Sony launched its long-awaited PC VR adapter for PSVR 2 this week, nonetheless early stories preserve some consumer don’t even want the corporate’s $60 adapter to start out enjoying PC VR video games like Half-Life: Alyx (2020).
Quite a lot of early consumer critiques of the adapter are echoing most of the similar factors proper now: some graphics playing cards with USB-C ports enable PSVR 2 customers to instantly hook into their GPUS and play SteamVR video games. All it’s good to do is obtain the PlayStation VR 2 App on Steam, no adapter required.
It’s not simply any outdated USB-C port although, however slightly a little bit of an oddball that has been deprecated in additional trendy GPUs: VirtualLink.
Introduced again in 2018 with the backing of each Nvidia and AMD, VirtualLink was meant to simplify PC VR connections by offering each energy and information transmission by a single cable.
On the time, it promised to ship an enormous enchancment over having to wrangle a number of connectors (USB, video, and typically extra energy) and breakout packing containers. Sadly, it was deserted in later GPUs because the market largely moved away from PC VR in favor of standalone VR headsets comparable to Meta Quest.
The consumer stories you’ll see on Steam claiming they don’t want the PC VR adapter possible have one in every of a number of 2018-ish GPUs: Nvidia GeForce RTX 20 Sequence playing cards (Founders Editions) and AMD AMD 6000 or 7000 sequence reference design playing cards, as accomplice playing cards didn’t embrace VirtualLink.
Whereas the record beneath incorporates potential candidates for VirtualLink assist, the simplest method prime test is to obtain the PSVR 2 app from Steam and plug into to see if you happen to’re one of many fortunate few who matches into that particular Venn diagram.
NVIDIA GPUs
- GeForce RTX 2060
- GeForce RTX 2070
- GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
- GeForce RTX 2080
- GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
- GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
- Quadro RTX 4000
- Quadro RTX 5000
- Quadro RTX 6000
- Quadro RTX 8000
AMD GPUs
- Radeon VII
- Radeon RX 6000
- Radeon RX 7000
Supplied you might have a kind of, some customers are reporting proper now some very irritating points with connecting PSVR 2’s Sense Controllers to Bluetooth.
One other caveat is PC assist doesn’t embrace numerous options distinctive to PSVR 2, together with HDR, headset suggestions, eye-tracking, adaptive triggers, and haptic suggestions aside from rumble.