The $60 adapter will let you play PC VR games directly on your headset, but you won’t get HDR, eye tracking, or adaptive triggers.
The PlayStation VR2 headset is finally being liberated from the confines of the PlayStation 5. Sony now has a $60 adapter that lets your $550 VR headset work with any of their Steam-based VR games. But hold off from slamming the buy button just yet. There are a few tradeoffs for taking your VR2 to PC, some of which take away the PSVR2’s best features.
The adapter connects the VR2 to a PC with several cables. In the images accompanying PlayStation’s blog post, The normally wireless VR2 has a wired connection to the adapter box, which connects to the PC via USB and DisplayPort. A separate connection can also be attached to a monitor for the benefit of anybody watching you stumble through the finicky hacking puzzles in Half-Life: Alyx.
The thing is, you’ll also need to have a PC with a DisplayPort 1.4 output and a separate DisplayPort cable. Otherwise, the minimum specs are about what you expect, with a minimum of Intel Core i5-7600 or AMD Ryzen 3 3100 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, and upwards of an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 or an AMD Radeon RX 5500XT, though really you’ll want a fair bit beefier rig if you want to play any games to the 4K standards supported on the VR2.
