By Jon Porter
Sony’s PlayStation VR headset has finally hit store shelves, and right now people across the world are tucking into the first console virtual reality games.
But the headset is actually much more versatile than Sony has given credit for. Not only can you use it for 360-degree photos and videos on the PS4 natively, but you can also hook the headset up to literally any device that uses HDMI with some pretty interesting results.
So once you’ve played through all the games on your PlayStation VR demo disc, why not give one of these other use cases a go.
360-degree Photos and videos
By now you’ve probably seen more than your fair share of 360-degree videos on Facebook and YouTube, but you can also view this sort of media through the PlayStation VR.
There’s just one (fairly significant) catch, and that’s the fact that you can’t actually view online photos and videos using the headset.
Instead you’ll need to use 360-degree videos stored locally on the console.
It’s functionality that’s promising for the future rather than immediately very helpful, and we’re hopeful that Google updates its PS4 YouTube app to make use of the headset.
But nevertheless, if you’ve got …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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