{"id":158353,"date":"2025-06-04T20:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158353\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T20:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T20:06:14","slug":"apple-may-finally-announce-vision-pro-vr-controller-support-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/158353\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple May Finally Announce Vision Pro VR Controller Support Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rumors surfaced late last year that Apple was looking to finally add VR motion controllers to Vision Pro, albeit through an unusual collaboration with Sony to support PSVR 2\u2019s Sense Controllers. Now, 9to5Mac <\/a>reports that the project is still on track, and official news could come as early as next week.<\/p>\n

The report states that not only is visionOS slated to add official support for PSVR 2\u2019s Sense Controllers,\u00a0but also PlayStation and Xbox gamepads.<\/p>\n

9to5Mac\u00a0wasn\u2019t able to confirm whether the controller update will definitely be announced at Apple\u2019s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next week, or rather later in the year, however the Cupertino tech giant is set to announce changes coming to visionOS 26 at WWDC\u2014a notable naming shift also set to affect macOS and iOS.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Hideo Kojima wearing Apple Vision Pro | generative extend based on an image courtesy Hideo Kojima<\/p>\n

Vision Pro has presented a unique challenge to VR developers since the mixed reality headset\u2019s February 2024 launch. The $3,500 XR device currently only supports hand-tracking and Bluetooth accessories, such as traditional gamepads, keyboards, and headphones, forcing XR studios to either\u00a0start new projects, or retroactively add hand-tracking to existing games.<\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t always make sense, as many games are specifically designed around motion controllers. Essentially, this could set the stage for more games, both traditional and XR, to launch on Vision Pro\u2019s App Store.<\/p>\n

That said, adding PSVR 2 controllers to Vision Pro likely won\u2019t be a massive sales driver of the admittedly pricey headset, which has largely been couched as a spatial computer instead of a game console. It is however a sign that Apple may finally be ready to fully embrace motion controllers in cheaper versions of the headset<\/a>\u00a0in the future though.<\/p>\n

This follows a series of reports from Bloomberg\u2019s\u00a0Mark Gurman, which claim Apple approached Sony in early 2024 to officially integrate PSVR 2\u2019s controllers. Notably, Apple confirmed only a few months prior to the reported talks that it had\u00a0no plans to make or support VR controllers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll of course be following the big keynote, which kicks off on Monday, June 9th at 10 AM PT (local time here<\/a>). You can follow along with us by tuning into\u00a0Apple\u2019s YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rumors surfaced late last year that Apple was looking to finally add VR motion controllers to Vision Pro,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-158353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-virtual-reality","12":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114626899780635036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}