Gamers are bringing Virtual Reality to the PS4 ahead of time
We recently covered the release of Twisted’s unofficial PS4 Remote Play client for Windows. We bought and tested Remote Play PC and were generally impressed with it. However, Sony reacted by announcing they would release their own Remote Play PC. This turned the once super exciting unofficial client into a “niche” product. Who would pay for an unofficial tool when the official one is right around the corner and will be free?
It turns out several gamers are already using the unofficial PS4 Remote Play PC app, and doing interesting things with it. Gamer and tinkerer @JasonLeonidas posted several videos showing a Remote Play session from his PS4 to his Samsung Note in VR Split screen (see below).
Jason L mentions there is virtually no lag.
Audio and video is streamed from my PS4 to my Windows 10 PC using Remote Play (Thanks Twisted for all your hard work)
Then audio and video is wirelessly streamed to my Samsung Galaxy Note 4 in Vr/split screen.
I have my Moga Pro controller connected to my Note 4 through bluetooth and controls are sent wirelessly from my Galaxy Note 4 to the PC which sends the controls to the PS4.
People have commented that this is not true Virtual Reality as moving your head does not necessarily control movement in the game. Jason L replied that head controls are being worked on.
The setup is fairly simple, but involves streaming the PS4 screen to his Windows 10 PC (thanks to Twisted’s app Remote Play PC), then from his Windows 10 machine to his Galaxy Note 10 running in VR Mode. With the right VR headset (either the official Samsung VR for Note 4 headset, or a google Cardboard headset), one can turn their PS4 gaming into an immersive PS4 experience through this setup.
@Twist3d89 achieved full 3d after I had someone make a negative comment to me earlier. Slight issue with contols pic.twitter.com/jTEz0R7mnN
— Jason Leonidas (@JasonLeonidas) December 20, 2015
Let’s recap, you’ll need:
- a PS4 (duh)
- Twisted’s unofficial Remote Play for PC
- A computer running Windows
- A “VR split screen” compatible phone (in Jason’s video above a Galaxy Note 4)
- A VR Headset (Samsung VR for Note 4, or Google Cardboard. People with more recent Samsung devices can try the latest samsung VR)
Jason L gives a detailed explanation of his setup in the video below:
This is of course lots of tinkering at this point, but we know that Playstation VR is coming sooner than later. Are you excited for the possibilities involved with VR on the PS4??
The latency on that would be absolutely terrible
The latency this must have though…
I wouldn’t call this “VR” at all, more just 3D….but I don’t think there are any PS4 titles that take advantage of 3D, I know some PS3 games did though
But the PS4 is streaming a non-3D image to the PC. So this is faked 3D via software, can’t imagine a faked 3D image being very good.
Its just classic stereoscopic 3D….Theres nothing magical about it and it has existed for at least 50 years already, possibly even longer. You dont need any “magic 3D stream” to use stereoscopic 3D…
It isn’t “classic stereoscopic 3D” seeing as it isn’t actually stereoscopic. Remote Play has no ability to render a scene from two different angles (yet?) so its just a flat image formatted to work with with a 3D headset.
Except you do. Whole trick in stereoscopic 3D is having separate image for each eye. And that’s not the same images, those images account for difference in eye position, so point-of-view on each is shifted in relation to another, just like your eyes get depth of perception in real life. What he got is same image for each eye. It’s nice HMD and beats monitor for immersion, but it’s not 3d, unless he somehow made game to render two separate images for each eye.
It’s not going to be any good. Since it’s only one viewpoint, the “True 3D” (lol) is horrible. I took his image into photoshop and the only thing different it seems is one eye’s viewpoint is shifted to the side by about 2 pixels. He might think it’s 3D but it’s not. No way to tell the difference between something right next to you or off in the distance.
This post almost seems like an ad for that guys remote play app. Better off just getting a capture card so you can take the raw 1080p feed instead of a compressed 720p feed.
silly nit picking comments above. who cares if its not true 3d….its very early stages and its a small step into a better direction
Exactly my thoughts. Look at all these little beaches full of envy because they wont ever do anything to be featured and liked by people. lol
Maybe Twisted can take this idea and include an option for simulating a 3D picture directly to the PC without necessity for streaming the signal again to smartphone