This week, Sony gave the PSVR2 a new lease on life by adding PC VR support. This allows owners of the second-generation headset to play PC VR games like Half-Life: Alyx, provided they buy the $60 PC adapter . However, some users report that they managed to get their headset working on their rig without buying the adapter.
As reported by RoadToVR , several Steam users have reported that they were able to get the PSVR2 running on their gaming PC without the adapter by simply connecting the PSVR2's USB-C cable directly to their graphics card and downloading the PSVR2 Steam App . That bypass is possible thanks to VirtualLink, a type of USB-C port on some GPUs. This port would have streamlined setting up a VR headset on a gaming PC; instead of using multiple cables, the VirtualLink would power everything on a single USB-C cable.
VirtualLink sadly became obsolete after a few years, despite initial reports in 2018 and 2019 indicating it would become a new standard in graphics cards. Sadly, this means the newer GPUs, such as the GeForce RTX 30 and 40 series, do not have it with the GeForce RTX 20 series, such as the RTX 2060 and its Super variant or the AMD Radeon RX 6000, RX 7000 series, and Radeon VII. As UploadVR reported in March 2019 , when the publication rounded up every desktop GPU and gaming laptop that included the VirtualLink USB-C port, even some of the compatible GPUs may still need to include it.
One example is the RTX 2060 series, where only the Founder's Edition and o.