Then I stood up on the dock and had to walk forward, which in Horizon is accomplished by flinging one’s arms up and down. Watched the water run down my face and arms. I gawked at the bright green, photorealistic moss inches from my face. For the only time that day, the headset digging into my nose melted off and gave way to the lush, vibrant scenery around me. It was a simple, quiet moment, the beauty of the virtual world almost disorientingly immediate. I was grabbing the rungs of a ladder, hand over hand, and climbing. I wasn’t fighting a big robot dinosaur, beheading a zombie, or hucking a space taco across the room. The whole experience gelled for a moment, and the potential of the hardware seemed viable.
Stuck bobbing in the water, I had to swim to a ladder by some docks and haul myself onto dry land. Early on, the player character gets knocked out of a boat by a giant robot dinosaur. Sony’s promise for PSVR2 is that the device will enable you to “escape into worlds that feel truly real.” It’s your typical hyperbolic marketing statement, but it actually rang true at one moment in the Horizon demo. Robo dino go big smash in Horizon: Call of the Mountain.
The controllers are wireless, but Sony wouldn’t share details about how long the battery will last.
There’s a single trigger on each controller, and another pressable pad on the handle. The buttons are split, with the circle and X button on the right controller and the square and triangle on the left.
The button layout on the VR2 Sense controllers didn’t feel as intuitive as the standard PS5 controller, at least not right away. (Look very, very closely at the matte finish on the bottom of a DualSense controller. During my demo, one of the Sony reps gleefully pointed out that the roughness was actually made up of tiny PlayStation button shapes-circles, triangles, X’s, and squares. (It kind of seems like the company should have saved the DualSense name for the controller that is literally two parts, but oh well.) These controllers have the same matte finish around the grip that you can feel on the existing DualSense units. The PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers incorporate many of the same features from the DualSense controller Sony developed for the PS5. The new controllers have handles with wide white circles that hover around your wrists. The new VR2 Sense controllers are a big step up from PlayStation’s Move controllers that Sony paired with the first-generation headset.
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