I've actually just borrowed my friends one yesterday and playing all the free stuff on it. Star wars in VR is bloody amazing. the PS vr is so much better than the gear vr with my note 5. i cant go back now that I've tried this. You can tilt, bend, move forward and back and then you realise how static you feel with mobile vr, which you can only turn around 360 horizontally.
i tried the drive club vr demo which is so so good too. Driving around in a Ferrari feels great in the incar view and you actually use your side and rear view mirrors!
battlezone is another great vr game but it's a bit pricey. it should only be about 10, 15 quid but it's 50 on psn!
The kitchen demo was the 1st "game" i played with the vr. it was good but i expected more.
PlayStation worlds is pretty cool. the menus with a sphere in front of you that you can hit got a good bit of time out of me, more than any other menu ever has! but this game only has 2 demos available to play. i also don't have the move controller's, I'm only using the controller.
Playtime (or whatever it's called) with the small robots isnt bad, only a couple of 1 player games, then rest are for 1 in VR and another playing via the TV, which i haven't tried yet.
cod vr didn't work at all - waste of a download.

Also, you don't really see the different coloured pixels as you do in mobile vr, the colours look a bit smoother, but crisper items like text can still be jaggy. There's also a lot of loading. You stare at 2 separate black screens between games for what seems to be about a minute, which is horrendous tbh.

All in all, if i had the money and my own games room and was able to justify it to my wife or hide it well enough and the time to play it, then I'd buy one! too many variables for me unfortunately tho, but for everyone else, you'll love it for about 2 days, then not play it till a good game comes down in price...

(tlrl?) or buy it, play it, sell it, then buy it again when it's cheaper and there's more games and their cheaper :smile:

just my 2 pennies. enjoy

£300 with camera and controllers and I'm in...

Still too expensive will be £200 in no time got plenty of games to keep me going till then :smile:

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I'm very tempted, but still can't quite justify.

Looking forward to E3 to see what is coming up. I wonder if they'd do a VR version of No Man's Sky? It seems like the perfect candidate for a conversion...

What is the upcoming line up for VR Games like?
I was so close to buying one at Xmas but couldn't quite justify spending so much on what seemed like only a few small titles.
I have a friend who loves the PSVR so I know it is good, just the collection of actual games seems a bit underwhelming at present.

That article doesn't give any evidence for it not selling well though. From the article:

'One of the few times Sony has talked about the headset post launch was in February, when they revealed they’d sold around 915,000 units – outpacing established PC headsets such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, and on target for Sony’s six month goal of 1 million headsets sold.'

That is with the supply shortages.

'With Sony unwilling to discuss PlayStation VR though it’s difficult to know how accurate this report is, and whether it really does indicate dissatisfaction with sales so far.'

In other words it's an unsubstantiated rumour.

Seriously, where are people getting the idea it hasn't sold well? It beat their expectations, and that is with the supply shortages.

'As of Feb. 19 PSVR has sold a stellar 915,000 units after being on the market for just four months. Compared to data from SuperData Research, both Facebook’s Oculus Rift and Valve’s HTC Vive have 234,000 and 420,000 unit sales respectively by the end of 2016. Both headsets were released 6-7 months prior to PSVR.'

http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/psvr-sales-numbers/

Surprised to see no one's mentioned you need a PS4 Pro to make to most of this (resolution poor on PS4 original). Also I saw Sony are now looking at other markets, like arcades, schools as its not sold well. Your looking at nearly a grand inc pro console, camera, headset, controllers, games etc.

Caved at this price, just have to find somewhere to hide it from the Mrs!

You mean a good VR headset for the Scorpio or something? I can't imagine them chopping off that much, though I hope you're right :smiley:.

Gutted I missed out on the VR game reductions at easter as I didn't anticipate getting a headset... guess I'll wait for the next sale before I go buying up all the cheaper Indy titles. but in the meantime I will get re7 as that's unlikely to drop much in price for a while I would think...

I don't know where you're getting your information from, but it's incorrect.

'The Times spoke with Sony Interactive Entertainment’s global chief executive, Andrew House, who revealed that Sony had sold 915,000 headsets since the product’s launch last October. Sony had planned to sell a million devices by the middle of April this year, and is likely to pass that goal. The popularity of the headsets has meant that the device has been difficult to find in stores. “You literally have people lining up outside stores when they know stock is being replenished,” House explained to The New York Times. He went on to say that availability will improve by April, and that the company is expecting to expand their sales to Latin America.'

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/26/14745602/sony-playstation-vr-sales-better-than-expected

Still not selling as much as they hoped though!

Hey, thanks for the thorough reply! :wink: Really appreciate your insight into the experience offered by gear VR in Comparison to PSVR...Its helped me make up my mind!

I purchased. Looking forward to trying the games you mentioned, and especially tie fighter VR... plus I will still be getting my gear VR for mobile Netflix, which I intend to make use of on flights!

thanks again dude! :wink:

Selling so well after only 6 months they reduce the price by £50..............I think Sony are getting desperate, they need to bring it below the £200 barrier before people will buy it en masse

lol, yeah.. my bad

Want to get the camera first, but at 39.99 it's 1p short of the £5 voucher! Anyone know of a really cheap Amazon gaming add-on?

I'd love to try one of these but every single thing about them screams future bargain to me.

I never understood why anyone thought that any VR headset would be good for video. All the headsets are pretty low resolution (Sony's PSVR is actually one of the best if measuring by resolution alone. Why would you want a standard film image presented in front of you in VR??

What are people's experience with drifting using the psvr? Even in a pitch black room, with ideal camera setup, i have to re-centre every few minutes... Especially with cinema mode... Had hoped the recent patches would've fixed it but no luck still...

£300 with camera and controllers and I'm in...

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I will warn people, as someone whose friend owns this... it's ****. He never bothers with it, Sony have done nothing with it, the tracking SUCKS and the resolution is so low it makes it quite useless for anything other than simple looking games, forget video.

I own an Oculus Rift myself because it's only £598 now with the tracking, the PSVR will cost you more like £400+ for the camera and move controllers, plus all the games are so much more expensive. Then you have other factors like the PC is open so you can do things like watch porn (which I wouldn't as it sucks) and other weird crap.

The OR looks better and it tracks so well, the PSVR tracking is a mess, I preferred using a controller it was so bad, where OR feels spot on, it feels one to one and it can track fingers.

I would spend the extra money for OR, I wouldn't even bother with PSVR, even if you have a PS4.

Great deal, just ordered for hubbys birthday :stuck_out_tongue:
Thanks

Depends on what is announced at the E3 show in six weeks time.

I think you mean he did a 180? :man:

It has a sucking feature? TAKE MY MONEY NOW!

Personally I've finally grabbed one at this price.
I've resisted all the VR solutions. Vive looks amazing, but I don't have that kind of throwaway money.

Coupled with Trinus vr and my trusty old G25 I can imagine that Dirt is going to be good, just hoping my pc plays nice... Don't really want to be stuck attached to the ps4.

Hot deal but still a lot of money for what will probably turn out to be another passing fad due to lack of developer support, e.g. 3D gaming, Kinect 1 and 2, PS move, etc..

Very tempting , definitely want to pick one of these up one day

I'm waiting till it's this price with the camera and a game.

Thank you very much heat added

OMG spur of the moment i wanty squeee moment, now i have to justify to myself, only have zero horizon, the guardian and no mans sky, so will look out for more games to take advantage of VR. Thank you Op i think ;-):smiley:

What are the best FPS games? How good are they? thanks

To echo some comments here, Star Wars VR is amazing.
It is very short, but from the second you're in the cockpit and flying alongside a rebel fleet, I went pure giddy. It's terrific.
Another favourite is Batman VR. Again, its a short experience but thoroughly enjoyable.
I don't use it all the time, and to many its an expensive luxury. You might say "why buy it, its the price of another console, just by an xbox One" etc etc. Aye, but another console would let me play a couple of exclusives or games I can already play on my ps4. The psvr allows me to do something completely different. It IS expensive, but if you can afford it, it gives you something you can't get with another games console.
Also 3D Blurays look cool. Dredd was amazing.

ha, well, that's the thing, unless you're willing to shell out on the games, then I suppose 2 days is how long it'll last for the demos. I haven't bought any games for it as I've only borrowed the headset to see how different it is to my gear vr, for which I've bought a number of games for because they're only a few quid, but then again they're only mobile games and you can't really sink your teeth into them like a proper console game, plus getting controller support is a pain!. If I had the money and bought the headset, then I'd buy battlezone, drive club vr, Res evil 7 and probably PlayStation world's.

I love the headset, I've also got the PS headphones 2.0 but you can only plug them in, you can't use them wirelessly which I found bizarre but it's probably due to either processing or making sure everything syncs perfectly. The headset is lot more comfortable compared to the gear vr but unfortunately I haven't used netflix on it, I have used oculus video where you can sit in a cinema and watch videos but for me it's like a 3d glasses movie - it lasts about 10 mins to see what it's like and you do something more interesting. I watch the Samsung 360 videos via the oculus store (star wars, stranger things, events and the likes) but they're all short videos. I wouldn't personally use the gear vr just for films. But as long as the quality of the video is the full res of your phone (2560x1440?) then the 3d videos would look great but it's not easy getting full res videos and the lower Res ones looks like you're watching a vhs tape. I feel the experiences comes more from the interaction and excitement of the games.

The gear vr has some good games but nothing that you'd buy the headset for, it's more because it's a cheap alternative to a ps4 and vr and camera and pricey games. You get what you pay for and the gear vr is certainly the best mobile vr experience but once you've used the PS vr even with it's slightly lower resolution screen, it works better in every other way and has much better games on it.

I was very tempted by Rez for ps, but I felt it was a bit pricey at its sale price of £16 with only a couple of days to play it. I loved the original on the Dreamcast. Once again, if I had the money....I'd add that one to the list too.

Also, the screen door effect is mostly only noticeable via text on screen. You don't really see it in a high res video unless you look for it. The resolution of the s7, note 5 is better than the display of the PS vr but the PS uses different display tech so you don't notice the seperation of colours in each pixel as much as you do on the gear vr, but once again it's only if you look for it, if you're enjoying the experience then you'll quicky forget about it.

Hopefully I haven't caused anyone to remortgage their house because of my quickish review but I hope I've answered some niggling questions about either headset.

Enjoy :smiley:

Resident Evil 7 in VR Mode takes horror to a completely new level. Amazing. I haven't been brave enough to get very far yet though.

It's still quite expensive considering the play time you get out of it and the camera/move controllers. It might be around £250 or less around Black Friday at this rate. Heat

So tempted to get on vr but I think I'll wait till e3 so I know what games were getting in the upcoming year :stuck_out_tongue:

Anyone comment on playing Rez Infinite in VR? Supposedly the best game for PSVR

need another good deal on resident evil 7 now :disappointed:

Dirt rally is so much better than driveclub in vr...i played a lot of hours on both...you can see the road and bumps on rally lot better..niether made me ill after 3 hour sessions

can you use the codes with Amazon warehouse?

Had PSVR for a month now. So far... Star Wars BattleFront X-Wing VR Mission is the best VR experience to date. It lasts 17 minutes, and it's the same every time, but I can't stop playing it. Next best for me, Eagle Flight. Picked it up for £19.99 on PSN. Nice, easy, good VR. Drive Club VR is good, but race a short circuit and it WILL make you feel sick after a few laps. Dirt Rally VR is ok, but not real VR - it only models half the car. Nowhere near as good as Drive Club. Robinson is OK but slow, and I don't get on with the movement very well. I don't like the jerky turning motion - it makes me feel weird. Hustle King VR is ok, but again, VR is a bit of an after-thought to the game - it's not real VR. I've got more, but I'm too drunk to remember. :-) *EDIT* I remembered some more. PlayStation VR Worlds is kind of fun for showing people what VR is without them needing to actually play anything. The shark dive is the best to put on mother to watch her freak out. Rush of Blood is a sit-down ghost-train thing that's much better if you've got the Move controllers. 2 pistols to shoot targets. Not a bad game.

hey, thanks for your thoughts. You sounded really positive about it then did a 360 with your opinion that you'll only play it for '2 days' and leave it until another good game comes out! lol.

I'm interested in your experience with gear VR though! as I was considering getting this first with an s7. I'm only really concerned with Netflix VR. have you any experience with this? how distracting is the screen door effect frvideo... would you still say it's worth having gear VR for mobile purposes and video alone? or would the psvr. experience completely ruin it for me, even if it's home use only? thanks for your input!

Bought mine for £349 two weeks ago. Dammit!

I've actually just borrowed my friends one yesterday and playing all the free stuff on it. Star wars in VR is bloody amazing. the PS vr is so much better than the gear vr with my note 5. i cant go back now that I've tried this. You can tilt, bend, move forward and back and then you realise how static you feel with mobile vr, which you can only turn around 360 horizontally.
i tried the drive club vr demo which is so so good too. Driving around in a Ferrari feels great in the incar view and you actually use your side and rear view mirrors!
battlezone is another great vr game but it's a bit pricey. it should only be about 10, 15 quid but it's 50 on psn!
The kitchen demo was the 1st "game" i played with the vr. it was good but i expected more.
PlayStation worlds is pretty cool. the menus with a sphere in front of you that you can hit got a good bit of time out of me, more than any other menu ever has! but this game only has 2 demos available to play. i also don't have the move controller's, I'm only using the controller.
Playtime (or whatever it's called) with the small robots isnt bad, only a couple of 1 player games, then rest are for 1 in VR and another playing via the TV, which i haven't tried yet.
cod vr didn't work at all - waste of a download.

Also, you don't really see the different coloured pixels as you do in mobile vr, the colours look a bit smoother, but crisper items like text can still be jaggy. There's also a lot of loading. You stare at 2 separate black screens between games for what seems to be about a minute, which is horrendous tbh.

All in all, if i had the money and my own games room and was able to justify it to my wife or hide it well enough and the time to play it, then I'd buy one! too many variables for me unfortunately tho, but for everyone else, you'll love it for about 2 days, then not play it till a good game comes down in price...

(tlrl?) or buy it, play it, sell it, then buy it again when it's cheaper and there's more games and their cheaper :smile:

just my 2 pennies. enjoy

if you are after the camera and move controllers you could use the other codes to get them cheaper maybe add a cheap game the controllers and do them all on individual orders

Still too expensive will be £200 in no time got plenty of games to keep me going till then :smile:

Scorching. Anyone who is on the fence just buy it st this price.

no one has invented a real light sabre, storm trooper blaster or even a proper hoverboard - at least in 2017 you can fly x-wing.

This price is awesome. Really tempted. However I noticed that most vr games on psn get rated quite low. What games are there that make getting one worth it? Hmmm price is good though.

Just dusted mine off and bought werewolves within. Went for one go and ended up still playing 4 hrs later

I crumbled and ordered, not seen it new for this price until now. Thanks Buzz!

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Thanks. So tempting....

Yup and it's even better than I'd dared hope :laughing:

How much are the PlayStation camera and move controllers? Also, anyone tried x wing in VR?

Is there any more information on that code?

Code doesn't work for me.