Sony’s PlayStation VR2 headset is coming successful “early 2023,” according to posts the institution made connected Twitter and Instagram. Sony has been trickling accusation retired astir the upcoming headset implicit the past respective months, and present we person astatine slightest a timeframe for erstwhile we tin expect to get our hands connected the hardware.

While the institution released details of the headset’s design earlier this year, it inactive hasn’t announced a price. It is, however, promising a batch for the PlayStation VR2 — it’ll diagnostic displays that adhd up to 4K solution and tin tally astatine 90 oregon 120Hz, person a 110-degree tract of view, and usage foveated rendering, which renders definite parts of the representation arsenic sharper than others to marque things easier for the machine (or, successful this case, the PlayStation 5). The institution besides says the headset connects to your console with a azygous USB C cable.

Sony has already announced it volition have a lineup of astir 20 “major” games disposable erstwhile it launches. The titles see games acceptable successful the Horizon and Walking Dead universes, arsenic good arsenic VR versions of No Man’s Sky and Resident Evil Village.

Unlike the archetypal PlayStation VR headset, the PS VR2 won’t usage a camera connected to your console to way your movements. Instead, it’ll usage inside-out tracking, akin to the Quest 2, wherever cameras connected the headset itself are successful complaint of the question tracking. This means that the PS VR2 volition besides beryllium capable to fto you spot your surroundings portion you’re wearing the headset. Sony besides says that the PlayStation 5 volition let you broadcast yourself playing VR games, though you volition person to person a PlayStation HD camera connected.

Sony has besides shown disconnected the orb-shaped controllers, which volition person adaptive triggers and haptic feedback similar what’s offered with Sony’s DualSense controller for the PS5. They’ll besides person finger-touch detection, which tin consciousness wherever you remainder your thumb, index, oregon mediate fingers without having to property anything.

The PS VR2 volition lone enactment with the PS5. Given that it’s been hard to get your hands connected the console since it launched successful November 2020, that whitethorn look similar a atrocious idea. However, determination are immoderate signs that those issues could beryllium clearing up — the consoles nary longer merchantability retired instantly aft Sony opens a queue for them, and you’ve been capable to bargain a bundle that includes Horizon Forbidden West for a fewer days now. At the moment, it seems imaginable that, by the clip the headset comes out, you whitethorn conscionable beryllium capable to prime up a PS5 whenever you want. With that said, determination is ever the anticipation that Sony volition conflict with banal of the PS VR2, successful which lawsuit the PS5’s availability whitethorn beryllium conscionable 1 portion of the equation for those trying to get into VR gaming.

The PS VR2 could look stiff contention erstwhile it’s released. Meta’s high-end “Project Cambria” headset is acceptable to travel retired sometime aboriginal this year, though, similar with the PS VR2, it’s hard to accidental however overmuch it’ll cost. (The information that Meta recently raised the price connected its two-year-old entry-level Quest 2 whitethorn not beryllium a large sign.)

The tech manufacture astatine ample is besides inactive waiting for Apple to denote its long-rumored mixed world headset, which volition reportedly outgo thousands of dollars. Apple expert Ming-Chi Kuo has reported that the institution could uncover the headset in January 2023.