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It's Finally Time To Buy: PSVR2

Black Friday deals are no joke.

The Playstation VR2, affectionately called PSVR2, is a wired VR headset from 2023 that came out exclusively for the Playstation 5. However, back in August, a PSVR2 PC adapter came out, which means this console VR device is now a PCVR device as well.


The PSVR2 is on sale right now on a variety of storefronts for $349! That's the cheapest it's ever been, and it comes with Horizon: Call Of The Mountain...


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PrismXR Portable Charger 30W

There are better alternatives to this over-engineered battery.

Sometimes, I see a really pointless, inferior product and wonder "Maybe there's a reason tons of people buy this?" The answer is almost always that those people are ignorant of the better solution. This product, the PrismXR Carina W1 Portable Charger 30W, is nothing more than a fancy-looking battery strap you can wear multiple ways that comes with cable organization tools. It's not cheap at $40 sale price ($60 regular price), and I would not have bought this... but as a reviewer, I tend to get things for free, so... yeah, I got this for free, and I decided to review it here for others to be able to find information about not just this product but a better solution.

Okay, so the product in a vacuum is not bad....


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That Time VR Was Mainstreamed By Google & Disney

Tilt Brush was awesome.

There are a lot of times in VR's history which led to tons of user adoption, and one of those times was when Google created a mobile app that turned your phone into a simple VR headset that could look around at depth-enabled content and even connect wirelessly to your computer to play games with stereoscopic 3D visuals. Soon after that, Disney partnered with HTC to advertise a Google app called Tilt Brush which ran on the HTC Vive as a launch exclusive. Tilt Brush was actually release April 2016 as a freebie for Vive purchasers. That's right, Tilt Brush was a launch title for the HTC Vive, and its advertising was about Disney using it to create 3D Little Mermaid drawings. Times were simpler...


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Taking a Break: 2024 U.S. Election Edition

This went about as poorly as you could imagine.

I'm so disappointed in The United - yeah right - States of America, and I can't emphasize enough how sorry I am for the world to have to endure our country's worst leader another 4 years...


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