Week in Tech: Week in Tech: VR is everywhere and everything is awesome

By techradar

This week we’ve mainly been strapping buckets to our heads and bumping into things. No, we haven’t been on the cider again – we’ve been getting ourselves ready for virtual reality, which is going to be absolutely huge this year. We discovered what VR games you’ll be able to play, what you’ll have to pay to play them, and whether a quick bout of Battlefront will have you reaching for a sick bucket. Not only that, but we’ve discovered Sky’s plans for UHD TV, Microsoft’s plans for Xbox and why it’s possible to tweet pigeons. So strap on your super-specs: it’s Week in Tech!

The future on your face

GDC 2016, the annual Games Developers Conference, is taking place in San Francisco this week, and you can’t move without bumping into people wearing funny head gear. Virtual Reality is everywhere this year, and we’ve been able to try the actual products you’ll be able to buy. First up, possibly the most important VR product we’ll see this year: the Sony PlayStation VR. It isn’t as amazing as the Oculus, but at £349 / $399 / AU$549 it’s an awful lot cheaper – and there are going to be stacks and …read more

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