Rumors about a new generation of virtual reality headsets from Sony have been circulating for a long time, but yesterday, January 4, the Japanese giant officially spoke about this device and revealed the main characteristics of the future gadget. The PlayStation VR2 headset (with the name the insiders guessed it) has acquired very advanced OLED displays with a resolution of 2000 × 2040 pixels (per eye) with an impressive viewing angle of 110 degrees. Moreover, the manufacturer said that the new device will provide the user with a frame rate of 90 to 120 Hz, providing the gamer’s eyes with the smoothest picture possible in video games.
Separately, a representative of the Sony company focused on supporting 4K HDR – the image in front of the user’s eyes will be sufficiently contrasting and dense to make the virtual world seem even more real. Also, the design of the new helmet provides four cameras on the outside of the case, which will track the movements of the headset and the latest VR2 Sense controllers in space (these cameras work in a single system together with an accelerometer and a three-axis gyroscope). Inside the helmet there are infrared cameras, the main task of which is to track the movement of the gamer’s eyes.
The developers from Sony said that these sensors will be used in gameplay as an additional source of input – for example, a gamer will need to look at a certain point in order to activate a gameplay element or a plot cutscene. Naturally, it was also not without a feedback system – the helmet is equipped with many advanced vibration motors that will transmit to the user an increase in the character’s pulse or various events in the virtual world (the technology is supplemented by the Tempest 3D AudioTech surround sound system). But there is almost no information about VR2 Sense – Sony only said that the controller received all the features of DualSense.
And in honor of the preliminary announcement of the second generation of the VR headset (there is no information on the price and release, as well as images of the headset itself), Sony has officially announced Horizon Call of the Mountain – the first game for the PlayStation VR2. This is another part in the Horizon franchise, but with its own protagonist, which is created specifically in order to reveal the possibilities of the new platform. They promise incredible graphics, the deepest degree of immersion in virtual travel and convenient gameplay with new controllers – no release date has been announced either.
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