PSVR 2

Just put Jurassic World on and got some nausea after about 10 mins. First time that’s happened.
Will have to ease into that one slowly this week.

I still like my Index, but I’m mainly looking for something higher res for flight sim. Apparently HP is going to stop producing the Reverb G2 (which is 4K) so hoping to pick one of those up cheaply.

The blunt truth is any progression in VR is going to be gradual. Every headset both old and new has limitations. Sony has made a solid step in comparison to the original PSVR and older PCVR systems. It's currently held back by the PS5 which has a 2070 level GPU. The reprojection in Horizon is proof of this. I assume a PS5 Pro may be a viable upgrade when it comes.

Managed to give my brother's headset a quick 10 minute go this afternoon and it is definitely a step up on the Vive, although not as bigger a difference as I would have expected. The screen door effect is basically not there at all, so I had an immediate wow moment when I put it on. Just as the screen door effect becomes less noticeable when not trying to look at fine detail though, that impact fades fairly quickly.

The image quality was clearly very good. I may have not had it fully configured for me though, as I felt it was perhaps a bit blurry. Besides configing it for my eyes, I suspect much of that is to do with it being rendered on a PS5 and there really is a limitation to how good the image can look, even with foveated rendering. Made me wish that we could really push the screen to its limits on PC.

The tracking seemed just ok and it did lose itself a couple of times. I was using it as it was starting to get dark and the light wasn't on, so perhaps that was causing a few problems.

Controllers seemed pretty good. I'm used to the Index controllers and do feel I still prefer those, but I could see myself getting used to these just fine. The finger tracking isn't quite as good, but also does as much as it really needs to.

It was a slightly restricted space he has it in, so I was constantly leaving the boundary of the play area. It had a really aggressive switch to showing the play area and dimming the game, which was really annoying. I'm sure there is a system setting he hadn't tweaked to turn that off or increase the opacity. Similarly, the game (Horizon) kept narrowing the fov. It will be a comfort setting somewhere, but had a look in the menus and couldn't see it.

So, yeah, definitely a good bit of kit and I can imagine it is mind-blowing for someone who either hasn't used VR or only used the first PS headset. From a PCVR user it isn't quite as good, but still really good. As I say, I only tried it very briefly and it clearly wasn't set up for me and for my preferences. With tweaking of the settings, I'm sure it would be an improved experience.

I'm probably still not going to get one, unless there is a huge glut of exclusives. PC support would tempt me, but I think I would probably prefer to see a new Valve headset that included things like eye tracking and perhaps a slightly bigger fov with similar resolution. Chances of that coming out soon is unlikely though.

I freaking love VR. Regardless of tech specs and stuff, now that all the current sets are at a place were it comfortably sells the illusion of being "in" the game it's like videogame magic. It's just so cool, leaning around corners hiding from stuff, or dodging bullets and shooting back.
And I like that, for a lot of things, it's more pick-up and playable and immersive for non-gamers too. Seeing my gf dancing about playing music games, and requesting to play them, is great. For the most part I don't care if she, or others, don't care for my hobbies, but it's really nice to find that thing that captures her interest in the way that a lot of games do for me.

Still haven't touched Horizon, GT or Moss yet.

The Brook Ras1ution converters work with the G27. Sadly, for the PS5 I think you'd need the Ras1ution 2, which is a fair pricier than the original. I'm not sure on that though, so it's worth taking a look.

I feel like the balance between climbing and combat isn’t quite right. The combat as you say is really fun, but it’s seemingly used as a palette cleanse between the much longer climbing sections (which are also fun but get a bit much imo). 

Yeah the game does feel like 80% climbing and the rest combat and walking. It is probably a bit much. Think it just does about enough to spice it up by introducing a new climbing tool now and again. Enjoying it though. Would say it’s one for fans of the series, otherwise maybe wait for a price drop.

Climbing in Blood & Truth on the skyscraper level was fun, holding on with one hand as you popped some goon with a shotgun in the other. Shame that never looks like it'll get a port, better controls and free movement would have been great.

London Studio are doing an online MP title and seem to have left VR behind, maybe someone else will pick up the mantle.

If your wear glasses just for screen (and your long-site is ok) then don't use them. VR is focal distance is not based on how close the lenses are to the screen but about 2m in front.

Been wanting to play Demeo but I don't know anyone who has it. As an old school RPGer it looks right up my alley.

Ideal cheers, I won’t bother with the glasses then.

Talking of Demeo, I’d love to play Gloomhaven in VR when it comes out on consoles.

I brought Thumper today. It’s very good. Havn’t played anything quite like it. Would recommend it.

Pistol Whip is great but not exactly chill. Kayak is cool but very light on content.
I've not played the other two, though I have the Moss collection waiting. Jake Baldino was pretty positive on Tentacular when I watched his VR roundup video yesterday.