PlayStation VR is almost useless without the camera

From the beginning, Sony has said that the PlayStation VR headset is $400. That was never the full story because you also need to own a PlayStation Camera to get that version of the device to work with games. And it turns out that this virtual reality system can’t do much at all without that extra peripheral.

Without the camera, the $400 PlayStation VR cannot boot up any of its virtual reality games. Instead, you get a warning message asking you to plug in the $60 PlayStation Camera. You can’t move past that error screen or back out of it. This device simply isn’t a real VR machine unless it is working with that visual-tracking device.