I had to take off my glasses to wear the prototype headset, so everything was pretty blurry. And watching zombies’ heads explode is kinda fun.Ĭons: I couldn’t see shit. The difference to my peripheral vision was noticeable as compared to the single screen in front of my eyes in a standard headset. Pros: Unlike its more established competitors, the newly announced Star VR angles two screens around the wearer’s head, giving him or her a much wider field of view. Hardware: A StarVR headset with a shotgun peripheral. What: Based on the comic books published by Skybound (the original source material for the popular AMC TV show), this demo put me in a wheelchair and gave me a shotgun to shoot walkers as I was pushed around by a computer-controlled character. The highlight: After I was eaten, twice, by a hungry pliosaur, I caught myself retreating to the safety of some boulders in between objectives.Ĭons: Caballero had to talk over the game audio to help me understand some of the controls, and the glimpse I got of the story was a bit too self-serious.

Pros: The demo lasted about half an hour, and by the end of it I was thoroughly hooked. Hardware: Oculus Rift Crescent Bay prototype, with PlayStation 4 controller. The pre-alpha of this “time travel dinosaur safari” put me at the helm of something resembling a chair with jetpack controls that could also go underwater and freeze time as I scanned and catalogued dinosaurs. What: “Our goal with this is to prove that VR is not a gimmick,” said Minority Media president Vander Caballero. I’ve been on the VR demo circuit for years, but now it’s put up or shut up: Is this software really ready for primetime? Here’s a roundup of what I saw on Tuesday at the gaming trade show: Time Machine VR There’s a fair bit of virtual reality this year at E3, presaging the first wave of consumer hardware that is headed to consumers in the next 12 months.

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