If you’ve been putting off your first venture into the world of Virtual Reality gaming — probably because the costs have been known to be on the steep side — your excuse just left the building. Amazon has bundled the PlayStation VR2 headset and controllers with the great VR game Horizon Call of the Mountain and for a limited time it’s at its lowest price ever, just $349.
To give you an idea of just what a massive deal this is, it’s been almost exactly 2 years since this bundle was first released, and its original price was $600. We can see maybe taking a pass on it at that point, but now that it’s just $349, it’s probably time to join the ranks of the VR gaming enthusiasts.
Huge Improvement
The original PlayStation VR headset was revolutionary, to be sure. But it was also a little on the heavy side, with some reviewers complaining of neck fatigue from wearing the headset. The first VR headsets also took some critical knocks for inducing motion sickness and having less than stellar graphics.
The PlayStation VR2 addressed those concerns and more — it has four times the resolution of the original, with two OLED displays delivering 4K images at a crisp 120 frames per second to help ward off any motion issues. There’s also 3D Audio Immersion with dynamic adjustment, so even small sounds move with the motion of your head. (It’s similar to music delivered with Spatial Audio.)
The VR2 headset also uses intelligent eye tracking that takes your real-life expressions and facial movements and transfers them onto your VR avatar during game play. All told, it’s by far the most immersive VR gaming experience to date.
Feel the Difference
You’ll see and hear the improvements of the PlayStation VR2 in the headset, but you’ll feel it most in the new, updated VR2 Sense hand controllers. These upgraded controllers have haptic feedback, adaptive triggers, precision tracking, and finger-touch detection. They’re also lightweight to keep you from wearing out during a long gaming sessions, and the sensations linking what you see in VR with what you feel from the controllers creates incredible realism.
Your first foray into ultra-realistic PlayStation VR2 gaming will come in the form of Horizon Call of the Mountain when you use the download code that comes bundled with the headset and controllers. Once you get a feel for coordinating your headset images with your hand controllers, it’s a safe bet you’ll be going back to the PlayStation library for more incredible VR gaming. So if you’ve been eyeing the PS VR2, this is the lowest price we’ve seen—don’t miss it.
