<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nTethered, standalone, and smartphone headsets are the 3 types of VR head-mounted displays. They vary in almost all aspects, including but not limited to features, cost, quality of viewing experience, hardware requirements, and uses. While tethered headsets are generally the most powerful and offer the best viewing experience, they are also the most expensive as well. Smartphone headsets, on the other hand, are the cheapest and the most minimalist, offering a frills-free service to get your feet wet in VR. It goes without saying that standalone headsets often find themselves in the middle of the two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Back in the good old days, Virtual reality could have referred to anything ranging from a Lawn-mover Man simulation to computer-generated 3D models. Fortunately, though, things have only grown simpler over time. After its inception in 2012, the phrase \u201cVirtual Reality\u201d has almost exclusively been used to describe 3-D digital content viewable in a VR … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simulatorhardware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simulatorhardware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simulatorhardware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simulatorhardware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simulatorhardware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simulatorhardware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.simulatorhardware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simulatorhardware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simulatorhardware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simulatorhardware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simulatorhardware.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}