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Matthew Parris

Virtual reality news is coming - and the implications are ominous

All reports edit. Virtual-reality reporting may make that harder to remember

5 March 2016

9:00 AM

5 March 2016

9:00 AM

John Humphrys staggering around in a piece of ‘virtual reality’ headgear that looked like binoculars and made him feel sick was as attention-grabbing as radio can be. So I listened in last week as the intrepid Today presenter tried out infotech’s latest gimmick.

The Oculus Rift began life on a crowdfunding website, heralded as an exciting new tool in virtual reality: a tool that computer-games boffins had long been trying to crack.

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