Sony worked hard to get the PS VR2 down to a single USB Type-C cable - significantly simplifying the connection from the previous generation - but that's not good enough for some people. If anything has been made abundantly clear since Sony's CES 2022 PS VR2 announcement, it's that people hate cables. Source: Nick Sutrich / Android Central (Image credit: Source: Nick Sutrich / Android Central) Having something much closer to PS5-level visuals will ensure that Sony's VR games turn heads for years. Remember that VR games will always have slightly lower in-game asset fidelity when compared to games on a TV, simply because the headset has to show different images for each eye. Meanwhile, the PS VR2 could achieve much closer to PS4 Pro or even early PS5-level visuals, thanks to foveated rendering and other AI-based techniques available on powerful hardware inside the PS5. In the most ideal conditions, a Quest 3 could hope to achieve PS3-level visuals with a next-generation mobile processor. Sony's use of eye-tracking and foveated rendering - that's the concept of only rendering the center of a user's vision in the highest resolution, thereby saving processing power - proves that it's aiming to create a visual feast with every VR title it releases.

Meanwhile, the PS VR2 is running on a PS5. The Quest 3 will have PS3-level visuals at best. It's a different experience altogether, and that's where Sony is going to win.

So focusing on the folks who care about the most premium VR experience is an excellent way to bring new players to its platform instead of trying to steal Meta's thunder. Instead, it cares about the PlayStation brand and how it can create its own unique experience. In the short term, Sony doesn't care about what Apple and Meta are doing, or Valve and HTC, for that matter. There's little doubt that Meta will have the upper hand in the mobile space for some time to come - unless Apple really does make a proper Quest competitor - so why not come at it from a completely different angle?

Source: PlayStation (Image credit: Source: PlayStation)

Virtual reality mac vs ps4