The new generation of gaming is already here, but while PS5 has been impressing us for over a year now PSVR2 is still just over the horizon. We know the new virtual reality hardware will be swoopy and white like the base console, but its looks are just one of many reasons why the next generation of VR will be a head-turner. Stick with us as we dig into why you should be excited for PSVR2.
THE HEADSET
“[THE PLAYER’S GAZE IS] A NEW FORM OF INPUT.”
Go on, strap a screen to your face
The headset includes a slew of new features. One of the most, ahem, eye-grabbing of these is something called ‘foveated rendering’. This means the headset cleverly tracks what you’re looking directly at and then only renders in detail that part of the screen. As a rendering technique, it definitely presents outside-the-box thinking, so we’re asking Brendan Walker, principal engineer at VR developer Polyarc, for his expert perspective.
“[In] the human eye it turns out there’s
