Sony launched the Playstation VR2 in February, which received mostly positive reviews from the media. But despite this, it doesn’t seem to have gotten enough consumers interested, because the headset is said to have sold clearly worse than Sony had hoped for.
However, it seems that some hackers decided to get more out of the headset by bypassing the so-called “hardware lock”, or more specifically the hardware authentication that prevents the PS VR2 from working on, say, a computer.
This is praised by hackers in a thread on Neogaf:
Of course, this is not the intention, but as WCCFTech writes, it could put pressure on Sony to make PS VR2 compatible with another platform such as PC:
“The brass tacks of the situation are that hardware compatibility is possible but will take quite some time to figure out and work accordingly. None of this would stop Sony from suddenly releasing a driver that makes the new PSVR2 work retroactively with VR titles outside the PS5 natively. So, it’s a matter of waiting until we see which one comes first, official support or support brought by hardware enthusiasts willing to jump a wide variety of hurdles.”
