Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

The ‘VR One’ from MSI debuts at the Tokyo Game Show this week. The backpack provides tetherless VR gameplay powered by NVIDIA’s 10-series GPUs with a hot-swappable battery for extended VR gaming ...

Spend a few minutes with the HTC Vive and you start to forget about your physical surroundings – which can be a hazard if the cord that tethers the VR headset to a computer wraps itself around your ...

The MSI VR One is the world’s lightest VR backpack PC weighing 3.6KG with two battery packs installed. Not only that, the device provides over 1.5 hours of non-stop gaming on-the-move which is around ...

Computex 2016-- MSI's aptly named Backpack PC enables portable VR experiences and removes that pesky cable from the floor. It may not be an exercise in practicality, but it is a bold glimpse into the ...

MSI has this week unveiled a very unique virtual reality system in the form of the MSI VR One, which has been designed to be the lightest most futuristic virtual reality backpack the provides users ...

Remember the virtual reality backpack PC design MSI showed off at Computex just a few months ago? It's already obsolete. MSI has unveiled the finished product, the VR One, and it looks nothing like ...

We’ve previously reported on MSI’s VR backpack, then a concept that we weren’t convinced would make it any further. Turns out it has, and the Taiwanese company has just shown off the finished product.

MSI has yet to fully announce the VR PC backpack and the hardware is still in its early stages. The unit demoed to press was a sample, and sported an Intel Skylake Core i7 K-series processor paired up ...

Earlier this month, Micro-Star International teased the VR One during the Tokyo Game Show gaming convention. It is a PC that customers wear on their back, enabling full freedom of movement when ...

Aloysius Low is a Senior Editor at CNET covering mobile and Asia. Based in Singapore, he loves playing Dota 2 when he can spare the time and is also the owner-minion of two adorable cats. MSI believes ...

What’s the biggest problem with PC-based virtual reality right now? Is it the price? The lack of deep gaming experiences? Or is it that darned cord that keeps you from properly leaping around like a ...