Sony has shared the first official look at the PS VR 2 headset, and although it’s pretty similar to the original design, seeing it can certainly make its release feel closer.

In a PS Blog post sharing the news, Hideaki Nishino, the Senior Vice President, Platform Experience, explained that the headset’s design was based on the PS5. When designing the console, they had the PS VR 2 in mind. The two share the same secret thousand of tiny PlayStation symbols, with them being included on the front and back bands of the PS VR2 headset. 

Yujin Morisawa, Senior Art Director at SIE, who led the design of the headset, had the following to say: 

“When I started to work on the design for the PlayStation VR2 headset, one of the areas I wanted to focus on first was the idea of creating a vent in the headset to let air out, similar to the vents on the PS5 console that allows airflow. Our engineers came up with this idea as a good way to allow ventilation and avoid having the lens fog up while players are immersed in their VR games. I worked on many design concepts to achieve this, and in the final design, you can see there is a little space in between the top and front surface of the scope that contains the integrated ventilation. I am really proud of how this turned out and the positive feedback I have gotten so far. I hope our PlayStation fans will also agree, and I can’t wait for them to try it out.”

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