could chill out. During an extended session, the headset, over and over, lost track of my “play area.” I’d get booted out of Horizon: Call of the Mountain for a moment, before the headset figured out how to fix things and snapped me back in. The biggest frustrations are when you and the headset are both at a loss. PlayStation VR2 goes out of its way to make moments like this as frictionless as possible, often by infusing the interface and tutorialization with cuteness and joy, but it’s always a small hurdle, the kind of small hurdle that, over time, adds up to a virtual reality set collecting dust when the dazzle wears off. PlayStation VR 2 doesn’t have that issue, but dust and debris add up over time, especially after handing the headset around to others.)Īnd too often, despite your and the device’s best intentions, you’ll have to establish a new “play area,” the defined space where interactions can occur. (It sounds goofy, but older headsets, as recently as the Meta Quest 2, were notorious for clouding the lenses if you breathed heavily. The interfaces are different, so it’s an understandable charge, but the $5 or $10 nickels and dimes add up, especially in an already pricey package that can’t be bothered to include a microfiber cloth to clean the headset’s lenses, something you will do with regularity, even if this headset is much better at managing breath and sweat than most. All those original PlayStation VR games only work on the old hardware. It’s worth noting many games, with exceptions like No Man’s Sky, are charging for upgrades to PlayStation VR2, because importantly, there is no backwards compatibility. Should everyone experience Rez in virtual reality at least once in their life? Absolutely. Is Rez on PlayStation VR2 enough of an upgrade to warrant purchasing it a second or third time? Nah. Again, some of the judgment here is previous experience and investment. ![]()
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