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By Sean Hollister , a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Head-mounted displays have always been a niche product, but they were still relatively commonplace a decade ago. By putting a pair of tiny LCDs right in front of their eyes, HMDs helped digital professionals and extravagant early adopters immerse themselves in a pixelated virtual reality They've never truly disappeared, of course, and companies like Vuzix even sell relatively affordable versions to this day, but none have captured our interest quite like the HMZ-T1 from Sony. Rather than cheap LCD shades, the headset has a pair of 0.

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Share this story. Probably not, but for what it's worth, this is definitely the best video headset I've ever used. The Good It's fun!

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Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. How we test monitors. Back in the s, giddy with the promise of this new thing called "cyberspace," video arcades around the country started birthing games with a newfangled VR virtual reality headset. The new games enabled players to stand in a little box that resembled a cherry picker without crane attached and shoot at pterodactyls and interact with blocky "Money For Nothing" characters.

Hmz t1

By Sean Hollister , a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Head-mounted displays have always been a niche product, but they were still relatively commonplace a decade ago. By putting a pair of tiny LCDs right in front of their eyes, HMDs helped digital professionals and extravagant early adopters immerse themselves in a pixelated virtual reality They've never truly disappeared, of course, and companies like Vuzix even sell relatively affordable versions to this day, but none have captured our interest quite like the HMZ-T1 from Sony. Rather than cheap LCD shades, the headset has a pair of 0. It takes a single HDMI connection for audio and video, rather than several component or composite video cords, and its slick design is more evocative of our sci-fi anime video game future than the goggles and glasses of old. Why now?

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The Good It's fun! The Verge homepage. Games with intricate onscreen displays that include figures on the far edges, on the other hand, definitely suffer. I've used it on and off for a few days now, including several prolonged sessions, and every time I came away with a minor headache, the same type I get from an overtight baseball cap. I'd probably do it with my head propped up against a pillow, though. Tech Computing. Our expert, award-winning staff selects the products we cover and rigorously researches and tests our top picks. But this can also translate to incomprehensible dialogue from mumbly, deep-voiced actors like Harrison Ford. Blurring on the edge is visible with moving video but not distracting most of the time. Comfort Comfort Not immediately, but perhaps after an hour or three, it can get rather annoying. They do the job for a wide variety of content, from the bullet ballets of Shoot 'Em Up to the epic score of Killzone 3 , but when it came to the wonderful music in Once , I noticed that however I changed up the settings, I was merely moving between muddy and harsh. Oh, and of course you'll need to have the HMD plugged into the included set-top box, and have it plugged into your video input source. He lives in New York City where he writes about streaming and home audio. One omission, I suppose, is channel-changing controls for watching TV, but there's enough space to look down and see what you're doing with your hands as long as you've got a remote. Watching in 2D was also fun, but not quite as enveloping.

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Sure, I wouldn't say no to a p picture instead, but these displays are fantastic. I should also note you'll probably want to keep your head still; my 3D-averse friend tried it while moving around and wound up fairly dizzy as a result. Since crosstalk is one of the most annoying 3D artifacts and visible to some extent on every 3D TV I've seen, it was refreshing to experience a stereoscopic presentation where it simply wasn't a factor. First, you adjust the straps in back, like a baseball cap, for the size of your skull. As a youth, he was awarded a free session for the photography studio at a local supermarket. Expertise Ty has worked for radio, print, and online publications, and has been writing about home entertainment since For one thing, they reflect plenty of light, and Sony doesn't do much to keep it out. If you buy through our links, we may get a commission. Conclusion Who is this headset aimed at? But there is one major caveat: the heavy headset becomes uncomfortable after a while. Unfortunately it's not possible to get all of the text on the screen sharp at the same time; preserving sharpness in the center of the screen rendered the edges blurry.