I’m a Mac guy so I’m a bit out of touch with the state of PCs. I know PCs usually are a few years behind technology wise, but I’m kind of surprised they still don’t have bluetooth as standard. The technology is decades old.
That usually depends on if the PC has an inbuilt Wi-Fi chip. The Bluetooth controller is usually coupled in the same chip. So PCs that lack Wi-Fi usually doesn’t have Bluetooth.
Most motherboards I’ve seen come in two versions: one with WiFi and Bluetooth, and one that doesn’t have wireless but is a few dollars cheaper.
I don’t think it makes sense to cheap out on the motherboard only to spend twice the difference on a USB adapter. I only have a dongle because Bluetooth motherboards weren’t quite so ubiquitous when I bought my current machine.
For prebuilts, the cheapest office PCs seem to come with Bluetooth now. Maybe there’s some kind of ultra barebones office PC stock out there, but I think you need to go out of your way to get those.
What I think matters is how terrible the consumer GPU market has become in the past five years. Decent GPU tiers doubles or tripled in price. Many gamers are probably rocking older hardware than they would’ve if it weren’t for cryptocurrency and AI eating up the consumer GPU market.
I know PCs usually are a few years behind technology wise.
I am an IT technician, and it takes a lot of confidence and ignorance to be this wrong.
I’m kind of surprised they still don’t have bluetooth as standard.
This explains so much about your earlier statement, you seem to think that there is a a standard PC, there isn’t.
There are hundreds of manufacturers making PCs and PC parts.
I have never seen a laptop in decades that lack Bluetooth, however there are still desktop motherboards you can buy without wifi or bluetooth, but this is not my reason for making this post…
I am pissed because I don’t get why you wouldn’t just put the required Bluetooth into the PSVR2 PC adapter unit.
I would argue that buying a $10-20 usb Bluetooth adapter is much preferred to giving my info and data and privacy away to Meta. Not to mention the other things you can use it for.
Personally I’m really glad Sony went with Bluetooth over some sort of proprietary tech.
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I have been planning on getting the PSVR2 setup for the PC next month and I had not heard about needing a bluetooth reciever…
Sigh, I might just get the Pico 4 or Quest 3…
I’ll give it a month to get full reviews then I’ll decide on what to do…
I’m a Mac guy so I’m a bit out of touch with the state of PCs. I know PCs usually are a few years behind technology wise, but I’m kind of surprised they still don’t have bluetooth as standard. The technology is decades old.
That usually depends on if the PC has an inbuilt Wi-Fi chip. The Bluetooth controller is usually coupled in the same chip. So PCs that lack Wi-Fi usually doesn’t have Bluetooth.
Most motherboards I’ve seen come in two versions: one with WiFi and Bluetooth, and one that doesn’t have wireless but is a few dollars cheaper.
I don’t think it makes sense to cheap out on the motherboard only to spend twice the difference on a USB adapter. I only have a dongle because Bluetooth motherboards weren’t quite so ubiquitous when I bought my current machine.
For prebuilts, the cheapest office PCs seem to come with Bluetooth now. Maybe there’s some kind of ultra barebones office PC stock out there, but I think you need to go out of your way to get those.
What I think matters is how terrible the consumer GPU market has become in the past five years. Decent GPU tiers doubles or tripled in price. Many gamers are probably rocking older hardware than they would’ve if it weren’t for cryptocurrency and AI eating up the consumer GPU market.
I am an IT technician, and it takes a lot of confidence and ignorance to be this wrong.
This explains so much about your earlier statement, you seem to think that there is a a standard PC, there isn’t.
There are hundreds of manufacturers making PCs and PC parts.
I have never seen a laptop in decades that lack Bluetooth, however there are still desktop motherboards you can buy without wifi or bluetooth, but this is not my reason for making this post…
I am pissed because I don’t get why you wouldn’t just put the required Bluetooth into the PSVR2 PC adapter unit.
This is what happens when you’re in a walled garden. You lose sight of what exists outside of it.
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I would argue that buying a $10-20 usb Bluetooth adapter is much preferred to giving my info and data and privacy away to Meta. Not to mention the other things you can use it for.
Personally I’m really glad Sony went with Bluetooth over some sort of proprietary tech.
I am just confused as to why the adapter itself doesn’t have a BT reciever…