Five VR game genres to watch this year

A couple of weeks ago, I was eating lunch at a virtual reality event when a fellow attendee asked me a question. He wasn’t sure, he said, what app and game genres really felt VR-only, rather than existing media on a different kind of screen. This is something most VR enthusiasts have probably asked themselves at some point, and given how niche the medium still is, it’s an open question. But if anything can give us a sense of where things might be going, it’s the Game Developers Conference, which has slowly turned into one of the biggest shows of the year for VR. I’ve recently returned from GDC, and after spending hours with various headsets and motion controllers, I’ve got five genres you might be having fun with later this year — if you...

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