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PSVR 2 Reportedly "jailbroken" for PC, Hackers Claim Eye-tracking and Haptics Unlock

A hardware hacker group previously behind the PSVR2Toolkit says it’s effectively “jailbroken” PSVR 2 for PC. When Sony released its PC adapter for PSVR 2 in 2024, it released the headset from PS5 exclusivity, allowing users to play SteamVR games on VR-ready PCs for the first time. Still, Sony...

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A hardware hacker group previously behind the PSVR2Toolkit says it's effectively "jailbroken" PSVR 2 for PC.

When Sony released its PC adapter for PSVR 2 in 2024, it released the headset from PS5 exclusivity, allowing users to play SteamVR games on VR-ready PCs for the first time.

Still, Sony didn't release enable every hardware capability, with tethered PC gameplay notably lacking features such as eye-tracking, HDR, and headset rumble.

Now, the hardware hacker group previously associated with the PSVR2Toolkit—an open source driver toolkit interfacing with Sony's PSVR 2 PC support—claims to have "jailbroken" the PSVR 2.

"[W]e can enable HMD vibration and eye tracking camera feed on PC," says group member 'tinybnuuy', who also credits fellow programmers 'supremium', 'tomoeko', and 'ShinyQuagsire'.

"[T]his has been 5 months in the making, we hope to release this soon so that everyone can play with it," tinybnuuy says.

Sony's official PC support for PSVR 2 (via SteamVR) disables key features like eye-tracking, HDR, and haptics. Early efforts however managed to pull eye-tracking data in some respect, but it was notably uncalibrated and not broadly usable.
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By mid-2025, tools like PSVR2Toolkit enabled eye-tracking and controller haptics through a modified driver layer, although it still didn't feature proper OpenXR integration (i.e., no universal foveated rendering), as mentioned previously by UploadVR.

Provided the team's work truly is a 'jailbreak', we would expect to see full access to cameras, headset haptics, and possibly even an HDR pipeline sometime in the near future.

 

[Don Carlo]

If PlayStation VR2 eye tracking actually works on PC, that's huge but I'll believe it when it's stable, not just a demo.

 

[Moses85]

No give me RE9 on PC with PSVR2

 

[Kupfer]

Will these features then be "officially" available on platforms like SteamVR? Doesn't all of that run through Sony and their drivers?

 

[Spyxos]

Why was it not already available?

 

[Skyfox]

Why did they remove 3d movie support?

PSVR1 had it. It's the main reason I threw up my hands and said nah.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Does this still require the PC adapter thing?

 

[DeepEnigma]

Does this still require the PC adapter thing?

Yes. For newer cards.

Only some older cards like the RTX20 series and select RX-6000 could work plugging directly into the graphics card via the VirtualLink USB-C port,

 

[willothedog]

Does this still require the PC adapter thing?

You can get an AIiExpress clone for a third of the price of Sony's, and it includes a DP cable.

 

[Gitaroo]

I thought haptic limitation is the same as dualsense, lack of dual BT modules on PC. Would be cool if they can get HDR to work on the headset on PC, with stuff like RTX HDR, every PCVR games can support HDR.

 

[Kuranghi]

Why did they remove 3d movie support?

PSVR1 had it. It's the main reason I threw up my hands and said nah.

They love to take away 3D support from everything, I have the last Sony 3D TV and its from September 2016.

Just another thing to support that not many people use I guess. I used to have a few customers a year who bemoaned the loss of 3D, always films though, and:

Afaik you can still run customised older drivers from before they removed the 3D support, I saw someone saying Dead Space 2 was extremely immersive with the 3D enabled.

I could do it but I don't have the glasses that came with the TV (was ex-display) and I feel like I'd buy them and play a few times when its ~£30 a pair for used ones.