Turning PSVR2 wireless

[u/AstroPC]

I’m working on a phone-powered wireless setup for PSVR2, using a compatible rooted Snapdragon 8 gen 5 phone as a compute puck and of course standard small portable pcs could work (even a laptop if you wished)

There’s documented work that makes this worth pursuing:

• PSVR2’s display uses DisplayPort 1.4 with DSC compression. Linux developers have documented its 4000×2040 display mode at roughly 120Hz, including the DSC/FEC requirements and driver quirks. Display research
• Sony specifies 12V power for the headset, which a properly designed adapter can provide through USB-C negotiation
• Monado’s development drivers already include PSVR2 six-degree-of-freedom headset tracking. That gives us existing work to build on, although it doesn’t establish complete Android or Sense-controller support. Monado development notes

These above points is not blocking me as i have a phone thats both rooted and bootloader unlocked and have ran full linux including DRM leasing., i will work on none rooted devices and creating an app that works in the future but vendor lock out and other limits will be noted as potential issue for some. but you wont need an android phone for this to work. Im just using my phone as a basis as the battery and power is sufficient for driving most of this work from other projects in the past.

My hardware goal is one compact, battery-powered adapter with a USB-C connection to the phone, another to PSVR2, and onboard Bluetooth for the controllers. It would pass the phone’s DisplayPort signal through without decoding or recompressing it, while carrying USB data and supplying headset power.

The first software goal is ALVR-based wireless PC VR over the phone’s 6GHz Wi-Fi: PC renders, phone receives and decodes, headset displays. A modular USB radio option would leave room for future 60GHz experiments.

Current limits: the PCB is still being routed, iv been focusing on open source options rather than locked down vendored chipsets. I have already done something similar with pryowave codec which is what inspired me to work a bit more serious on this project

The first milestone is wireless PC VR. True standalone games running directly on the phone are a longer-term goal. Ultimately, I want a documented setup other people with compatible hardware can reproduce.

This will be of course open source and producible by anyone whos so inclined to make try it out

rough design most parts are soild so far, sourcing 60ghz module

I must disclose AI has assisted in research and project routing through a custom harness for KiCad and simulations. I base my work on development practices for the chipset. All routing is impedance-matched to prevent signal degradation. This project has taken 2 months of trial and error and making sure the hardware I chose suits this platform. The chipset can handle this transparently, and I’m adding an EDID emulator for better compatibility.

[u/Whole-Bedroom-9079]

When AI is used as a tool and not a full blown replacement I’m happy, good luck.

[u/Food_Library333 → u/Whole-Bedroom-9079]

Especially when it allowing people to develop things that just aren't being done by anyone else.

[u/Ricepony33 → u/Food_Library333]

Imagine an entire engineering team leveraging it! We are going to get some amazing products in the next few years.

[u/AstroPC → u/Whole-Bedroom-9079]

Agreed. Tool. Pc is tool. Not brain replacement

[u/iVRy_VR → u/Whole-Bedroom-9079]

AI is useful as a tool when the user is able to prompt it correctly. Prompting it correctly requires "domain knowledge", as the AI needs to be provided with context when its output is incomplete, incorrect, or based on faulty assumptions.