Help for Sony PlayStation VR2 hand controllers is reportedly coming to Apple’s Imaginative and prescient Professional headset. The objective is supposedly to make taking part in digital actuality video games simpler on the AR headset.

Apple and Sony allegedly labored collectively for months to make this occur.

Imaginative and prescient Professional may assist PlayStation VR2 hand controllers

Imaginative and prescient Professional is Apple’s first foray into what the corporate calls “spatial computing.” The headset focuses on augmented actuality, which overlays computer-generated content material onto the true world, although it provides digital actuality, too.

Gaming is likely one of the hottest makes use of for VR, however at its launch early this yr Imaginative and prescient Professional drew criticism from some avid gamers for a scarcity of bodily recreation controllers. Apple’s headset as a substitute makes use of cameras to trace customers’ hand actions, which allegedly isn’t exact sufficient for superior gaming.

However an answer is seemingly on the best way.

“Apple approached Sony earlier this yr, and the duo agreed to work collectively on launching assist for the PlayStation VR2’s hand controllers on the Imaginative and prescient Professional,” Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported Sunday.

PSVR 2 Sense controllers wrap round every of the consumer’s fingers, and supply a 3 axis gyroscope and three axis accelerometer. Buttons, triggers and sticks are in-built as effectively.

Greater than {hardware} will probably be wanted, although. Behind the scenes, Apple is allegedly urging builders to assist the controllers of their video games. And the controllers can reportedly be used past gaming — visionOS takes their enter to switch the standard hand gestures.

Coming quickly?

“Apple and Sony initially aimed to announce this functionality weeks in the past, however the rollout has been postponed,” studies Bloomberg’s Gurman. “My expectation is that an announcement will nonetheless come in some unspecified time in the future — except it will get abruptly scrapped.

Sony doesn’t presently promote controllers with out its headset, however that’ll have to alter for Imaginative and prescient Professional house owners to purchase them. Which is nice information for PlayStation VR2 house owners who simply desire a substitute controller.