Plug in to issue 6

Jack Parsons Editor

Virtual reality is officially here. After years of waiting, the first Oculus Rift headsets will be strapped to users faces on 28 March. But that’s not all you need to plug in to the Matrix: in addition to a £500 headset, you will need a super-powerful PC and potentially all sorts of accessories. We crunch the numbers and weigh up how the Oculus compares to the HTC Vive and PlayStation VR from page 12. If you’re not into gaming, you may wonder what VR has to offer you. Google’s Cardboard VR is much simpler than the Oculus (it is literally made out of a cardboard box), but the search giant recently released stats on what Cardboard’s five million users have been doing in VR for the last year. Gaming was…

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Gadget (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 6

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