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Virtual Reality 101: Your guide to VR

Here's everything you need to know about what VR is and how it will affect your life in the near future.

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<p>My door to my CES booth. My own home.</p>

Imagining the future of CES

Commentary: How can I imagine a world where we can't see ahead more than a few hours? This year's virtual show already felt like science fiction.

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Facebook has VR plans for your virtual office, with smartglasses coming soon

Facebook Reality Labs head Andrew Bosworth discusses why identity in Oculus is so Facebook-centric, how that will change, and when to expect neural input tech. (Spoiler alert: Not this year.)

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John Deere makes me feel like I'm home on the farm during virtual CES 2021

The company designs a VR demo to walk reporters through the experience of planting crops -- all the way down to the seed level.

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9 great reads from CNET this week

Building a DIY computer to run Apple software, getting the COVID-19 vaccine earlier than expected, tooling down the road on something that looks like a laptop with wheels, and more.

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<p>Sundance's festival experience this year includes a virtual space station with a party bar, art gallery and cinema house, all orbiting the Earth next to the International Space Station.&nbsp;</p>

How Sundance will virtually beam you to space to watch movies and party

Feel like escaping Earth right now?

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<p>The Oculus Quest 2 is a surprisingly good workout device. Just know its limits. (Start with Beat Saber.)</p>

My newest fitness tracker is a VR headset

Oculus Move has shown me where fitness apps could head next.

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Hitman 3 brings entire trilogy to virtual reality

A big win for PlayStation VR owners.

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<p>CNET Thursday Zoom is soul-restoring (also, I made it my Virtual Background)</p>

2020 forced us all to live online: How my virtual year played out

Commentary: Some things about going full-time virtual worked, others didn't. But we're never going back to the way things were.

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The best VR headset for 2021

PC, Playstation, or Oculus Quest 2? Here's how to decide.

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<p>What's really going on in this KFConsole video announcement from KFC?</p>

This KFC gaming console is real after all, and keeps your chicken warm

The fast-food chain unveiled a real gaming console powered by Intel that keeps your fried chicken warm while you play video games.

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Sundance Film Festival will let you hang out in space next to the ISS (apparently)

The fest's New Frontier program -- always packed with virtual reality and other tech-driven storytelling -- is pulling out all the stops next month during Sundance's mostly virtual festival.

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The farm is going VR

John Deere is sending VR headsets with virtual tractor demos for CES 2021, as the tech industry tries to figure out how to make virtual product demos feel real.

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