VR headsets

Digital reality viewers

VR headsets are wearable devices that display virtual reality environments, covering the eyes and often tracking head movement to create an immersive visual experience.

They range from smartphone-based viewers to high-end systems with motion controllers: She put on the VR headset and found herself standing on a cliff in Iceland.

Also called VR goggles or simply headsets in context.

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Categories
Opposites
reality type

VR headsetsnaked eye

Vision without optical instruments

physical reality · AR glasses · smart glasses · HoloLens · heads-up displays

mediation of experience

VR headsetsdirect experience

Unmediated personal encounter

face-to-face interaction · nature immersion

immersion technology

VR headsetstelevision

Broadcast viewing device

projectors · books

Family

reality, virtual, headset, virtual reality

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G