Apple Vision Pro to Receive visionOS Update With PS VR2 Controller Support This Year: Gurman

Apple Vision Pro — the corporate’s first wearable spatial laptop — might supply help for Sony’s digital actuality (PS VR2) hand controllers later this yr, in keeping with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The Cupertino firm has reportedly been collaborating with Sony for a number of months, to introduce help for the PS VR2 controllers on the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, which already permits customers to pair Xbox and PS5 controllers. Help for Sony’s VR controller is anticipated to convey extra exact and optimised controls to Apple’s blended actuality headset.

Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional PS VR2 Help Launch Timeline (Anticipated)

Within the Q&A piece of his weekly Energy On e-newsletter, Gurman states that Apple continues to be working with Sony so as to add help for the PS VR2 hand controllers to the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. It was beforehand reported in December that the iPhone maker had additionally mentioned the plan with third-party builders, as a part of its efforts to persuade them to convey PlayStation VR2 controller help to their video games.

The journalist says that the corporate is anticipated to ship the help for the controller through an replace to visionOS, which might arrive later this yr. Nonetheless, it’s presently unclear whether or not it is going to arrive with the present model — visionOS 2 — or with the subsequent model that’s anticipated to be launched in Q3 2025.

If Apple introduces help for Sony’s PS VR2 controllers, it might allow customers to regulate extra than simply video games on the working system. Again in December, Gurman had acknowledged that Sony’s controllers may additionally enable customers to regulate apps like Last Minimize Professional and Adobe Photoshop.

The addition of help for PS VR2 controllers may also allow help for exact VR controls, thanks to 6 levels of freedom (6DOF) help. The headset already presents help for normal PS5 and Xbox controllers, however they lack 6DOF performance provided by the VR controllers.

Apple has but to announce any plans to introduce help for Sony’s PS VR2 controllers, and we are able to most likely count on to listen to extra on the firm’s annual Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC 2025) occasion that often takes place in Could, or later this yr, when the subsequent model of visionOS is launched.