The venture to make PlayStation VR2 work as a PC SteamVR headset simply received headset location monitoring working.
PSVR 2 already technically runs on PC, with no third-party instruments or drivers, simply in “cinema mode” the place it reveals your monitor floating in entrance of you, and solely on particular NVIDIA 20-series GPUs. On PC, this mode can be lacking of location monitoring.
iVRy, the developer of one of many third-party SteamVR drivers for the unique PlayStation VR, has been experimenting with PSVR 2 since having access to the headset in late February. Two weeks in the past iVRy received SteamVR output engaged on the headset, with one main caveat: they used a Linux PC with customized software program as a “man within the center” between PSVR 2 and PC.
The PSVR 2 venture on PC will get SteamVR working, however vital caveats
The PSVR 2 venture on PC has SteamVR output working, however with out monitoring and a customized adapter can be required.
On the time, we seen that the opposite massive caveat was that there was no monitoring, neither positional nor rotational. However iVRy at this time mentioned they discovered methods to learn 6DoF positional monitoring information from PSVR 2 and ship it to SteamVR. iVRy tells us they’ve verified it really works by strolling into SteamVR whereas carrying PSVR 2.
iVRy says that is doable as a result of the PSVR 2 does onboard location monitoring, like a standalone headset would, and sends its location coordinates to the PlayStation 5 or, on this case, PC.
Nevertheless, iVRy at present solely makes use of the 60Hz pc imaginative and prescient monitoring information and never the 2000Hz accelerometer and gyroscope (IMU) information as nicely. All VR monitoring methods truly use the IMU information as the principle enter to scale back decrease latency and maximize accuracy, with optical monitoring information technically solely used to appropriate for drift.
The venture additionally at present does not have Sense controller monitoring working but, however iVRy says controller ring infrared LED sample monitoring can be completed on board the PSVR 2 headset, so there’s “no purpose to suppose” which in the long run it won’t be doable to acquire even by working.
A (partially populated) rendering of the Raspberry Pico based mostly DP-AUX emulator board. pic.twitter.com/kyRCw4xrvs
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However controller monitoring is not iVRy’s subsequent speedy precedence. What they’re principally engaged on now could be changing the Linux PC intermediary – which primarily tips the Home windows PC GPU into treating the PSVR 2 as a VR headset – with a Raspberry Pi Pico.
This is able to function a reference design for a possible adapter to permit finish customers to attach PSVR 2 to their PC through DisplayPort. iVRy says that whereas they’re designing this adapter, they don’t have any plans to supply it. One other firm should truly produce it and promote it to finish customers.
So PlayStation VR2 can now operate as a PC SteamVR headset and likewise has location monitoring, however nonetheless requires a particular customized {hardware} and software program setup. A completed adapter for finish customers remains to be a great distance off, and no firm has but introduced plans to supply it.
