While both have 6 degrees of freedom (meaning it can track up/down, right/left, and forward/back), the Vive’s sensors allow for a “freer” experience than the PSVR. Another major advantage for the Vive is the positional tracking via the sensors versus the PSVR which only uses a camera-facing headset. The superior visuals of the Vive played a significant role in our feeling of immersion compared to the PSVR. The games look better in Vive because its based on a PC that’s capable of better graphics. Verdict. The clear winner was the HTC Vive. We believe Mirage Solo will mark a measurable step forward in the utility of VR. It will be priced around $400 and ship in the spring of 2018. Untethered VR around the corner. Last week Lenovo announced Mirage Solo, an untethered standalone hardware VR headset, that runs on Google’s Daydream platform.

These headsets have reinforced our faith in the technology’s potential, but have also shown us there is still a long road ahead. We believe there will be 536m VR users in 2023 with a market value of $62B compared to the 25m users in a $3.5B market today.

The PSVR is the most popular VR headset out today (2m units in the year after its Oct-16 release), while the Vive – along with the similar Oculus Rift – is on the high-end of both cost and performance. While we mostly tested games, our experience with these headsets leaves us more optimistic than ever about VR’s future in consumer and commercial use cases from entertainment to training and therapy. If it is your first time in VR, both of these headsets will blow you away. Virtual Reality technology as a whole is more developed than many realize. The takeaway is that the HTC Vive delivers an unmatched experience around visuals, motion tracking and overall performance, but the PSVR is easier to use. While each headset has its own specs and limits, VR experiences differ mainly as a result of the type of machine driving them, a computer (Vive and Rift), a video game console (PSVR), or a smartphone (Daydream and GearVR). We compared two of the most popular tethered virtual reality headsets, the PlayStation VR and the HTC Vive, to get a sense of where VR experiences are today, what needs to improve, and where they might go tomorrow.

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