PS VR 2 Teardown Uncovers Controversial Display Panel Detail
As the PlayStation VR2 is now available to everyone, a YouTuber decided to dismount PlayStation’s virtual reality headset to inspect its components further and discovered a controversial detail about its display panel. The PS VR2 brought many improvements compared to its 2016’s predecessor, but this discovery about its display panel may upset some virtual reality enthusiasts.
The PS VR2 came out on February 22, offering virtual reality fans a new headset with next-gen technology. PlayStation’s latest virtual reality headset comes with an OLED panel with a 4K display resolution and 90Hz/120Hz frame rate that supports HDR, a field of view of approximately 110 degrees, four cameras mounted on the headset to track players’ movements, and six-axis motion sensors. The PS VR2 also includes new controllers with haptic feedback able to detect finger touches and enhanced eye-tracking technology to further improve players' immersion in the games they are playing.
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When dismounting a PS VR2 to inspect its components, Shahram Mokhtari discovered an interesting detail about the subpixel arrangement of PlayStation’s virtual reality headset. While the original PS VR included a full RGB arrangement for each pixel, the PS VR2 comes with a PenTile display that has the full number of green subpixels but only half the number of red and blue subpixels. This PenTile subpixel arrangement makes the image seem softer, but comes at the cost of a loss of visual detail compared to full RGB panels.
This different subpixel arrangement means that despite having 4 million pixels per eye compared to the 1 million pixels per eye its predecessor offered, the PS VR2 only has 8.1 million
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