Yeah it should be like that. It should be like Oculus Cinema is in Gear VR, a big screen floating in front of your face. Sony gives you three sizes, one of them will be like a big Imax in front of your face, the medium one will be the sweet spot for seeing the whole screen and getting decent detail and I'm guessing the small one will be too low in detail to be all that great. Gear VR's cinema app actually would be very useable if it just had a better field of clear vision through the lenses. As it is in the Netflix app you have a nice big TV in front of you but the corners of your vision are blurry. I believe PSVR has better field of view and much better optics. Combined with the full RGB strip OLED and 120fps it should actually be a pretty good experience. You'll lose some fine detail in the image versus looking on a real tv of similar size, but it should be easily good enough to enjoy gaming and using other non VR apps!
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Yeah it should be like that. It should be like Oculus Cinema is in Gear VR, a big screen floating in front of your face. Sony gives you three sizes, one of them will be like a big Imax in front of your face, the medium one will be the sweet spot for seeing the whole screen and getting decent detail and I'm guessing the small one will be too low in detail to be all that great. Gear VR's cinema app actually would be very useable if it just had a better field of clear vision through the lenses. As it is in the Netflix app you have a nice big TV in front of you but the corners of your vision are blurry. I believe PSVR has better field of view and much better optics. Combined with the full RGB strip OLED and 120fps it should actually be a pretty good experience. You'll lose some fine detail in the image versus looking on a real tv of similar size, but it should be easily good enough to enjoy gaming and using other non VR apps!
What did PS i love you get wrong?
……forgetit
Member
Well PS I Love you used to be IGN's PlayStation section, so should we be surprised?
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Chû Totoro
Member
Ok good. It is a very good product imo too, particularly the Headset which is very very comfortable, not too heavy and doesn't feel cheap. Games at launch have variety and even if I find 400€ to be too much for me clearly if it's worth it for you then you'll have a great time. I wish I had more money available right now for crazy purchases like this one.
Have fun ! (I'm a little jealous... maybe Christmas... lol)
Well that's not right... How did you play it? It definitely should be head tracking, the full VR experience.
That seems insane. Do you recall the episode by chance?
PLASTICA-MAN
Member
floatstarpx
Member
I played it at EGX, and it had head tracking.
edit: it even had PS4 controller tracking (I could see where I was holding my controller while it was showing me the controls).
The Elite
BOSS
I am trying to make sense of that. They are charging full price for a PSVR game that doesn't even use headtracking.
Edit: Ah. Thanks floatstarpx.
We asked Sony reps and they told us that the game didn't have the head tracking feature at the moment. Maybe after launch with some patch.
mangochutney
Member
They don't charge until dispatch, though?
zackmorris
Member
There's a virtual theater they've talked about not sure if Netflix would work like that. Probably not, but either way the resolution is so low it wouldn't really be a good way to watch anything anyway
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
xKilltheMx
Member
What the fuck is this? Define what you mean by head tracking because I played the demo and looked at the seat behind my head and down at my VR arms and legs.
level1
Member
The fuck? It's bad enough we get less than half the demos US customers get, but now they're packed in a flimsy cardboard sleeve too? Straight up bullshit, sony.
Thanks mate
Youtube Gaming also did theirs live yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKqlx7ArLHE
What a mess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKqlx7ArLHE
What a mess.
No head tracking? I feel pretty confident that it tracked the movement of my head when I played it.
EDIT: saw your answer above... wtf why? That defeats the whole purpose... Why would that be something that they'd patch in later?
floatstarpx
Member
You can see the head tracking working very clearly at around 10 mins in on this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0HtSXKMd3c
Yautja_Warrior
Member
Nice to see the final box and what it all looks like. 13 days to go now, seems like forever since it was announced.
Looking forward to playing BattleZone again aswell as Driveclub, VR Worlds and Batman too.
Looking forward to playing BattleZone again aswell as Driveclub, VR Worlds and Batman too.
wtf? That's the most baseline requirement for VR
Some sleek packaging on the PSVR and of course the unit itself is very nicely designed in of itself but I didn't doubt that coming from Sony. Damn though I was planning on waiting to pick one up but the closer we get to release the more I want to do so. I need to stay strong, I'd like to get a PS4 Pro first before getting the PSVR but we shall see.
NotSmartEnough
Member
Someone doesn't know what they are talking about...
Of course it has head tracking. Look at the responses already, way to spread FUD.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Just go and watch some vids. It has headtracking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as_Q9GCbHwo&index=12&list=PLLUkxbIkknLuA_I16SY3vw0vPdvhgvyp-
EU get's the better lens cleaner tho - that thing is sexy as anything
Someone is running on fumes. Bad ones even. I would not worry about that statement. Been shown to be contradictory a few times already.
Kenzodielocke
Banned
Aren't there options to change that in VR games ?
zackmorris
Member
The physical copy? I'm sure it will be up again. I preordered from amazon but they didn't have a release date just a 12/30 place holder date. They also don't have any box art, just a screen shot. Seemed more like a placeholder listing
Yeah. I sure hope so. Looked really cool from what I saw. And I would prefer a physical copy. Plus it's cheaper with Prime discount.
……forgetit
Member
I saw it, it was the one after their initial PS4 Pro video, the whole team seemed to be in bad form over it. Even after a week of being able to gather info on it they were grossly misinformed.
Yeah, what frustrates me is that these guys are in a position most of us dream of yet they can't do a decent jod of it. Then they faff about with the lens cleaner at the end making a big joke of it?
Any of us could have done a million times better.
it seems to me that they really don't want the Pro to exist. Hell, it wouldn't surprise me if they still hold this grudge if the Pro is successful.
……forgetit
Member
Yeah. Colin had a big "what about the games!" Deal as if PS4 pro somehow took developers away from making games. He also asked for games that couldn't be done on last gen hardware but wouldn't take the Witcher 3 as a satisfying answer. He really came off as whiny threw the whole thing.
zackmorris
Member
At some point making new show after new show after new show to try and draw more money of people hurts your brand.
There's a button that extends the headset and another that alters how close the screen is to your eyes. It has a nice range of movement. I have a large head myself but the headset fits me fine
Nah, I got a much better job...
What I find really frustrating is that there are hundreds of thousand people with even less technical knowledge who watch this and believe these people must know their stuff, because they are the professionals. They should really care what they are talking about and try to inform themselves, but alas...
I don't think you're calling head tracking what we're calling head tracking...
Edit: looks like you can lock your vision to the pad, but head tracking has clearly been shown in Battlezone.
Jesus, she really just throws it around huh. I cringed a little when she snapped the strap on the box. I half expected her to break the actual headset too.
MoneyLaunderer
Member
Am I wrong or are you getting the new camera if you bought the $500 bundle? Looks as if that is the case. Nice.
The Elite
BOSS
I was nervous for the guy sitting next to her when she was waiving around that knife.