Sony up to date PlayStation VR2’s firmware to repair the rotational distortion concern we famous in our overview of the PC adapter.
In our overview of the PSVR 2 PC adapter, I praised the way it delivers a novel OLED PC VR headset with gorgeous colours and distinction, at the price of a softer picture with a mura sample.
However I additionally famous a wierd and distracting picture distortion concern when rotating our head side-to-side horizontally, one that did not happen when utilizing the headset on a PlayStation 5, and did not occur with another VR headset on my PC. And as we made clear, this wasn’t reprojection, as a result of even after I manually disabled all types of reprojection the difficulty endured, and it occurred even in graphically simplistic scenes.
PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter Evaluation: Naked Minimal OLED
PlayStation VR2’s PC adapter is out in the present day, and we’ve been testing it for the previous few days. Right here’s what we consider PSVR 2 as a PC VR headset.
With model 2.0.0 of the PlayStation VR2 app for PC, launched in the present day, Sony has up to date the headset’s firmware to repair this concern. I simply examined it and might affirm the difficulty is now not current – it is absolutely mounted for me.
The replace additionally permits AMD graphics card customers to regulate the headset’s refresh price, selecting between 90Hz and 120Hz. Beforehand this was solely attainable with NVIDIA graphics playing cards.
Notice that to entry all of the fixes and enhancements of two.0.0, you may must launch the PlayStation VR2 app on Steam, flip in your headset and controllers, and click on ‘replace’ on every.
Individually, TP-Hyperlink has made out there a particular firmware model for its UB500/UB5A Bluetooth USB adapter that it says may repair the lag points some house owners have been experiencing with the PSVR 2 Sense controllers.
With the rotational distortion concern now solved, PlayStation VR2 turns into so much simpler to suggest as a PC VR headset. However as I famous in our overview, it’s going to rely upon private choice: do you like the wealthy and deep however gentle and noisy picture of PSVR 2’s OLED, or the sharp and clear however boring and muted providing of its LCD rivals?
