If you want the best VR experience, mobile VR headsets like the Gear VR and Google Cardboard won't do at all. High-quality VR with headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive require equally powerful ...

HP will make a major virtual reality push in June, when it will start shipping its Omen X VR backpack PC. The backpack PC has already been announced, but the company until now had not provided a ...

Kickstarter has a lot to answer for. Because of the crowd-funding site every fool thinks they've got the next million dollar idea. The backpack for your desktop PC tower is the latest entrepreneurial ...

Thanks to headsets like Google Cardboard and Gear VR, the virtual reality experience is already pretty portable. But on a smartphone, you’re only getting a watered-down version. That’s why MSI decided ...

MSI’s Backpack PC, which debuted at Computex in Taiwan this week, aims to do away with one of the banes of virtual reality: being tethered to your PC by a display cable. This portable rig highlights a ...

Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Apparently computers you wear like a backpack are still a thing. Two years after launching the Zotac VR GO gaming PC that you strap to your back while running virtual reality games and applications, ...

Wearable tech is getting pretty extreme. Zotac has released the fourth edition of its backpack computer that lets you run PC VR applications untethered from your desk. Instead of having to connect to ...

When the combined armies of Zorg are firing photon weapons at you, 5 kilograms doesn’t seem like much. Even the cables and straps that are a necessary part of MSI’s Backpack PC fade into the ...

Earlier this month, Micro-Star International teased the VR One during the Tokyo Game Show gaming convention. It is a PC that customers wear on their back, enabling full freedom of movement when ...