The detailed updates of the Apple WWDC event on its various software platforms, including visiones 26 for its Apple Vision Pro headphones, and two of the most exciting updates were the space widgets and the news that the support of the Sense PSVR 2 controller is on its way.
As Apple stood out in its ad, the new controller support will be very useful for virtual reality games developers, since it will allow Vision Pro Apps to use in a family control scheme that matches more closely that uses other platforms.
The ‘appearance and pinion’ mechanism of vision pro can be intuitive for users, but is very different from what other VR headphones use, which makes the cover difficult.
However, booking arguments that this update is possibly too little late for the Vision Pro platform, there is currently a much greater problem to address: you cannot buy PSVR 2 controllers separately.
So, if you want to take advantage of this new Apple Vision Pro function, you will have to buy a PSVR 2 VR headphones package completely new at $ 399.99 / £ 399.99 / AU $ 649.00.
That said, Visionos 26 is not thrown immediately, although it is already available in Beta. With luck, at the time of its complete launch, Sony will have made available to PSVR 2 Sense Controllers to buy on their own, something that fans of their headphones have been asking for since the launch.
However, at the time of writing, there has been no confirmation that this is the case, and since some of the false steps both Apple and Sony have done with their headphones, I cannot say that I was surprised if the controllers remained exclusively part of the PSVR 2 package instead of being sold separately.
We will have to wait and see what happens on this front, but the silver lining to Apple opens its visional platform to virtual reality controllers is that we could see that launching their own phones, or perhaps even launching the next Apple Vision headset with a pair.
Taking into account the rumors that we have heard about Apple that they wish to make their next headphones more affordable, this would be an intelligent decision, since ocular monitoring (a key part of the existing vision pro control scheme) is not cheap, and could be an easy characteristic to sacrifice to reduce costs.
