PSVR felt like a solution hurriedly thrown together to make the most of an emerging trend.
Its successor, the PlayStation VR 2, is the opposite in almost every way.
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This kind of care and consideration put into comfort extends to more essential parts of the experience.
This time around, it’s as simple as plugging a single wire into the front of the PS5.
From there, the PS5 recognizes that a PSVR 2 has been connected and runs the software setup.
Most people won’t be able to play in perfect conditions, however.
Despite these less-than-optimal conditions, I didn’t have many issues while using the headset.
This seemed more pronounced in the evenings, when there was much less light.
There’s nothing more to setting up the PSVR 2 than that.
But where it gets complicated is the games.
That is, for me, the enduring magic of VR.
Playing Horizon Call of the Mountain makes the PSVR 2 sing, and it’s a beautiful song.
And is that enough if it’s all it will ever be?
Or a game that showed me something new and only possible in a virtual reality video game experience.
As it stands, Horizon Call of the Mountain is carrying the PSVR 2 on its back.
This leaves PSVR 2 in a very strange spot.
As a successor, it improves on what came before in every possible way.
And it does this while being paired with an equally powerful console capable of rendering awe-inspiring virtual spaces.
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