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VR Safety and Content Concerns: What Parents and New Users Should Know Before a Quest Headset Goes On
Strap a Meta Quest onto your head and you're looking through high-definition lenses backed by motion sensors and built-in spatial audio, all tuned to trick your …
Is VR Dying? The State of VR and Why Your Headset Still Matters
Look over at your desk or entertainment center right now, and if you own a virtual reality (VR) headset, it's probably sitting …
YouTube VR: Watching Video in a Headset—The Geek’s Guide
Put on a headset to watch YouTube VR and search for 360 or VR180 video, and you'll usually end up staring at …
VR and ADHD: Focus, Therapy, and Attention Research
Two identical headsets can run virtual classrooms that look exactly alike on screen, and one of them is logging 3D coordinates for …
How Long Should Kids Use VR? Safe Screen Time by Age, From a 20-Minute First Session to Teen Limits
Unbox a Meta Quest in the living room or spot one on a holiday wish list, and the first thing you want …
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Types of Geeks: From Star Wars to the Dodgers’ ‘Geek Squad’ — A Taxonomy Backed by a 2004 Forum Debate
Two fans can stand in the same convention hall line and have almost nothing in common except the badge lanyard around their necks. One spent six …
Nintendo Sucks Now: The $80 Game, Drift, and Virtual Boy
I loved Nintendo back in the Nintendo 64 days, but I don't anymore, and saying Nintendo sucks now is an audit of the hardware and the …
McDonald’s Characters Guide: From Evil Grimace to the Grimace Shake
When I was a kid, I loved climbing through the McDonald's play parks, surrounded by fiberglass statues of the entire McDonald's characters roster, including deep-cut weirdos …
Hot Lara Croft Cosplay: 69+ Photos & DIY Build Guide
We're refreshing one of the most popular galleries on Geek Extreme right now — over 69 photos of screen-accurate, impressive Lara Croft cosplay. And here's the …
How to Spot a Gamer: 5 Subtle Lifestyle Indicators
Modern gaming is a casual pastime not picked up on a whim; it's a lifestyle with a highly specific forensic, acoustic, and technical footprint. Demographic profile …
Spicy Uno Rules: 4 Spicy Twists to Spice Up Game Night
When I was a teenager, I used to go camping with friends, and they often wanted to play Uno. Why? Because they knew that I couldn't stand …
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The 20/20/20 Rule for VR: Eye Strain and Comfort
Staring at a virtual horizon doesn't relax your eyes, because the lenses sit centimeters from your face. Every VR player who finishes a long session with …
Cool Things to Do with a VR Headset (Reddit Community Picks)
Boot up a standalone headset and look at the storefront shelf: it's the same roughly 20 blockbuster titles you saw two years ago, while genuinely cool …
Best VR Experiences on Quest 3: Room-Anchored MR Picks
A game that floats a 2D menu over a live camera feed isn't mixed reality. It's just a virtual reality game with the lights left on. …
How to Use a VR Headset with a Phone: DeX, Casting, and Spatial Phone
Search for how to pair a phone with a VR headset and the results read like three people arguing from different decades. One guide tells you …
Free Things to Do in VR: The Ultimate Zero-Cost List
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Things to Do in VR Other Than Gaming: 37 Tested Apps From Anne Frank House to a CDC Lab
Unbox a Meta Quest 3 or any modern VR headset and the store front page immediately tries to hand you a rifle or turn you into …
How Game Providers Test New Pokies Before Launch
A pokie can pass thousands of test spins and still have a problem buried in its bonus features. So how do developers find those faults before …
What Does GGS Mean? From Post-Match Handshake to Sarcastic Jab
Two letters in a post-match chat box close out a single round, and adding one extra S scales that salute across an entire evening of matches. …
