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Decades after the 1992 flick The Lawnmower Man got our hopes up (and the ill-fated Nintendo Virtual Boy dashed them a few years later), virtual reality (VR) is finally happening in a big way. (Really, this time! We mean it.)
The simplistic, though still impressive, Google Cardboard and Samsung Gear VR platforms have both been around since 2014. And Google s updated Daydream View landed in late 2016, upping the sophistication and comfort factor, while delivering a more robust environment for developers. These modest VR setups had you strap your smartphone into a viewer fitted with lenses, allowing your phone to become both the screen and the graphics-rendering device charged with creating an immersive world.