Khalifa Jayy
Banned
That little box? Its not like doing all the graphics rendering for VR, he explained. Thats not what it does. Its just a little breakout box. But, because we want the best possible image to be in the headset, all that pre-computation of making everything in the right warped way for the optics of the headset is all done on the PlayStation and thats shipped over to the headset. So the PlayStation does all that heavy work, gets it all ready for the headset.
Now, if you just wanted to show that on the TV, first of all the TV wouldnt even accept that signal, and second of all it would be in this warped looking way and thats not what we really want people to have to look at. So that little box is just kind of undoing some of the stuff thats already been done just so you can put it on a television set. Thats what its there for.
The breakout box also apparently processes 3D audio, which is important for VR. And since that box is already there it has enough horsepower to do the 3D audio part that I mentioned. So there is where the little bit of 3D audio processing is. Its not little but its a lot less than a PS4s worth of processing power, Marks concluded.
http://www.mritricks.com/sony-clarifies-what-play-station-vrs-mystery-external-box-does/
Fight me in a VR setting if old.