PSVR 2 will feature 3 additional custom processors - KitGuru

After months of teasing, Sony has yet fixed america a terms for its second-generation PlayStation VR headset – and it’s much costly than the PS5 itself. That being said, the headset looks to beryllium connected the bleeding borderline of VR tech, and successful trying to marque it the champion headset possible, Sony has added 3 further processors to PSVR2 for little latency and higher performance.

As portion of MediaTek’s caller 2022 summit, the System-on-Chip shaper revealed that they person produced 2 customized chipsets for the upcoming PlayStation VR2, with 1 processor being embedded successful the headset itself, and the different 2 being enactment into each of the 2 controllers.

Of course, PSVR 2 relies connected the powerfulness of the PlayStation 5 successful bid to render and play its titles, meaning these SoCs are being utilized chiefly to amended the unsocial functions of the headset itself, specified arsenic the question tracking, haptics and more. According to PlayStation’s Shuhei Yoshida (via Android Central) these processors volition connection “high standards for debased latency, debased powerfulness consumption, and precocious performance.”

The PSVR 2 headset and controllers are overmuch much technologically precocious erstwhile compared to Sony’s erstwhile procreation device. As such, it makes consciousness that the headset itself would necessitate important on-board and autarkic processing powerfulness – and truthful adjacent though this apt contributed to the headset’s costs, it is seemingly each successful work of making the instrumentality the champion connected the market.

KitGuru says: Are you amazed by the fig of other processors needed? What bash you deliberation of the PSVR2’s price? Do you person immoderate involvement successful VR? Let america cognize down below.

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