WTF Happened April 2025

Dig deeper into a rabbit hole or two.

This is the fourth month of WTF Happened 2025 Edition! I'm running late with all these recap articles, but as I've said before, retrospectives are never on time.

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Best VR Headsets 2025

Multiple categories of VR headsets.

Meta has cornered the market for the past 5+ years since the original Oculus Quest released, and the Meta Quest 3 is extremely affordable for what you get. However, it's not the best hardware on the market for every use case, even in budget tier pricing. Some people will prefer to stay away from Meta products based solely on morals. For this reason, I'll give you several categories of VR headsets and for the ones where Quest 3 shines, I'll give one good alternative.

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VR Is So Fun It's Sickening!

VR comfort settings ruin some experiences.

Humans are hardwired to be really reliant on real world stimuli, and when we take that element away, our brains can be really stumped and that confusion can lead to major problems. Those problems could just be aggravated and may have already existed. However, VR is a piece of technology that truly isolates us in a way that can be quite sickening.

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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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