Hands-on with Dell’s gorgeous VR headset

Dell’s Visor is a fantastic virtual reality headset, but Windows Mixed Reality still needs polish,

HAYDEN DINGMAN

For nearly three years now, virtual reality on the PC has been a two-company game. Oculus and HTC, the Rift and the Vive. Sure, we’ve had others come and go – Razer’s OSVR headset, for instance. But in general, it’s been a two-headset market. In October we’ll have seven. On 17 October Microsoft will preside over the largest VR roll-out in history, overseeing the release of Windows Mixed Reality headsets from Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, and HP, alongside the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update. Microsoft’s goal is to bring its titular ‘Mixed Reality’ to the masses – theoretically a spectrum of augmented and virtual reality tech, though these initial headsets are just VR headsets, really. So what’s it like? I went hands-on with the Dell Visor at PAX West recently,…

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