Sony’s PSVR2 teardowns reveal how the headset tracks the Sense controllers

The PlayStation VR2 headset can track the accompanying Feeling controllers thanks to a bunch of IR LEDs hidden in the orb-shaped controllers, according to new teardown movies Sony posted Tuesday night.

Below the Feeling controller go over, the controller itself has a ring of 14 IR LEDs and 3 put elsewhere for tracking, as shown in the Feeling teardown movie. “These infrared lights are utilized by the VR headset’s tracking digital camera to detect the controller’s placement and orientation,” Sony’s Takeshi Igarashi, who also made the DualSense controller, describes in the movie. “The LEDs have been positioned in optimum locations to ensure they are properly detected no make any difference what course the controller is dealing with.” And the cover on the controllers is even produced with a product that “transmits the infrared light-weight emitted internally to monitor the movement of the controller,” he claims.

The Perception teardown movie also reveals the 5 capacitive touch sensors on the controller, a search at the adaptive trigger element (which functions like it does on the DualSense), and even that there are little PlayStation button icons embossed on the controller.

And for the headset itself, that teardown is very neat, far too I loved watching Takamasa Araki, the direct designer of the PSVR2 (and the very first PSVR!), expertly disassemble each the entrance of the headset and the headband. I’d specifically advise scrubbing to 6:07 or so, where by you can see what it seems like on the within of the headset when you switch the lens adjustment dial. Oh, and the headset’s eye tracking characteristic? As proven by Araki, there’s an IR LED all over every single lens and an IR digital camera that captures the light from the LED, and all those function collectively to adhere to your eye’s actions. Tremendous neat.

I genuinely suggest you look at both the headset and the controller teardowns, they are interesting. On the other hand, Sony warns that you really should not test the teardowns your self, noting that using apart your hardware will invalidate the warranty.