Rumor mill: Claims that Sony'south virtual reality headset for the PS5, expected to be called the PSVR 2, volition be light years ahead of its predecessor take been circulating for a while. Now, rumored specs are supporting that avowal: 4K resolution, motorized haptic feedback, inside-out tracking, and foveated rendering are all said to feature in the adjacent-gen device.

The alleged specs come up from UploadVR, which cites "reliable sources." Assuming they're accurate, the PSVR 2's 2000 x 2040 per-centre resolution would put it alee of the Oculus Quest 2—the most popular VR headset among Steam survey participants—but slightly lower than the HP Reverb G2, which leads the resolution race with 2160 ten 2160 per-eye.

The PSVR 2 is said to include a motor that offers DualSense-style vibrations. Developers can use this to command haptic feedback, though i would hope information technology's subtle enough not to shake wearers' heads too violently. Such a feature could exist fun—or horrible—in fighting games, however.

The current PSVR

I claim that we've heard earlier is that headset will offer gaze tracking capable of foveated rendering, which means only the part of an image that a user is looking at gets rendered at a high quality, thereby improving the loading times and overall performance. The headset also comes with a lens separation aligning dial that lets wearers adapt the spacing based on their pupillary distance.

The PSVR 2 will connect to a PS5 via USB-C and use onboard cameras to track the position of the new controllers, making the setup a lot simpler than the electric current version.

This all sounds pretty exciting, but when will the PSVR 2 arrive? No fourth dimension soon, unfortunately. Sony back in October said it wouldn't launch until 2022 at the earliest, and with the chip shortage expected to last well into adjacent year, its development could exist delayed.