The 2016 VR battle rages on. Sony just threw their hat into the ring, debuting their years-in-the-making PlayStation VR. The verdict: Sony just won the war.
iFixit has torn down the Sony VR headset and says, “Regardless of resolution and actual games, this thing is really well-constructed, cheap, pretty accessible, and has the entire PlayStation marketplace backing it.”
“It also scored some bonus points for having the best cable management seen in VR. Sony’s design approach is both elegant and simple—making for a pretty darn repairable device. In fact, it scored a solid 8/10 on our repair-ability scale.”
The Sony VR headset is its console gaming headset for the PS4. It goes head to head with PC based competitors Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.
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While you should read the teardown in full here are a few interesting items.
- Single 5.7-inch AMOLED display with 1920 × 1080 resolution (960 × 1080 per eye)
- Approximately 100º field of view
- Refresh rate up to 120 Hz
- Six-axis inertial measurement system (three-axis gyroscope, three-axis accelerometer)
- Headset weight: 610 g – it uses a headband and hanging visor concept rather than “goggles”
- Sold separately (or included in the bundle edition) are the (very necessary) camera and (optional) PlayStation Move sticks.