Black Friday is over but Cyber Monday keeps the excitement going by lowering prices even more on gaming hardware at Amazon. The PlayStation VR2 is a next-level virtual reality headset that feels completely different from smartphone VR headsets and if you have a PS5 and want to get deeper into immersive gaming, this is the headset for you.
Right now, this bundle is only $299, down from the usual $399 and it comes with Horizon Call of the Mountain, so you can start playing a full AAA VR adventure as soon as you open it. This bundle is at its lowest price ever on Amazon for Cyber Monday.
OLED Screens and Eye Tracking
The PSVR2 has two OLED panels that give each eye a resolution of 2000×2040 which is 4K total resolution. This gets rid of the screen-door effect that older VR headsets had, where you could see individual pixels. The 110-degree field of view gives you peripheral vision that is similar to real life, so virtual environments feel truly big instead of like you’re looking through binoculars. With HDR support, deep blacks and bright highlights stand out and gives images more depth. The 90Hz or 120Hz refresh rate options make fast gameplay smooth which helps with motion sickness and makes head movements feel natural instead of laggy.
The PSVR2’s best feature is eye tracking which lets the headset see where you’re looking and use that information in many different ways. Foveated rendering uses the graphics processing power to focus on what you’re looking at directly and lower the detail in your peripheral vision, and it makes things run faster without you noticing any quality loss. Some games use eye tracking to help you aim in shooters, make eye contact with NPCs in story-driven games, or start events based on where your gaze stays.
When there are explosions, impacts, or weather effects like rain, haptic feedback vibrates through the headset itself and adds a physical element that regular VR doesn’t have. The adaptive triggers on the included Sense controllers push back against your finger pressure in a way that makes drawing a bowstring feel tense or pulling the trigger on a gun feel real. Inside-out tracking uses four cameras built into the headset to keep an eye on the controllers and your play area and you don’t need any sensors mounted around your room.
Horizon Call of the Mountain shows off what PSVR2 can do with a VR adventure set in the Horizon universe: It has climbing mechanics that use hand-over-hand motion, archery that requires real aiming and drawing and beautiful views that show off the graphics quality. The game was made specifically for VR instead of being a port of a flat-screen game which means that every interaction uses the headset’s eye tracking and haptic features.
For $299 instead of $399, you can get the PSVR2 with Horizon Call of the Mountain which makes high-end VR available at a price that used to only get you entry-level standalone headsets. For $100 less, you get Sony’s best VR technology, including eye tracking, haptic feedback, and 4K OLED visuals – plus, you get a full AAA game that would cost $60 on its own.
