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This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. This time, what happens in Vegas is leaving Vegas, and right away. Since you can’t make it to CES 2016 in person, we’re bringing the show to you …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. Nearly four years ago, the Oculus Rift was little more than a smartphone screen duct-taped to a set of ski goggles which claimed to transport you to a virtual world. Now, after years …

Manufacturers take great care in designing packaging that is just as appealing and stylized as the product it houses. For that reason, it may be difficult to let go of the crisp, new box your device came with, and in some cases, you shouldn’t. As you mull over recycling a product box, answer these four questions. 1. Are you within …

This story is part of CES 2016. Our editors bring you complete CES 2016 coverage and scour the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. I’ve been in refugee camps, been on Mars, glided through prehistoric aquariums and attempted to watch live debate coverage. I’ve walked across footbridges on Everest, painted in the air with glowing light, and …

Now playing: Watch this: Watch us scale a beautiful cliff in this game for the… 2:06 Here’s an experience you probably won’t have in real life: climbing a famous mountain. Few humans ever attain the frosty summit of Mount Everest, or even pull themselves up the more hospitable cliffs of Rio de Janeiro. Video game developers are about to give …

I’m standing on a balcony in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood with a sweeping view of the Bay Bridge, and I have to crane my neck to take in the whole view. It’s a stunning sight that the employees at Google’s offices here see often. The search giant now wants to make moments like this accessible to everyone, and it’s decided …

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is promising you a glimpse at the future of computing. It will change the way you communicate and give you a totally new way to experience video games, watch movies and see the world, he says. The catch: You have to strap a screen to your face. Do you do it? That’s the question consumers will …

The Magic Leap One is now available to order for $2295. We got some hands-on time with the Magic Leap One, but if all you want are the facts, here’s everything you need to know. We also spent some time at the Magic Leap headquarters in Florida to get the inside story. 3D worlds that open before your eyes when you put goggles …

Enlarge ImageFreddie Wong and his digital studio RocketJump created an original series and a VR short film for Hulu. Hulu Digital filmmaker Freddie Wong would be the first to tell you he doesn’t really know the best way to shoot virtual reality. Then again, nobody else does either. Virtual reality, an immersive form of entertainment that uses a high-tech headset …

Scott Stein/CNET I sat in the corner of an audience that I wasn’t really in. I watched the back of a bald man’s head as he snapped photos on the stage with his camera. I was high up, looking down on everyone as a virtual screen appeared in this virtual audience, with a countdown to the Democratic debate that was …