Does this work without the PSVR camera?

[Pebbleheed]

Hi,

Can I buy this, link up my PSVR headset to my PC and just use it for VR games without having to set up any cameras or sensors?

[cheater]

Yes

[Pebbleheed]

Thanks for confirming. For some reason I couldn’t find that out on any website.

Is the experience any good like this?

I would love a PC headset but at present I’m not spending cash with the virus issues and the potential financial issues that are going to hit us. So using my existing psvr seems to make sense.

[cheater]

Yeah, it's good. By comparison to Trinus PSVR, this is a better product: no external application to run, and bug reports get handled pretty rapidly. The Trinus dev is always slow to fix things. There's a bug that's been in Trinus for months now where subsequent frames are overlapped, so everything looks fuzzy, and he hasn't fixed it. However, some feature requests for stuff that I would find pretty important in iVRy have been met with a direct NO, so I guess there's no perfect project here. Visually, iVRy gives much better image quality (just make sure to enable direct mode). However, there are some issues too, eg recently the orientation starts up a bit tilted for me and no amount of re-calibration or resetting helps this. And the lenses are a bit distorted (stretched out) by the very edge of the video, the dev proposed a solution but I think that's not it. If you already have a PSVR, I don't know of any other project, other than iVRy and Trinus, that supports this, and this one is clearly the better one. If you don't own a VR headset, a PSVR is 120 Hz, which I believe no other headsets in its price range can do. So it easily outclasses everything else.

[iVRy]

Originally posted by Pebbleheed:

Is the experience any good like this?

It's 3DOF and lacks motion controllers without additional hardware/software. For the majority of seated VR titles the lack of 6DOF does not have a large impact on the playability. When looking for compatible VR titles, you should look for those that are seated/standing (as opposed to room scale) and support a gamepad controller. These will all be indicated on the titles Steam store page.

[cheater]

That's a great way to put it.

[iVRy]

Originally posted by cheater00:

However, some feature requests for stuff that I would find pretty important in iVRy have been met with a direct NO

It doesn't matter whether you find stuff important or not, it matters whether they are generally useful, whether other users have requested them and whether I believe they belong in the product or not. I have implemented other users' suggestions when they fit into the above criteria. Yours do not.

[cheater]

That's ok, i'm just describing my personal experience, other people's experience will be different :)

[Pebbleheed]

Thanks.

I’ll use this for now. I intend to get a full pc headset later but not for a while due to the virus outbreak and wanting to save some cash to prepare for any issues that may be ahead.

[cheater]

you'll be hard pressed to find a better vr headset for the pc than the psvr, at least under $1000

[Pebbleheed]

Would you recommend it over the Oculus Rift S?

[iVRy]

Originally posted by Pebbleheed:

Would you recommend it over the Oculus Rift S?

No, the Oculus Rift S is better than the PSVR in every way, apart from refresh rate. The tracking and controllers on the Rift S can only be matched/surpassed by using the PSVR with Lighthouse base stations and Index controllers. That configuration only makes sense as a eventual upgrade to an Index or Vive Pro headset (buy some of the hardware now, use it with a PSVR, buy the headset later), and will cost more than a Rift S.