Virtual reality
Jun 24 2009, Michael Rundle

Filed under: Gadgets, Games What do you get if you attach an LCD screen, a motion-sensor and a game controller to a plastic gun? You get the closest thing to a decent virtual reality first-person shooter that we’ve ever seen. Thanks to one mullet-ed nutte

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