VR devices have their own app stores, similar to smartphone app stores, where you can browse and download games and apps.
Hand controllers translate your real-world gestures into whatever game or application you’re using, although standard gaming joypads can also be used. The more expensive, higher quality headsets need to be connected to a computer to run apps and games, while some cheaper ones use a cellphone clipped to the front of the headset.Īll headsets need to be used alongside a good quality pair of headphones, and there are other optional accessories from hand controllers to treadmills that are all designed to enhance your simulated experience of being in another world. The most important piece of a virtual reality kit is the headset, a device like a thick pair of goggles that goes over your eyes.