If your eyes glaze over and your senses go numb at the mere mention of virtual reality, this is a message for you. Because I think you’ll come around, and you’ll thank me when you’re prepared for the rush of VR experiences to come. Maybe not today, but in the next couple of years when …
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The future of tech is here, and it may not be as much fun as you think. To join in, you’ll need to strap a black, 1.5-pound mask to your face so you can have an out-of-body-like experience that might make you vomit. There’s also the chance you’ll trip on the 13-foot-long cord that connects the device to a PC. …
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Sony on Friday announced preorder information for its upcoming PlayStation VR headset. The Japanese electronics giant will be offering the virtual reality headset as part of a special bundle starting on Tuesday, March 22. The bundle will cost $499 in the US, $100 more than the headset by itself, but with it you get two Playstation Move motion controllers, the …
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Virtual reality is almost upon us. And no, this isn’t the heavy, constrictive, poorly animated VR you might remember from the early ’90s. These modern entries into the VR space are lighter and faster, and pump out the sort of fantastical 3D worlds our younger selves always dreamed of experiencing. Most of these devices are heading to us this year …
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If you spend $800 on an HTC Vive virtual reality headset, you’re going to want something to play. And so far, we’ve seen fewer games for the Vive than for the rival headsets from Oculus and Sony. But Valve has a couple new pieces of Vive content that will be totally free — and they’re some of the best, most …
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Sony needs to do two things: Convince you to buy a virtual reality headset, and convince you that the $399 PlayStation VR is the one you need. That may be harder than you think. If you’re reading this story, you’ve probably heard of VR, a technology that uses goggles to strap a screen so close to your face that your …
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Blame the media. Blame Google search. Blame lazy marketing. But just like hoverboards that don’t actually hover, everything you view in Google Cardboard or Samsung Gear VR or any number of other VR headsets is not necessarily “virtual reality.” But, it’s too late to go back now. VR is the catch-all name for all manner of things experienced with goggles …
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I don’t care how many cool points I lose by saying this: an animated short VR movie just blew my mind. I hadn’t seen anything like “On Ice” before, a “Blades-of-Glory“-meets-Pixar short created by Google, a veteran in VR animated movies by today’s standards. The movie follows ice skater Rudy Lazarus as he spectacularly performs in an all-white, chest-hair-revealing, deep-V …
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The HTC Vive VR headset has arrived at CNET, but we’re going to take a break from our extensive, exhaustive forays into virtual reality — for testing purposes — to answer a few questions you might be asking about Valve’s take on gaming in virtual reality. Is virtual reality fun? Yes! I’ve spent a lot of time mucking around in …
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Xbox VR? Don’t bet on it. Microsoft doesn’t see the need to produce its own virtual reality headset — and even if it did, that headset probably wouldn’t plug into an Xbox game console in the same way that rival Sony’s PlayStation VR headset works. “Would we ever do our own VR device? We could, if we thought we had …
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