The most challenging part of any VR setup is ensuring nobody crashes into a wall mid-session since you usually can’t see immediate surroundings while wearing one of those enormous headsets. Thankfully, Sony is combating this issue with some new functionality in PlayStation VR2.
On Tuesday, Sony gave everyone an early look at PlayStation VR2. Specifically, the headset’s all-new ‘see-through view’ feature.
“With PS VR2, you can see your surroundings while wearing the headset with our new see-through feature,” Yasuo Takahashi, senior staff product manager at SIE, said via the PlayStation Blog. “It comes in handy when you want to easily check where the PS VR2 Sense controllers are in your room without taking the headset off.”
Players can manually set boundaries with the device, where alerts will let you know if you’ve wandered out of bounds. Presumably, away from anything shouldn’t be bumped into (IE: mirrors or anything delicate). The safe zone can be changed at any time — pretty nifty stuff.
There isn’t a release date for PlayStation VR2 yet, though it may arrive either this fall or early in 2023. The device is taking full advantage of that PS5 horsepower too, so it’ll be a significant upgrade over prior iterations.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
