TL;DR

Linus dusts off a mid-’90s VR rig to see how gaming’s “next big thing” looked when DOS reigned supreme. He straps into the beige beast, fires up classics like Quake, Rise of the Triad and Descent, and—surprisingly—finds the experience more fun (if clunky and low-res) than he expected.

Along the way he tears down the chunky headset and proprietary controller, marvels at how far VR has come, and gives props to the pioneers who made immersive gaming possible decades before modern headsets hit the scene.

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