PS4's VR Headset Not as "High-End" as Rift, Palmer Luckey Says

@hvd2222: you do realise you just linked to an article that proves you wrong?

“Earlier last year, we started officially messaging that the Rift+Recommended spec PC would cost roughly $1500."

End of paragraph "For that vast majority of people, $1500 is the all-in cost of owning Rift."

hahaha think you should read what stuff actually says fool

@Benny_a: They are not talking about CPU and GPU in a PC design means, and solution is not anything like Crossfire/SLI.

PU is DSP (Digital Signal Processor)... I'm thinking of it as something like standalone SPE from PS3 CEL, hardcoded to calculate mid-frames - and not much else. It will be working with data that goes through HDMI. PS4 has HDMI 1.4 which allows for two independent 1080p streams, and is spec-ed with 3D in mind. PU will separate streams and generate mid-frames for both displays in PSVR.

USB connection, I'm guessing, is for feedback - sending movement data from PSVR sensors back to PS4. Bluetooth (3 Mbit/s) is probably too slow for this, thus good old wired USB3 (480MBit/s) link.

PU has both HDMI input and output. Output should be just pass-through, for TV connection... so that gamers don't have to fiddle with cables whenever they want to switch between TV and PSVR. I expect that TV will be functional even if gamer is using PSVR - for "audience", or for local multiplayer. not perfect as only man of the house will have VR, but better than no local multplayer, I guess.

@Benny_a:

Is it? Whew. I'm glad I'm not going to use my PS3 for VR then.

You may be just about the dumbest person I've ever met online, and that's saying a lot.

You're telling me that YOU, ol' Benn-o-rama knows more than some of the best tech brains on the planet who designed this "can't exist" thing.

You're telling me, despite Sony saying there's an extra processor, it can't be done.

You're telling me that they went and showed these awful, terrible, horrible graphics (or a machine that will make everyone sick) to Sony's CEO, and he said, "Oh hell yeah, put millions of bucks into that, then take it on the road and show the public".

You're telling me that Sony's R&D tried a Rift, and a Gear VR, and a Vive, saw that their product is far, far, unbelievably, incomparably worse than all of them, that it looks like absolute shit, and that it makes people sick, and said...

"go with it. Yeah, they'll never notice that they're projectile vomiting all over their fucking living room floors cause they'll have a headset on. Muhahahaha, let's put the company on the line for this"

You're telling me that all those folks who have actually tried PSVR (including me, others in this comment section, and reps from virtually every single video game and tech publication in the world) and give it absolutely rave reviews.... Are wrong, and Benny is right.

You're telling me that despite the fact that we've viewed this exact extra processor, IN PERSON, and that hundreds of publications have detailed its existence, and that myself (along with Forbes, Gamespot, IGN, Kotaku, New York Times, CNET, Washington Times, Dual Shockers, VG 247, Game informer, 100s of YouTubers and so many more) have held it in our hands...... It's not real, nor even possible. What we saw was fake, and we're alllll lying to you..... Because, uhhhh, Sony paid us all to fool the world?? We're all part of the nasty trick to lie to Benny??

Do you even realize how stupid you sound? Holy shit. You take "internet idiot" to a whole new level, and that's....well.... That's actually really amazing.

USB can't handle that much data that quick eh? Is that why the Accelerometer and sensor inside my Gear VR headset (which improves on the phones latency by a factor of about 100X, making it sub 18ms) runs through mini-usb TWO? Is that why my phone streams 2K video perfectly through my USB 2 port and into my TV?

Why did Luckey say it was a pretty good headset if it's just going to make everyone sick, or have graphics rivaling Duck Hunt?? Is he stupid too? Or just being nice and giving his rival some sales?

Have you even looked up any fucking videos of these demos and compared them to "PS2 graphics"?

Have you even read ANY reviews from those whom have tried it?

Answer these questions, or don't. I don't care. I can't lower my brain power enough to respond to you again.....

Once we reached the point where YOU, Mr. Benny-in-the-comments-section, have declared that the extra processor that I've held in my hand during my time demoing and reviewing the headset, and which has been detailed, even down to its physical size, by hundreds of publications, (who all say that it makes the experience fantastic)....... Is IMPOSSIBLE, that it doesn't exist, that it CAN'T exist.....

Once we get to that point, we're no longer having a rational discussion or disagreement. This has now devolved into a short-bus, conspiracy theory, low brainpower, moronic, one way conversation. One in which I'm tasked with proving to you, that something that's been fully detailed, seen, touched, felt, measured and used by hundreds, or thousands of people, and of which as many pictures of have been taken and posted...... Doesn't.... not exist?

Once we get there, I can no longer respond. This has become far too stupid to utilize my limited time on earth arguing.

Mr. Everone-is-lying-to-you-Benny, I bid you farewell sir.

Edit: I actually forget to mention some of the other people who aren't as smart as you. Specifically developers, big ones, like CCP, Ubisoft, Three One Zero, nDreams, Harmonix, Supermassive Games, Capcom, Tekken Team (Bandai Namco), Kojima Productions, and oh my god so many, many more.

BENNY, THEY NEED YOUR HELP!!!!! THEY DON'T KNOW THE EXTRA PROCESSOR IS FAKE!!!

Hurry, call them Benny. Oh my god. These super successful developers have been fooled by Sony with their crappy headset with the worst graphics in the world. If you have a heart at all, you better call them and tell them it's all a lie before they completely sink their companies by releasing......

• Atom Universe

• Adrift

• Allison Road

• ARK: Survival Evolved

• Among the Sleep

• The Assembly

• Battlezone

• Crystal Rift

• Danganronpa VR

• Dead or Alive Xtreme 3

• Dead Secret

• Dynasty Warriors 8 VR

• The Deep

• Dreams

• Driveclub

• The Earthlight Project

• EVE: Valkyrie

• Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward

• Futuridium

• Get Even

• GNOG

• Godling

• Gran Turismo Sport

• Harmonix Music VR

• Hatsune Miku Project

• Headmaster

• The Hum

• IOMoon

• JoysoundVR

• Jurassic Encounter

• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

• Loading Human

• The London Heist

• Megaton Rainfall

• Mind: Path to Thalamus

• Omega Agent

• Paranormal Activity VR

• P.O.L.L.E.N

• The Playroom VR

• Project CARS

• Q.U.B.E.²

• Rigs: Mechanized Combat League

• Robinson: The Journey

• Summer Lesson

• Superhypercube

• Surgeon Simulator

• Synthesis Universe• Technolust

• Tekken 7

• Trackmania Turbo

• Until Dawn: Rush of Blood

• Vanguard V

• VizionEck

• War Thunder

• Wayward Sky

• World War Toons

By the way, that's a list from 3 months ago, but you can start by saving those idiots from themselves!

Thanks Benn-ster. Your services are invaluable to keeping the Billion dollar video game industry afloat.