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Apple's spatial computer: a high-resolution passthrough headset driven by eyes and hands. Safari on visionOS supports WebXR for immersive VR sessions, so link-openable worlds reach it without an app.

A very small, very light PC VR headset with micro-OLED displays, tethered to a computer running SteamVR. WebXR reaches it through a desktop browser.

A very light PC VR headset with micro-OLED displays and SteamVR tracking, made for long sessions. It flips up like sunglasses, so you can glance at the room without taking it off.

Standalone mixed-reality headset with colour passthrough. Its built-in browser opens WebXR from a link, in VR or with your room around you. No PC, no cable. The 3S is the cheaper sibling: the same platform and browser, with simpler optics.

A standalone mixed-reality headset with colour passthrough cameras and a depth sensor, so virtual things can sit on your real table. An enterprise edition exists for business use.

The first headset on Google's Android XR. It ships with Chrome, and Chrome on Android XR runs WebXR, so a link opens in VR or in passthrough with your room around you. Eyes, hands and voice drive it.

A hybrid headset: standalone on its own, or a PC VR display over a cable or wireless streaming. Eye tracking and a hot-swappable battery make long sessions practical.

Valve's wireless, lightweight headset for a Steam library, streamed from a PC or played on the headset itself. Valve's page offered a waitlist rather than a buy button when we checked.

A mixed-reality headset built for professional training and simulation, tethered to a workstation, with passthrough meant to blend real equipment into virtual worlds. Bought by companies, not people.

XR display glasses for a private big screen from a phone, handheld or laptop. Light enough to wear in a seat on a train.

Display glasses that hang a large virtual screen in front of your eyes from a phone, console or laptop. Closer to a wearable monitor than a headset, and the glasses-first branch of immersive hardware.

Motorised shoes that roll you back toward the centre of the room as you walk, so real steps carry you through a virtual world without a treadmill. Business edition on order; the maker says consumer sales resume in 2027.

A dish-shaped slide treadmill: low-friction shoes and a back support let you walk, crouch and turn in place while your steps become movement in VR.

An omnidirectional treadmill for the home: you walk or run in place, in any direction, while the game moves you through its world. Sold as a complete system, or in versions for Quest and PC VR.

A sit-in motion simulator that pitches, rolls and spins without limit for flying, driving and coaster rides in VR. The maker's site says Yaw VR is temporarily closed; the simulator is still sold through a licensed partner.

A full-body suit that gives electro-tactile feedback and captures motion and biometrics, plus a glove that brings touch to the hands. Both are developer kits for training and research, not something to order for the living room.

A wearable haptic vest that turns sound and action in PC and VR games into vibration you feel across your torso.

A scent device that automatically releases smells matched to what is happening in a game: gunfire, forest, storm, racing. Sits beside any console or screen rather than on a headset.

A personal scent display: scent released in timed bursts so you can smell a virtual world as you move through it. A desktop model, and a pocket-sized one that also works with VR.

A floor of small powered hexes that lets a person walk in any direction without leaving the spot. A Disney Research project, not a product: nothing to buy, but a working sketch of a room whose edge you never reach.