Ahaha thats my exact thoughts i actually jus sent my fiancé a YouTube link of summer lesson and the pgw psvr trailer. Letting her know what's coming lolI can swing it at that price without catching looks from the wife.
Sony aren't going to offer a premium ps4 with better specs, it'll just split the user base and make development even harder than it already is. It's clear the VR box is only for the headset, and not to "boost" the PS4 beyond its original configuration.
Pretty clever way to boost PS4 performance without forcing in a separate expansion pack. Hopefully it's not too expensive.
I'm going to go with what Shu and Dr. Marks are saying instead of a platform evangelist at a Unity conference.I think it does more than what you guys are saying.
1. Why would he say it will reduce the latency?
2. We will make it more powerful?
3. we knew about the converting switching for tv and 3d audio
I think you guys need to listen at what he said at the 14min 28sec mark. Doesn't sound like what y'all are guessing at
Reprojection is done by the PS4."Powerful VR Processing Unit" is the breakout box, that likely also carries out the reprojection and maybe barrel processing. It's not likely to give any other advantages in terms of performance for normal gaming.
This is all it does, which is good but this is not secret GPU special sauce before this stupid stuff starts.
....wait a minute. Are you saying Media Molecules Dreams can be experienced in VR? Is that official?
Reprojection is done by the PS4.
An additional processing unit is cool, but I don't see it making up for the weaker GPU.
Riggs has the potential to be this for me.This just needs the killer app and then I'm all in.
GT Sport anyone?
It is possible that farming specific VR tasks to the breakout box means less tax on the PS4 itself, but you would only see performance increases on VR titles. If it is even able to do that, if.Well it sort of is. Assuming binaural audio is considered important, as is the 'unwarped' screen for spectators, the PU takes that processing requirement away from the PS4 so it has more of the GPU available for the rest of the game.
Those things seem sensible to farm out to the PU. I wonder if it handles any of the sensor fusion and tracking of headset/move/DS4? Perhaps not if the camera still goes direct into the PS4?
Thread name needs to be changed into
"Playstation VR comes with a powerful 3D audio processing i.e. the break out box "
This just needs the killer app and then I'm all in.
GT Sport anyone?
This just needs the killer app and then I'm all in.
GT Sport anyone?
That's you guessing period.
Sony aren't going to offer a premium ps4 with better specs, it'll just split the user base and make development even harder than it already is. It's clear the VR box is only for the headset, and not to "boost" the PS4 beyond its original configuration.
Funny seeing PlayStation VR hyped up and fans have to climb down over pricing. Y'all deluded thinking this will be some magically affordable device. They have first party studios and a plug and play solution- they can charge more than their competitors if they wanted to.
Go watch the video. When talking about PU, presenter talked mostly about splitting video streams and 3D audio processing [which he described as "heavy lifting"].
If there's one thing that's going to kill VR, it's the price.
Any task taken over by the PU means there is more time for the PS4 to do its thing.No, at 14min 28 sec he talks about making it more powerful and reducing latency, made no reference to audio until he got to that section, you care conflating the points.
You could've said the same thing about smartphones. Who would've guessed the world would start paying hundreds of dollars for phones every year or two when we were getting them for free? If VR is a compelling enough piece of technology the price won't stop people from buying it.
Eh, this may be a game changer literally but it isn't figuratively. At the end of the day it's a toy and that has a lower ceiling than something like smart phones.You could've said the same thing about smartphones. Who would've guessed the world would start paying hundreds of dollars for phones every year or two when we were getting them for free? If VR is a compelling enough piece of technology the price won't stop people from buying it.
So you and a few others are saying the breakout box is a glorified HDMI splitter, in direct contradiction with these slides.Reprojection is done by the PS4.
There were people who shouted down there being a second box. I remember during the whole Xbox oculus announcement the theory was floated about an external box like the ps4 was rumoured to be using, and multiple people posted that there was no box, and it was only early dev hardware that needed it.
So you and a few others are saying the breakout box is a glorified HDMI splitter, in direct contradiction with these slides.
Have a source on that?
Thoughts on the video:
interesting that 3D audio is done in the breakaway box, and also that it does a couple of ancillary things like converting the signal to USB.
The same teams that work on Sony camera optics are working on the optics for PSVR... that helps the screen door effect to be greatly reduced for PSVR vs even DK2 (both have 1080p screen)
Great info. Loved the video.
very much related:
https://twitter.com/antovsky/status/660123586259193856
Anton is the guy behind the Move and VR tech and now works at Mediamolecule
Any task taken over by the PU means there is more time for the PS4 to do its thing.
Dr. Marks already said this thing does spatial 3D and reverse optics and converting a HDMI data stream into either a mirrored or two different HDMI video output streams. When this was said the feature set was finalized.
To do this quickly you also need specialized silicon. That doesn't mean the thing is going to nitro boost the PS4.
This title is misleading because people just start believing in secret sauce bullshit even though they always say in interviews this is not the case.
Old interviews? That thing was this month and the feature set finalized.and you are citing old interviews, the SDK and the break out box has improved since then, it is a moving target just like the guy stated they will be making it more powerful.
Old interviews? That thing was this month and the feature set finalized.
I think this thread is highly misleading because now we'll hear from people about special sauce 2nd GPU latency reduction when they always deny this when specifically asked.
I'm done I'll take the word of the guy who's working with the unit over some forum poster.
I'm fixing your post for you for accuracy:I'm done I'll take the word of the guy who's working with the unit over some forum poster.
Riggs has the potential to be this for me.
I'd be almost certain that the real "killer app" for VR on any platform will not be available for a long while and devs learn the tricks of what makes an incredible VR game / experience.
RIGS seems to be that killer app
though i absolutely HATE that description
Yeah, that will most likely move the most units.It's GT Sport, it's pretty the only "mainstream" franchise that has been announced for VR.