For one, it’s very difficult to bring the picture clearly into focus. That feature doesn’t exist on the DualSense, so I had to dust off a dead controller, charge it, and sync it to my console before I could play.Īfter a long, long buildup, I finally got into Moss: Book 2, only to be reminded of how dated the actual hardware is. As a final complication, the PS camera tracks movement using the lightbar on the back of the PS5’s DualShock 4 controller. For one, the camera won’t connect to the PS5 without a specific adapter that has to be specially ordered from Sony (thankfully, I had one on hand). Since the headset was built for the PS4, it doesn’t perfectly adapt to new hardware. Speaking of the PS5, the current-gen console has only complicated the setup further. The PlayStation VR2 will hook up to a PS5 with one single wire. On top of that, the device needs a PlayStation camera to function, adding one last connection. That’s all before getting to the HDMI setup, which requires the box to connect to both the TV and console separately.

That black box needs to be plugged into an outlet for power, as well as connected to a PlayStation through a USB port.

A wire that splits into two connections links the headset to the processor. That’s due to the fact that the headset comes with its own external processing unit, a black box that acts as a middleman between console and headset. The setup requires six different wires in total.

The convoluted setup only sticks out more than six years later, especially next to something as elegant as the Meta Quest 2. The headset, which launched in 2016, was already a bit of a mess to hook up at the time. If you’ve never set up a PS VR before, you might be surprised by how complicated the process is.

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