The software is available as a free trial to let you get a feel for what playing with the PSVR on your PC is like. In fact, I was forced to use a USB 2.0 port, as the PC didn’t detect the PSVR in any of my test system’s USB 3.0 ports.īefore plugging the PSVR hardware into the computer, you must install the Trinus PSVR application. I’ve read suggestions that you need a USB 3.0 port, but the Trinus PSVR software doesn’t include documentation, and the setup diagram doesn’t specify what kind of USB port to use.
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The PSVR’s resolution is much lower than the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive HMDs, but don’t expect to play VR games on a budget GPU: Your system must be able to maintain 120fps at 1080p to play games properly on the PSVR headset. To use a PSVR HMD to play VR games on your PC, you’ll need a gaming computer that has a free HDMI port. I did manage to get the PSVR working on my PC, though. I don’t have access to a PS3 camera (yet) so I haven’t yet tried the PSMoveService to bring motion controls into the mix. Trinus PSVR tricks the headset into thinking it is plugged into a PS4 to make it operate in VR mode instead of Cinema Mode. Out of the box, Sony allows you to plug the PSVR headset directly into any HDMI video source to activate Cinema Mode. That same company recently released a product called Trinus PSVR that lets you use a PSVR as a SteamVR HMD.
A company called Odd Sheep Games released software in 2016 called Trinus VR that allows you to stream Steam games over Wi-Fi to your smartphone.
Thanks to the work of a few curious and eager developers, you can play Steam games with a PSVR. Sony spent its time engineering the hardware to work well with the PlayStation 4 console and, as far as we know, the company doesn’t have plans to support the HMD on PC, but when has the lack of official support stopped the enthusiast-slash-hacker community from doing something? Never! That’s when. The PSVR connects to the PlayStation 4 console via USB and HDMI, which means there’s no reason why the hardware couldn’t work on a PC.