PlayStation VR requires at least 60 sq ft of space, and expects you to sit down while you use it
A guide found on Sony's PlayStation Asia website also recommends you try the headset first before you go out and spend hundreds of dollars.
A user guide published on Sony's PlayStation Asia website (via GameSpot) explains that PlayStation VR requires a minimum of 60 square feet of space, and is designed to be used while seated.
You might wonder why the PSVR demands so much real estate if you don't have to be up and moving about while using it. As the graphic from PlayStation Asia shows, the PlayStation camera has to project in a wide area around you. Objects in its path could interfere with the technology.
Sony's user guide advises consumers inexperienced with VR headsets to try PSVR before they buy it, so that they have an idea of how they feel before plunking down hundreds of dollars on the device. "PS VR uses 3D vision technology. As there are individual difference in viewing 3D graphics and feeling of wearing VR headset, please try PS VR at shops or trial events before purchase."
Sony clearly anticipated that VR wouldn't sit well with everyone, and wants to give them ample opportunity to take PSVR for a spin. Back in June, they started rolling out trial units to GameStop and Best Buy locations. You can check to see if stores near you have a trial kiosk by heading to the PlayStation site and entering your zip code.
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It isn't poor.
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That's probably just general advice. I used PSVR at E3 to play Resident Evil 7 and had zero issues. It was my first time playing a VR game, too.
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It's pretty solid, not as good as vive or oculus but it's pretty damned good for the price.
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I found the demo I tried to be pretty solid.
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so the headset is wireless?
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lol no
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so what happens if i sit like 15ft away from my tv/console?
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No, my biggest complaint about it is all the damned cables and shit you need to use it. The demo unit had multiple USB cables plugged into some ugly hub thing that was plugged into the console.
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the additional latency is a much bigger problem than the battery power. HoloLens is already doing a full battery powered computer on your head, and Gear VR as well.
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Why not just have a power cord then
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The best wireless experience possible is gearvr with lighthouse tracking
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Isn't that just the camera coverage area?
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It is, but the camera works in conjunction with the headset. You need both, and the PlayStation Asia website and a Sony sales brochure that Polygon found show the camera projection area at 1.9m x 3.0m. Convert meters to feet, multiply length by width to get area, and there you go.
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Okay.
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And they are all wrong because I've used dev kits sitting right in front of the camera (was at a VR hack event).
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After using the vive for quite a lot of time, the most thrilling aspect of VR to me is room scale. Being able to naturally step forward or backward, crouching and looking under a table, and being perfectly projected into the space as a human being are what works for me. I am not sure about being forced to sit down, other than certain platforms such as racing and office chair simulator, is taking it far enough.
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That's like the size of my sex dungeon.
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