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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 in so have some high expectations here okay so this was like the fun stuff so we'll weigh 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 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anyway next we have a controller which has actually been around for a while this is the PlayStation Move so these were originally made for the PlayStation 3 and they were essentially Sony's answer to the Wii Remote from Nintendo now they were not massively popular a few games took advantage of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 going to 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 ps3 our 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 probably something you're going to 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 camera it's not like if you already have all those you need to go out and pick this one up 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 the 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 to the extra trouble let's see what's inside your Quick Start Guide oh yeah it's a quick start guide different 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 on 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 what Oh No site not fun stuff more cables the future I thought the feature is Wireless this is not Wireless we have wow that's light the psvr 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 yeah the real world I didn't sign up for this I don't go back to psvr haha oh you know what this is the V arguing on play your the exhilaration of an illegal street race an illegal luge all right 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 alright immediately not digging the motion here ah this is like motion sickness 101 X and sore more of 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 heist that sounds like fun one thing let's say about using the Move controllers it's pretty obvious that they really weren't designed for VR because while you have your X and square and all your normal PlayStation buttons without being 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 ok shake hands oh of course I would Sony wait that's actually a Sony can i light the money on fire I lit the money on fire ah open this up this oh ok oh wow I should probably got my gun hahaha this is cool so I am noticing a few limits to the tracking so they try to lean too far out of 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 Allah is powerful in a gaming computer so for example when I look at the BMW I can see a lot of aliasing with the sharp edges cuz I see a lot of detail in here I've gotta say this uh looks like I'm sitting in an actual car you know I've been playing for about 45 minutes or so right now and PS we are still staying very very comfortable so my face is sweaty everything feels nice and smooth oh I'm on the wrong side the reddish Oh Berto what hahaha that's cool let's do it alright this is solid I gotta say I am NOT displaying right now so Eve Valkyrie 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 PSP R is a bit noticeable arm 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 PSP R 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 have 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 - hahaha try it 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 PlayStation 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