Apple and Sony are working on Vision Pro support for PSVR2 controllers

The Vision Pro could summation support for Sony PSVR2 controllers soon, according to Mark Gurman successful today’s Power On newsletter for Bloomberg. Apple and Sony apparently planned to denote support for the controllers “weeks ago” but person pushed backmost the rollout. Under this rumored partnership, Apple would statesman trading Sony’s controllers, which aren’t presently disposable connected their own.

Sony has apparently been moving connected adding the support for months, while Apple has asked third-party developers if they would return advantage of Sony’s VR controllers. That’s perchance awesome news for Vision Pro owners who wish the headset had much gaming chops. (There are precious fewer good, autochthonal visionOS games — Thrasher, a mesmerizing crippled wherever you fling a elephantine worm / dragon point astir a psychadelic abstraction utilizing conscionable manus movements, comes to mind.)

Gurman writes that Apple besides wants to usage the controllers for much than gaming — the controllers will beryllium capable to navigate visionOS, and would connection much precise controls successful apps for illustration Final Cut Pro and Adobe Photoshop. Right now, you tin brace a modular Bluetooth controller and navigate visionOS — tapping buttons to prime things, scrolling pinch the analog sticks, and truthful on. They besides activity for gaming, but you’re mostly constricted to iPad and iPhone games pinch controller support aliases made-for-iOS emulators aliases that native Virtual Boy one.

Will this business carnivore consequence and thief games really flourish connected the platform? I’m not instantly hopeful, fixed the Vision Pro’s income and Apple’s way grounds of support from crippled publishers.

Still, the Vision Pro is fundamentally different from Apple’s different devices, and VR is its ain landscape. And location are signs the organization wants this, pinch astatine slightest 1 fully-funded Kickstarter project to create Meta Quest 3-style controllers, called the Surreal Touch, for the Vision Pro. Maybe the Vision Pro will get immoderate awesome VR games — whether anyone will beryllium astir to bargain them is different mobility entirely.