CES 2023: 4 Next-Gen VR Headsets To Check Out At The Show - Forbes

Virtual world is acceptable to beryllium a cardinal inclination of CES 2023, with astatine slightest 4 caller headsets expected to diagnostic astatine the show.

Let’s instrumentality a look astatine each of the 4 models, with details from leaked information, oregon authoritative statements by their manufacturers.

Looking for the Meta Quest 3? While it volition reportedly motorboat successful 2023, it is improbable to look astatine CES 2023.

Sony PSVR 2

The biggest sanction successful VR we’re apt to spot astatine CES 2023 is Sony’s PSVR 2. Sony announced the last details of this much-teased headed successful November 2022. And with the archetypal units shipping from February 2022, CES offers 1 of the past large tech events astatine which it tin top-up the hype.

As the details of the hardware are already known, Sony whitethorn usage this spotlight to amusement disconnected immoderate of the gaming experiences coming to PSVR 2.

The Sony PSVR 2 costs $549.99, uses OLED show tech and solution of 2000 x 2040 pixels per eye. It is lone compatible with the PS5 console, uses 4 cameras for question tracking, and has oculus tracking.

Games confirmed for PSVR 2 see the upcoming Resident Evil 4 remake, Horizon Call of the Mountain and No Man’s Sky.

HTC standalone headset

If the PSVR 2 is the biggest sanction successful VR astatine CES 2023, HTC whitethorn instrumentality the grant for the astir absorbing announcement. It is acceptable to denote a standalone alternate to the Meta Quest 2, which the institution has confirmed to The Verge.

HTC says it aims to beryllium a much privacy-led alternate to the Quest 2, which besides means it is improbable to beryllium capable to vie connected price. However, it is expected to usage pancake lenses, which should connection amended optics than the fresnel lenses of the Quest 2.

It’s besides reported to person high-quality colour passthrough cameras, making it acold amended for augmented oregon mixed world apps.

Somnium VR1

Somnium is simply a Web3 and “blockchain” company, but its Somnium VR1 headset hardware volition beryllium shown astatine CES 2023. It’s an “open source” headset that requires a PC to beryllium used, truthful should entreaty to the PC gaming crowd.

The Somnium VR1 uses 2 2,880 × 2,880 pixel LCD screens, offering acold higher solution than the 1,832 x 1920 of the Meta Quest 2.

It volition connection some manus and oculus tracking, and a headphone jack. You’ll beryllium capable to usage this headset cabled, oregon with wireless video transportation from a PC utilizing WiFi 6e.

The VR1 is simply a highly modular design, and the thought is owners tin change the headset utilizing 3D-printable blueprints that volition beryllium disposable to download. How overmuch the Somnium VR1 volition outgo is arsenic yet unknown.

Sharp “ultra-high resolution” headset

Sharp itself has confirmed it volition amusement a VR headset astatine CES 2023.

“Sharp volition grounds for the archetypal clip an ultra-lightweight HMD prototype for VR equipped with its latest devices,” the institution wrote connected its website.

Sharp makes a clump of components that spell into VR headsets. The astir absorbing successful this peculiar lawsuit is astir apt an “ultra-high-resolution display” panel.

At this constituent it is not wide whether the Sharp headset volition enactment arsenic a showpiece for the company’s technologies, to beryllium utilized successful different headsets, oregon if Sharp intends to wide nutrient and merchantability this existent model. Sharp was acquired by Foxconn successful 2016.