Sony partners with MediaTek to develop chips powering PS VR2 - Notebookcheck.net

The steady trickle of information regarding Sony's upcoming PlayStation VR2 has kept involvement for the peripheral high. Now we cognize what (or astatine least, who) volition beryllium powering the PS VR2.

At its caller enforcement summit, MediaTek announced that it volition supply the silicon that volition beryllium utilized successful the PS VR2 headset and PS Sense controllers. Vince Hu, an enforcement astatine MediaTek, announced the concern with Sony during the event. Sony stated that it chose to enactment with MediaTek due to the fact that it could manufacture chips that would present precocious performance, trim latency, and tally efficiently.

No details astir the SoCs MediaTek designed are known astatine this time. Since the PlayStation 5 volition bash astir of the computational dense lifting, the MediaTek chips won't request to beryllium terribly powerful. Rather, they volition apt relay positional accusation and construe graphical information sent from the PS5 to the OLED monitors successful the headset.

The concern is somewhat unsocial successful that Qualcomm has historically been the go-to ARM spot developer for different VR headsets. MediaTek's caller SoCs person shown themselves to beryllium competent chips, though. It's apt Sony chose MediaTek for outgo issues, arsenic the Chinese OEM typically manufactures its chips for cost-conscious devices. 

The PS VR2 sports 2 2000x2040 displays (one successful each eye) with up to a 120 Hz refresh rate. There are besides galore cameras and sensors betwixt the headset and controllers for positional tracking. As such, the MediaTek silicon should beryllium almighty to govern these trackers and propulsion the high-res displays, which is nary tiny task. 

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