Without revealing how it looks, Sony has made it known that a PlayStation VR2 headset exists. Some specifics about this upcoming device have been made known though, while the company has even said that its new controllers will be called Sense controllers. Complementing this announcement was a reveal of the VR game, Horizon Call of the Mountain, which is meant for the new device.
These details about PlayStation VR2 were revealed during Sony’s CES 2022 keynote. The company has said that the headset will come with a 4K HDR OLED panel that will give a 110-degree field of view to the wearer. The resolution will be 2000 x 2040 pixels per eye, while the frame rates will vary from 90Hz to 120Hz.
The PlayStation VR2 will bring with it haptic feedback for specific areas of the head. Support for foveated rendering will also be there, allowing the headset to use eye-tracking technology to render specific areas of the picture and reduce the image quality in the peripheral vision, thus relieving the rendering workload greatly.
The PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers may have a name now but they were revealed earlier by Sony. These orb-like controllers wrap around each hand and feature everything from adaptive triggers and haptic feedback to finger touch detection for your thumb, index and middle digits.
The flagship game for this upcoming VR headset will be Horizon Call of the Mountain, a first-person experience set in the Horizon universe and featuring a new protagonist. Just 20 seconds of in-game footage was revealed by Sony so there’s no clear idea of what this game will bring with it. What we do know is that it’s being developed Guerrilla Games in collaboration with Astro’s Playroom-makers Firesprite.
There’s no word on when the PlayStation VR2 headset will be released or what kind of price it will retail at. We guess Sony’s real concern at the moment would be to have at least enough PS5s out there to connect the VR device to.