So, by the time I sat down last night after doing what you do of an evening it was pretty late so decided to just unpacked my new PSVR and take a look at it.
It’s pretty good quality thought for what is the low end of the complete VR experience I suppose.
Once I’d had a mooch around it all and sussed it all out I was invested so decided to give it a quick trail run.
Man, there’s some cables with all this isn’t there
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and this is the 2nd revision which has less !!!
Anyway, I hooked it all up to my PS4Pro and started it up.
GT Sport had a 45GB download and the other software I had was very quickly downloading but I wanted to jump in quick, the game I had in the drive Wipeout so I booted that up in the headset.
At this point, I’ll add – I’d never even touched a VR headset let alone tried one, so I had no idea what it was going to be like.
Firstly, I was very pleased with how comfortable the headset was and how weirdly natural it felt. I don’t know what I was expecting but it was unnoticeable once you’re invested in what’s being pumped into your eyes.
The Wipeout menu floated in front of me and I was spun out by the open vast white spaces around me as I turned my head – very surreal, very, very cool.
I quickly spammed X to get into the first race and I loaded into the cockpit of my sled in the default VR settings.
Man, what a view, the whole thing, seeing the flaps of my sled balance and float to either side of me and HUD of the sled right in front of my face was – incredible.
Being familiar with a game, then seeing like this was such a rich experience.
I missed the start of the race as I was looking about and getting a used to moving my head about, literally laughing
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Then I set off and its great, the feeling of inertia and momentum is there, I was lifting my torso and leaning my shoulders as if I was driving a real car on track.
I was caught in two minds, as I wanted to escape the experience for a second to catch my breath but wasn’t sure how to get out of the headset properly and the whole time laughing to myself about how different it was and how immersive it all was too me.
I did a few more races and soon managed to shake the VR naivety from my head and put some proper racing in – which felt great, really, really good.
I then switched it off and left the console to download the games and patches I got with my bundle so that I can properly mess with it tonight and see some other things, maybe use those motion tracker batons I have too.
Two things of note that came as a surprise to me, the lack of quality in the ear buds, sound wise. I appreciate it’s maybe unfair to compare them to my Audio-Techina’s but I certainly noticed the difference and secondly the low resolution of the headset. Which I must add, was only a literally few seconds that I considered it but being used to seeing the game in 4K then stepping down to the lower resolution is obvious but takes nothing away from the experience at all I think.
I’m really looing forward to messing about with this some more and getting some new experiences from games that have never been available to me prior.