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I put a PS4 VR set on my head at my relatives over the holidays and I could not have been more disappointed. They had just been gifted it for Christmas and wer

I put a PS4 VR set on my head at my relatives over the holidays and I could not have been more disappointed. They had just been gifted it for Christmas and were trying out all of the demos. I put it on and while I could rotate my head in any direction like I was living inside some google maps experiment almost... The picture was extremely blurry and the entire experience gave me a headache... after probably only 10 minutes of use. I am not surprised that experience hasn't "taken off" yet. It was terrible. I can't believe somebody paid good money for that. As soon as I put it on all I could think was "damnit, we're still 20 years out from this actually working like we expect it to".

berdon 7y ago
Did you try fixing the focus?
- flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
  I was pulling the goggles away from and closer to my face if that's what you mean, I believe that was the only focus mechanism.
  - berdon 7y ago
    https://support.playstation.com/s/article/PS-VR-Blurry-Picture-Issues?language=en_US https://support.playstation.com/s/article/PS-VR-Blurry-Pictu...
cybwraith 7y ago
The PSVR is the lowest-resolution "high end" VR headset out there, and is on the underpowered PS4 hardware, with poor controller tracking and lots of motion blur and downsampling to make the games even run. You really ought to try an Oculus Quest or Rift S/Vive Pro. PSVR has 1080 vertical pixels, Quest has 1600 vertical pixels, much better lenses, and much better controllers. Not to mention the games run much more smoothly
- flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
  Alright thanks for that! My hopes for an impending VR future are no longer as dim. I didn't realize the PSVR came out in 2016 when I tried it. I figured it was brand new this year.
sp332 7y ago
Practice does help. Many short sessions help more than trying to tough out one longer session. http://elevr.com/yoga-for-building-vr-tolerance/ http://elevr.com/yoga-for-building-vr-tolerance/ I know it's natural to pick on the resolution as the reason it doesn't feel right, but our brains are more sensitive to other things when it comes to the feeling of "being there". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness#Technical_aspects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness#Techn... I don't think it's going to take 20 years to address these, not with the amount of R&D being thrown at it.
- sp332 7y ago
  Ah, the first blog post I linked seems to be dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20190629222643/http://elevr.com/yoga-for-building-vr-tolerance/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190629222643/http://elevr.com/...

berdon 7y ago

Did you try fixing the focus?

flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
I was pulling the goggles away from and closer to my face if that's what you mean, I believe that was the only focus mechanism.
- berdon 7y ago
  https://support.playstation.com/s/article/PS-VR-Blurry-Picture-Issues?language=en_US https://support.playstation.com/s/article/PS-VR-Blurry-Pictu...

cybwraith 7y ago

The PSVR is the lowest-resolution "high end" VR headset out there, and is on the underpowered PS4 hardware, with poor controller tracking and lots of motion blur and downsampling to make the games even run. You really ought to try an Oculus Quest or Rift S/Vive Pro. PSVR has 1080 vertical pixels, Quest has 1600 vertical pixels, much better lenses, and much better controllers. Not to mention the games run much more smoothly

flyGuyOnTheSly 7y ago
Alright thanks for that! My hopes for an impending VR future are no longer as dim. I didn't realize the PSVR came out in 2016 when I tried it. I figured it was brand new this year.

sp332 7y ago

Practice does help. Many short sessions help more than trying to tough out one longer session. http://elevr.com/yoga-for-building-vr-tolerance/ http://elevr.com/yoga-for-building-vr-tolerance/ I know it's natural to pick on the resolution as the reason it doesn't feel right, but our brains are more sensitive to other things when it comes to the feeling of "being there". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness#Technical_aspects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_reality_sickness#Techn... I don't think it's going to take 20 years to address these, not with the amount of R&D being thrown at it.

sp332 7y ago
Ah, the first blog post I linked seems to be dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20190629222643/http://elevr.com/yoga-for-building-vr-tolerance/ https://web.archive.org/web/20190629222643/http://elevr.com/...