Warning to buyers of the Sony Playstation VR Headset

Sony "rushed" yet were the first people working on VR, this headset was already being developed when the oculus rift was still only an idea

90 degree FOV? ewwww

@GoldenElementXL:

"I'm gonna need more negative impressions to sway me."

Here's another negative impression for you: http://www.idigitaltimes.com/sonys-playstation-vr-pretender-not-contender-vr-king-gdc-2016-520456

doesn't sony psvr have headtracking in the headset?

Isn't camera for positional tracking and tracking of the move controllers/dualschock 4

So Sony took a bunch of crap that didn't sell and threw it in another device that wont sell? Is there also a Cell processor in that headset lol
Surely the Vita must fit into this somehow? Maybe it'll be the exclusive calibration device of the PS VR experience ? Sounds like all this thing is missing is a big ass recycle sticker on the headset . Surely this thing is made of the same high quality material that the PS4 controllers are, because as everyone knows, those aren't junk either.

@putaspongeon:

"Sony "rushed" yet were the first people working on VR, this headset was already being developed when the oculus rift was still only an idea"

Haha, yeah right. If you believe that you're extremely gullible and naive.

Sony, a massive consumer electronics company with decades of experience, is somehow going to get beaten by a quirky start-up--in terms of being first to announce, first to give public demonstrations, first to launch, and offering a higher quality VR product to boot--even though Sony supposedly was working on it well before Oculus? Get real. There's no way in hell Sony was working on VR in earnest before Oculus. That would suggest a degree of ineptitude on Sony's part that frankly is unbelievable, even taking into consideration Sony's somewhat weakened state in recent years.

They might have dabbled with it in the past, just like nearly every other console maker, but they only got serious about it after they saw the attention Oculus was getting.

He shat on you so I won't bother using the same toilet.

@putaspongeon:

No, he's as delusional as you are. I'm sure Sony appreciates the dedication. Maybe they'll give you guys an award some day for your years of hard work.

But, no, I'm not convinced. I already said they could have dabbled with it just like Nintendo, Sega and, reportedly, even Microsoft have done. That's not surprising. For them to have supposedly been working on it in a focused and earnest manner, however, and be this far behind Oculus simply doesn't make sense. Again, it either suggests massive ineptitude on Sony's part, or they weren't really as far along as they tried to lead us to believe.

You have to be completely detached from reality if you believe Sony wasn't trying to get their VR device out to market as soon as possible. Do you think they wanted to be upstaged by Oculus? To have their thunder stolen and be the third one out the gate? (And by no small amount of time). The Oculus Rift is the first serious consumer VR device in decades. It is coming out 7 months ahead of PSVR and has been ahead at every major step of the way--from announcement, to public demonstrations, to dev kits, to official name reveal, to price/release date announcement, to actual launch.

Claiming Sony doesn't care because the PC is a different market is absurd, and is particularly rich coming from Sony fanboys like yourselves when all we've heard since the PSVR price announcement is how it's going to crush the Rift and Vive. If they're not in the same market then obviously they're not competing. You can't have it both ways.

In any case, there's no doubt that Sony would have loved to have been first at all those milestones. The fact that they weren't is simply because they couldn't. Either due to ineptitude or due to being too far behind. I personally think it was more the latter.

SIXaxis and Move were half hearted