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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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Samsung talked a big game at its Note 9 event, but where was Gear VR?

Commentary: Is Samsung's Gear VR headset in a slump, or a transformation?

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Magic Leap is either brilliant or BS. It's ready to prove its AR gear is real

Big money, big dreams, big expectations and a lot of hype. Here’s an inside look at what's been going on at tech’s most secretive unicorn.

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I finally tried Magic Leap, and I have mixed feelings

The Magic Leap One is here. This is what it's like to use.

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VR tour of Hiroshima bombing created by Japanese students

The virtual reality experience recreates Hiroshima before, during and after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city in 1945.

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What is AR and how does it differ from virtual reality?

Two technologies that are confusingly similar, but utterly different.

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Understand AR and VR in minutes

Augmented and virtual reality have similar hype, but distinct abilities.

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I thought VR sickness was a myth. Then I played Mario Kart in VR

Commentary: It nearly made me hurl. I loved it.

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Mario Kart VR is everything virtual reality should be

Plus you get to marvel at Bowser's giant behind.

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Comic-Con 2018: Interviewing the Ninja Turtles in VR

Nickelodeon let CNET's Mike Sorrentino interview Mikey (Brandon Mychal Smith) and Donnie (Josh Brener) using virtual reality to pop into their cartoon world.

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I interviewed the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles thanks to a little VR magic

They turned me into a cartoon, too.

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Google Chrome finally arrives on Daydream VR

Search the web in VR, if you like.

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VR is not dying, insists manufacturer of VR headset

HTC has put out a blog post insistent that VR has a bright future ahead, and to not listen to all signs to the contrary.

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