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Playstation VR2 discussion thread

Im so confused by this, how do you use it? It honestly might work best on the PS 5 despite the lack of horsepower. Everything is very streamlined.
How do I use what..? I said I haven't used it.. at all, lol. Oh wait no I did use it once because my son was playing GT7 with it and I tried the car display mode where you can walk around the cars and sit in them to look around their interiors, which was pretty cool to see exotic cars fully-modeled interiors at least.
 
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How do I use what..? I said I haven't used it.. at all, lol. Oh wait no I did use it once because my son was playing GT7 with it and I tried the car display mode where you can walk around the cars and sit in them to look around their interiors, which was pretty cool to see exotic cars fully-modeled interiors at least.
It was the way you worded it, made me do a double take 😅.
5080 FE has been in stock lately from the Nvidia marketplace, keep an eye on it.

How does this compare to previous headsets you have used? Debating between quest 3 or PSVR. Or maybe I wait for the frame to come out. Sounds like the contrast is a huge downgrade compared to PSVR though, on the otherhand I don't know how many really cinematic games VR even has, or if it is viable to play regular non-VR games with the VR screen.
I've used a quest 2 i borrowed from my office. We have a quest 3 now I'll try out. My prior headset was the reverb g2 v2. It's better than the reverb because it has actual controllers that dont suck, and the tracking is far better. Visual clarity was probably better on the reverb because it has very slight SDE but no Mura effect. Mura kind of looks like a slight bit of grain over the entire image. If you can't run the headset at full res it makes it more noticeable. It's also a lot more noticeable in dark / gray scenes. When i play Horizon it doesn't bother me, but RE 4 without running PS 5 pro (regular ps5 has reduced resolution) is borderline for me (i might not play it tbh). If I'm running any game on PC it's great because i can just dial my settings in and run it at full res. Riven looks fantastic, so does Alyx. Metro is bad on PC for some reason, just runs like a pig. Only bad experience on PC so far.
 
I do really like the headset, Mura is definitely a thing but it's not any worse than SDE you get from LCD screens.

Sorry, I know I am been pedantic, but LCD panels have less SDE than OLED. It's one of the disadvantages of using OLED screens.

We have a quest 3 now I'll try out.

I would recommend that you don't try it and live in happiness with your PSVR 2 :) The Quest 3 has pancake lenses, none of the other headsets you mentioned do. The Lenses are also some of the best on the market. The clarity of Pancake lenses is amazing. Some people find it very hard to go back to using any headset with Fresnel lenses after using a headset with pancake lenses.
 
Oh man, I legit didn't know about the psvr2-pc adapter. I went from OG htc vive to psvr2 and it feels great. Did enjoy the speakers on the vive better though, squishies in my ears bother me and headphones becomes too much stuff on my head lol. Just fired up stranger things vr and it is kinda fun, haven't played too much but the movement is really nice and fluid.
 
Sorry, I know I am been pedantic, but LCD panels have less SDE than OLED. It's one of the disadvantages of using OLED screens.



I would recommend that you don't try it and live in happiness with your PSVR 2 :) The Quest 3 has pancake lenses, none of the other headsets you mentioned do. The Lenses are also some of the best on the market. The clarity of Pancake lenses is amazing. Some people find it very hard to go back to using any headset with Fresnel lenses after using a headset with pancake lenses.
Meh I'll still try it. I have no clarity issues besides mura(big one) and some subtle god rays. SDE is not really very noticeable, it seems less noticeable than prior headsets I've tried, maybe because it can actually display black. Im not sure. The only time i really felt SDE on the Reverb G2 was during dark scenes in half life alyx. The flash light + the gray black made it super noticeable. I'm wondering if certain color frequencies make it more noticeable or not. As good as the lenses are, getting deep blacks and an actual HDR representation in PS5 games is a pretty solid trade off either way.
 
I got a PS5 Pro for Xmas, sort of regretting not picking one of these up when it was $300. I'm guessing maybe it'll go on sale again, though. I might also want to try it for PCVR.
 
Gonna be real, mura is so strong it might just be hiding the SDE visually. I actually tried two different PSVR 2 headsets and the mura is the same. I'm getting used to it but it's a major visual flaw. I played with the Quest 3 at work for about 30 minutes. Definitely no god rays and it is very clear (no mura). But it can't display black. Roughly what i expected. I would expect most people to prefer the Quest's appearance. But, after playing RE 4 remake in VR with HDR and deep blacks I don't think i care about any other game at the moment.
 
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I guess I don't even know what mura is. Ill try and pay attention next time i play but nothing stood out to me before.
 
I guess I don't even know what mura is. Ill try and pay attention next time i play but nothing stood out to me before.

If you don't see it, don't go looking for it. Once you start to notice mura, it's one of those things that grows and grows, you start noticing it every time you put on the headset. Ignorance is bliss in this situation :)
 
Gonna be real, mura is so strong it might just be hiding the SDE visually. I actually tried two different PSVR 2 headsets and the mura is the same. I'm getting used to it but it's a major visual flaw. I played with the Quest 3 at work for about 30 minutes. Definitely no god rays and it is very clear (no mura). But it can't display black. Roughly what i expected. I would expect most people to prefer the Quest's appearance. But, after playing RE 4 remake in VR with HDR and deep blacks I don't think i care about any other game at the moment.

Yeah, the Quest 3's LCD screens are never going to match an OLED display. But, I would bet any money that the headset you tried had the brightness up too high and had the contrast adaptive brightness control turned off. There is also a contrast option in the accessibility settings of the Quest 3. If you tinker with that setting and the brightness, you can get reasonably good black levels with minimum black crush. At least good for LCD :) And way better than what I was ever able to achieve with the Quest 2. Just if you are ever trying a Quest 3 headset again, give those settings a go.

Just going back to your Reverb G2, what you were probably noticing were lens defects. The G2 didn't have great lenses and had a very small sweet spot.

Mura is a big problem with the PSVR 2. Some people are lucky and can ignore it or live with it.
 
Yeah, the Quest 3's LCD screens are never going to match an OLED display. But, I would bet any money that the headset you tried had the brightness up too high and had the contrast adaptive brightness control turned off. There is also a contrast option in the accessibility settings of the Quest 3. If you tinker with that setting and the brightness, you can get reasonably good black levels with minimum black crush. At least good for LCD :) And way better than what I was ever able to achieve with the Quest 2. Just if you are ever trying a Quest 3 headset again, give those settings a go.

Just going back to your Reverb G2, what you were probably noticing were lens defects. The G2 didn't have great lenses and had a very small sweet spot.

Mura is a big problem with the PSVR 2. Some people are lucky and can ignore it or live with it.

I think a bigger problem for psvr2 might be the much higher persistence. It's set a lot higher than any other headset so they can have higher brightness and "HDR" but the high persistence causes way more motion blur which leads to motion sickness.
 
Yeah, the Quest 3's LCD screens are never going to match an OLED display. But, I would bet any money that the headset you tried had the brightness up too high and had the contrast adaptive brightness control turned off. There is also a contrast option in the accessibility settings of the Quest 3. If you tinker with that setting and the brightness, you can get reasonably good black levels with minimum black crush. At least good for LCD :) And way better than what I was ever able to achieve with the Quest 2. Just if you are ever trying a Quest 3 headset again, give those settings a go.

Just going back to your Reverb G2, what you were probably noticing were lens defects. The G2 didn't have great lenses and had a very small sweet spot.

Mura is a big problem with the PSVR 2. Some people are lucky and can ignore it or live with it.
I'll try it again some time, the PSVR 2 is fine but it's not a great headset. For a new 300 dollar unit, it's acceptable. RE 4 VR is just so much damn fun, and I have access to a PS 5 I don't own so that kind of pushed it over the edge. I'm not sure I'd get the headset without owning a PS 5 though. Without it the Quest is the superior choice if you can get it at a discount as well, that or the frame (depending on the price). It just made sense in this case and I'm enjoying it.
 
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And that's all that matters. We "enthusiasts" sometimes lose that ability to enjoy something. We spend so much time nit picking every little thing, that we forget to just put the headset on and play.
Yeah man if you can't get excited for some painful leon cringe and shooting ganados, dust yourself off because you're dead inside. If the game were on PC I'd be playing it there without question. Hell I'd probably spend a gillion dollars on a new pimax micro-led headset just to see it in all of it's glory.
 
Didn't even notice Hardforum had a VR section.

But yeah, I've been enjoying my PSVR2 exclusively on PC for a while.

120hz in Richard Burns Rally is terrific.

Stoked there is a 3rd party solution for eye tracking now. But we just need to see it more in games. Especially in a format that's compatible with AMD
 
I get why people like the Quest 3 more, but I just don't. Give me deep blacks all day. Mura isn't great but you do get used to it. Playing RE4 in VR was will probably remain one of my all time gaming experiences in my life time for a while. Having a true HDR presentation and deep blacks just adds so much to the immersive experience. If I'm walking down a dark hall way in a scary game, it needs to be dark. The game isn't the best "VR" experience ever, but it's one of the most fun games to use guns in in VR I've ever played. Arizona Sunshine kind of bored me a bit and felt too cartoony. RE 4 always feels good, and it's easily the best way to play it. I wish it was on PC so I could get 90+ fps, that's my only major complaint. I'm going to play Village soon, but I'd like to run through 7 on my PC on my OLED first.

For 300 bucks, probably my go to headset at the moment. I used the quest 3 from my office a bit, for PCVR I'd probably still use the PSVR. I might sneak away with it for a bit at some point to play batman tho.
 
One of these bundled with the Horizon game popped up on Amazon for $300 awhile back, I got an order in but it's still not shipped and I haven't seen it come back in-stock as new since. Hopefully I get it eventually...
 
I get why people like the Quest 3 more, but I just don't. Give me deep blacks all day. Mura isn't great but you do get used to it. Playing RE4 in VR was will probably remain one of my all time gaming experiences in my life time for a while. Having a true HDR presentation and deep blacks just adds so much to the immersive experience. If I'm walking down a dark hall way in a scary game, it needs to be dark. The game isn't the best "VR" experience ever, but it's one of the most fun games to use guns in in VR I've ever played. Arizona Sunshine kind of bored me a bit and felt too cartoony. RE 4 always feels good, and it's easily the best way to play it. I wish it was on PC so I could get 90+ fps, that's my only major complaint. I'm going to play Village soon, but I'd like to run through 7 on my PC on my OLED first.

For 300 bucks, probably my go to headset at the moment. I used the quest 3 from my office a bit, for PCVR I'd probably still use the PSVR. I might sneak away with it for a bit at some point to play batman tho.
They just released the RE4 remake pcvr mod:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXWV5gPzgLk
 
They just released the RE4 remake pcvr mod:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXWV5gPzgLk

I've never had luck with Preydog. I tried doing RE7 and the performance / look was always absymal. Also there's basically no vr interactions in this. The whole fun of the PSVR2 version is they way the guns behave tbh. Maybe if I get a 5090 or something some day I'll check it out. I really, really wanted to played RE 7 in vr. But the visual quality was so bad at acceptable framerates. Also there's this odd cross-hatching effect with the shadows even with the settings cranked. As soon as I uninstalled REFramework, and went into the Raytracing version of the game again, turned on my oled and played on my couch. Infinitely better than the mod, like not even close.
 
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Went to use my VR2 for like the 2nd time to play RE4 Remake on my PS5 and it would not progress past the main menu of the game where you have to press R2 (right trigger) to start the game. Turns out the R2 trigger was partially broken because there's a common issue on these where the contacts aren't cleaned properly during manufacturing, so the trigger is always reading as partially depressed and that will break the game. I saw many reporting this issue on brand new units. I tried RE8 and had the same exact issue as well.

Fortunately it's an easy fix with some electrical contact cleaner. So I ordered the cleaner and followed the same process as in this video and it's 100% fixed now. I'm just gonna post it here for anyone else who may be affected. It's possible your controllers are affected and it just hasn't broken any of your games so far like it does on the RE games. And the site shown there (https://hardwaretester.com/gamepad) immediately detects your controllers and provides a super fast and easy diagnostic interface for you to test with, so I'm bookmarking it for future use for sure.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2erg66E_QjQ
 
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Amazon never shipped my order from January and then after multiple support reps telling me it would ship "soon", they straight up cancelled the order. Of course, now it's unavailable new for anywhere near that price. Fuck em. I think I'll just wait and see what the Steam Frame brings, or whatever new Micro-OLED hotness comes out. I already have a Quest 3 and Index so I don't see a reason to buy this other than for the OLED panels.
 
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Amazon never shipped my order from January and then after multiple support reps telling me it would ship "soon", they straight up cancelled the order. Of course, now it's unavailable new for anywhere near that price. Fuck em. I think I'll just wait and see what the Steam Frame brings, or whatever new Micro-OLED hotness comes out. I already have a Quest 3 and Index so I don't see a reason to buy this other than for the OLED panels.
I feel like Micro-led + wireless at a reasonable price is where we'll see another VR take-off. It's going to be a while though lol. I haven't really used mine in a while because it's getting warm outside and I don't want a sweaty trashcan on my head. PSVR2 is great, but I wouldn't recommend it without a ps 5 tbh.
 
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