As thePlayStation VR2is now available to everyone, a YouTuber decided to dismount PlayStation’s virtual reality headset to inspect its components further and discovered a controversial detail about its display panel. ThePS VR2brought many improvements compared to its 2016’s predecessor, but this discovery about its display panel may upset some virtual reality enthusiasts.
ThePS VR2 came out on February 22, offering virtual reality fans a new headset with next-gen technology. PlayStation’s latest virtual reality headset comes with an OLED panel with a 4K display resolution and 90Hz/120Hz frame rate that supports HDR, a field of view of approximately 110 degrees, four cameras mounted on the headset to track players’ movements, and six-axis motion sensors. The PS VR2 also includes new controllers with haptic feedback able to detect finger touches and enhanced eye-tracking technology to further improve players' immersion in the games they are playing.
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Whendismounting a PS VR2 to inspect its components, Shahram Mokhtari discovered an interesting detail about the subpixel arrangement of PlayStation’s virtual reality headset. While the original PS VR included a full RGB arrangement for each pixel, the PS VR2 comes with a PenTile display that has the full number of green subpixels but only half the number of red and blue subpixels. This PenTile subpixel arrangement makes the image seem softer, but comes at the cost of a loss of visual detail compared to full RGB panels.
This different subpixel arrangement means that despite having 4 million pixels per eye compared to the 1 million pixels per eye its predecessor offered, the PS VR2 only has 8.1 million subpixels per eye instead of 3.1 million, which is an 89% percent increase compared to the 120% increase in the number of pixels per eye. While this number is still significant, it is less impressive and doesn’t guarantee an image quality four times better than the previous version of PlayStation’s virtual reality headset. This new PlayStation virtual reality headset still comes with its share of graphical improvements, including theimpressive PS VR2 cinematic mode for PlayStation 5 players.
Despite coming with fewer subpixels per eye than some fans could have hoped for, the PS VR2 still offers a better graphical quality than its predecessor thanks to its OLED panel guaranteeing vibrant colors and intense contrast. PlayStation 5 players are able to try thePS VR2 with a large range of games available at its launch, such asBeat Saber,Gran Turismo 7,No Man’s Sky, andHorizon Call of the Mountain.
PlayStation VR2is available for PlayStation 5 users.
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