I tried a VR backpack PC for the HTC Vive and it was pretty cool
 

I tried a VR backpack PC for the HTC Vive and it was pretty cool
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VR backpacks are officially a thing.*

HP, MSI and Zotac all an**unced VR backpacks, which are basically just battery-powered gaming laptops, with shoulder straps this year. And at IFA 2016, I finally got to try one for myself from XMG.

SEE ALSO: Alcatel's Vision VR headset doesn't need a phone


The difference with the German computer maker's "Walker VR Backpack" is that it's the first one that's actually shipping this year. Everyone else's VR backpacks are still concepts with ** concrete pricing or launch dates.

The first thing I **ticed before putting the Walker on was how dorky it looked. As if wearing the HTC Vive and holding two wand-like controllers in my hands wasn't silly looking, wearing a VR backpack, which at best is still a mess of dangling wires, makes you look like a "geeky version of RoboCop" according to my colleague, Stan Schroeder. Read more...

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