Is PlayStation VR Worth It? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin and today I'm

here with one very important question

his PlayStation VR worth it so you guys

may have caught a video I did a few

months ago where it compared a developer

kit version of psvr

against the oculus rift and HTC vive and

I was pretty impressed then so have some

high expectations here okay so this is

like the fun stuff so we'll wait one

second on that and we've got what looks

like the accessories okay first of all

we have PlayStation VR worlds so we get

the London heist scavengers Odyssey

ocean descent VR luge and danger ball on

top of that we also get the PS VR demo

disc so this has a bunch of demos for

things like EU driveclub rigs a lot of

the games you're probably going to want

to try anyway

next we have a controller which has

actually been around for a while this is

the PlayStation Move so these were

originally made for the PlayStation 3

and they were essentially Sony's answer

to the Wii Remote from Nintendo now they

were not massively popular a few games

took advantage of them however it looks

like there's gonna be a much better use

for them with psvr

we also get these PlayStation camera now

it's important to know that there are

actually two different psvr bundles so

this is the full launch bundle which has

all the accessories in addition to

PlayStation VR however some of these

things you're just going to need so for

example you need a PlayStation camera to

make psvr work you don't necessarily

have to have move however a lot of games

will require it so it's probably

something you're gonna want to pick up

one way or another so speaking of the

camera this is a slightly redesigned

version now as far as I know there's no

real major difference between this and

the original cameras it's not like if

you already have all those need to go

out and pick this one out essentially

what this is going to do is track your

actual VR headset so essentially as you

kind of move around the space the camera

will be able to tell exactly where you

are

Oh

that is cool the little things you know

little things like oh wait this is a box

this is your Quick Start Guide you know

what Sony I would never normally read

something like this but you went through

the extra trouble let's see what's

inside your Quick Start Guide oh yeah

it's a Quick Start Guide

never mind okay so another instruction

manual and this is the actual breakout

box so what looks actually like sort of

a mini ps4 so this is the processor unit

so everything is still going on on the

ps4 itself however this is going to give

you a couple extra features so it kind

of enhances the audio for full 360 VR

effect and it also gives you an HDMI out

to your TV so for example if you're

playing a VR game and your friend wants

to watch you can still see what's going

on in the TV through this box and we

have a headset so psvr doesn't actually

have built-in headphones like oculus so

you can plug in pretty much anything

this is a standard 3.5 millimeter

headphone jack so if you'd like you can

use these low profile options or bring

your own cans alright it's time for the

fun stuff so good oh no psych not fun

stuff more cables the future I put the

features Wireless this is not Wireless

we have wow that's light the PSD our

headset itself wow that is super late

and even though it looks big and bulky

it's really lightweight this actually

seems like something that I could be

wearing for quite a while without

getting uncomfortable whoa look I'm in

the future the videos really dark so

with this kind of rubber on the sides it

really kind of helps to block light out

and even though I wear glasses I feel

like this is totally comfortable the

real world I didn't sign up for this I

don't go back to FPS VR

haha oh you know this is the V arguing I

play feel the exhilaration of an illegal

street race an illegal luge alright

let's do this

here's something interesting I didn't

need to adjust the screen at all for my

glasses I literally put it on and

immediately was nice and sharp there's a

little button on the bottom where you

can pull it in and out to kind of adjust

it but super simple setup all right

immediately not digging the motion here

this is like motion sickness 101 thanks

and so more the static sort of things

the screen resolution is not bad here

everything is very blurry it's cool I

can get the idea but it's uh yeah it's

noticeably less sharp than something

like the Viper oculus let's do the

London heists that sounds like fun one

thing I will say about using the move

controllers it's pretty obvious that

they really weren't designed for VR

because while you have your action

Square and all your normal PlayStation

buttons without be able to look at them

it's a little unclear as far as which

one you're actually pressing the actual

presence is not bad it seems like it's

able to track in 3d space reasonably

well it's not anywhere near as accurate

as something like the v controller but

this seems fine like this is easy

okay so chance okay of course I would

Sony actually a Sony can I like the

money on fire I'm gonna let that lick

the money on fire ah open this up this

okay oh wow

I should probably um again haha this is

cool

so I am noticing a few limits to the

tracking so they try to lean too far out

if the PlayStation camera can't see me

or like I actually hit like that well

you know the actual couch I'm sitting on

oh I got him

alright next let's try driveclub PR so

this is one place where I can see the

ps4 is a little less powerful at home a

lot less powerful than a gaming computer

so for example when I look at the BMW I

can see a lot of aliasing with the sharp

edges

I don't see a lot of detail in here I've

got to say this looks like I'm sitting

in an actual car you know I've been

playing for about 45 minutes or so right

now and psv are still staying very very

comfortable so my face is as sweaty

everything feels nice and smooth oh oh

oh that's cool let's do it alright

this is solid I gotta say I am not

displaying right now so eval Curie is an

interesting game because it's also

available on the oculus so it's a really

easy comparison to make I mean there are

definitely some differences I think the

lower resolution screen on the PS dr is

a bit noticeable graphics wise it's hard

I mean a good experience is sort of

seamless you really don't think about it

you really get immersed in the game and

I think the psvr is absolutely up to the

point where it can totally do that

framerate is dead solid like out of all

the games I've tried today I had not

seen one drop frame nothing torn nothing

it's been a very very smooth experience

Valkyrie is not the my first choice of a

game to try in virtual reality but it

really kind of gives you an idea of the

scale and the scope of what you can do

here get it get it

while places you VR is less expensive

than something like vive or oculus it's

also still $500 and that's still not

even including the price of a ps4 now

something like the ps4 pro might make a

bigger difference to quality however the

main thing you need to keep in mind is

that VR is still very new there's a lot

of potential here however it's still

very much an early adopter thing if you

really want to try VR this is a great

way to go however it's not a must-have

so I only had time to play a few games

today however if you want a full rundown

of the best of the best games for

PlayStation VR definitely check out my

buddy Kevin Kenton who did a full

rundown of all the latest and I'm

curious what do you guys think about

PlayStation VR let me know in the

comments below and I will catch you in

the next one