The biggest problem with Sony\u2019s PSVR 2 virtual reality headset is the dearth of games<\/a>. I\u2019d hoped Sony\u2019s PC adapter would change that. The chance to play Half-Life Alyx<\/em><\/a>, the best VR game yet made, seemed like reason enough for existing owners to justify the $60 adapter purchase<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n But I can\u2019t currently recommend Sony\u2019s PC adapter. If I had purchased it with my own money, rather than borrowing one from Sony, I\u2019d have asked for a refund long before now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s a shame, because the $550 PSVR 2<\/a> is still a good headset, with image quality that arguably beats the newer $500 Meta Quest 3<\/a>. Playing Half-Life Alyx<\/em> inside Sony\u2019s headset isn\u2019t just more vibrant thanks to the richer colors of its OLED screen; it\u2019s more thrilling, too, with the panel\u2019s true blacks making me feel the terror of its darker corridors. The Quest 3 experience looks incredibly washed out by comparison. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n But what really scared me in Half-Life: Alyx<\/em> was the damned glitch<\/em>. How \u2014 when I lift my pistol to deal with an unspeakable horror \u2014 I\u2019d often find my hand had become detached from my body, stuck in place, two feet above the ground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n I\u2019ve spent eight hours troubleshooting this issue and ones like it over the past week, and I\u2019m no closer to a solution. My Quest 3 streams this game almost perfectly from the same PC in the same room, and yet my PSVR 2 struggles even with a hardwired headset cable to help. I see plenty of others reporting the same issues online, yet others report no issues at all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Is it luck? Perhaps, but I suspect it might also have something to do with how Sony cheaped out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n You probably know that Sony\u2019s headset connects to the PS5 with a single USB-C cable that routes its display signal, power, and data simultaneously. Once upon a time, graphics card manufacturers were planning to standardize on a USB-C port with that same combo \u2014 they called it VirtualLink<\/a>, and while the brand didn\u2019t take off, some GPUs did make it out into the wild with a do-it-all USB-C port.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The PSVR 2 PC Adapter appears to be the same thing. The three-inch by three-inch square puck takes USB-A and DisplayPort from your gaming PC and power from a DC barrel jack, combining them into a single USB-C port for your headset on the other end. Find a DisplayPort cable (it doesn\u2019t come with one and doesn\u2019t support HDMI-to-DisplayPort), fire up the free PlayStation VR2 App on Steam<\/a>, and suddenly, you have a SteamVR headset capable of displaying any Steam game.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But the headset is the only<\/em> thing the PSVR 2 adapter adapts. Sony provides no way to connect the PlayStation VR2\u2019s all-important controllers. <\/em>They need to connect to your PC over Bluetooth, but Sony does not provide any form of Bluetooth radio for that \u2014 and figuring out controller connectivity on my own has been an utter mess.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n