It is no secret that Sony is developing a successor to the PlayStation VR In February of this year, Tokyo-based Sony revealed that it was developing a new virtual reality unit for the constantly out-of-stock PS5

Since then, there have been few official updates from Sony, but a recently discovered patent application gives us a glimpse of what the device's controller might look like

A patent application for what should be called the PSVR 2 controller was filed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) on February 26, 2021 The image submitted with the application shows the same device as Sony's previously revealed official renderings of the PSVR 2 controller

Each of the images in question has multiple black dots, and some of the dots appear to be associated with tracking points on the device According to the application document, "The present invention improves the stability of using the camera to detect light emitting units" This would presumably be a PS5 HD camera

Aside from the placement of the tracking lights, the patent application does not indicate anything beyond what we have already seen from the official renderings We see three additional buttons that the user can press with the middle, ring, and pinky fingers No one knows what these additional buttons are for As seen in the official renderings, the ring behind the buttons and the user's thumb are clearly visible

This is not the first time we have seen a patent application for the PSVR 2 In early November, a patent application surfaced for a headset for the device; in 2019, another patent application mentioned the possibility of a wireless headset

That particular patent application stated that "signals may be transmitted [to the head-mounted display] via a wired or wireless connection It further stated that Bluetooth could be one method of wireless connection to the console

While the latest patent application is certainly genuine, it does not indicate anything that will actually see the light of day; even the official rendering released in February is not 100% definitive

In any case, we will eventually see a successor to PSVR, but we don't know when that will be It will be interesting to see how this device will differentiate itself from machines like the Oculus Quest 2 and the Valve Index

The PSVR 2 hub contains all the information we have gathered so far