"No Man's Sky: Voyagers" uses AI upscaling for virtual reality

With the "Voyagers" update, "No Man's Sky" becomes the only game that currently supports the AI feature on PS VR2. "PSSR" analyzes light and color information in real time and generates a higher resolution without massively increasing computing power. The result should be significantly clearer textures and details in virtual reality scenes, comparable to Nvidia's DLSS on the PC.

PSSR combined with eye tracking

According to programmer Martin Griffiths, Hello Games worked closely with Sony for over a year to combine PSSR with the existing foveated rendering. This technology uses eye tracking to render only the currently focused image area in high resolution. According to Griffiths, this integration was technically extremely complex.

PSSR was originally not compatible with the PlayStation VR2. However, Sony announced when the Playstation 5 Pro was released in November that the function would be added via a firmware update. This now appears to have happened with the latest update. It is not yet clear how many other titles will follow the example of "No Man's Sky". However, according to media reports, Sony is already planning to replace PSSR with an even more powerful upscaling technology in the long term.

Major update brings new content and problems on the Xbox

The 'Voyagers' update also brings extensive new features to all platforms apart from Playstation VR2: Players can now build their own customized corvette spaceships, board them with friends and use them as a shared base for multiplayer missions. The modular ships can be equipped with sleeping quarters, med-bays, teleporters and even kitchens. A new exosuit design, additional graphical optimizations and performance upgrades have also been integrated.

For Xbox players, however, there are currently still problems. After installing the Voyagers update, black screens appeared in some cases. Hello Games has already released an initial hotfix, but this should not work for all players. Until the issue is finally resolved, deactivating HDR10 and Dolby Vision in the Xbox system settings or shutting down the console and disconnecting it from the power supply can also help.

(joe)