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It's nearly done. After three days of drinking, chatting and, funnily enough, playing games, EGX 2015 is entering its final stretch, and we're all blearily considering the long trek home from Birmingham NEC. And what a year it's been! We've been graced by legends such as Sony's Shuhei Yoshida, been entertained by the Dragon's Den-esque Pitch Your Game Idea at the Rezzed sessions and discovered some new and exciting games at the various indie sections. What, though, have been the highlights? Here's a little selection of what's made this year's EGX special. Virtual reality headsets may still be months (or years) away from being fixtures in your home, but the current crop of headsets were here at EGX 2015: PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. VR has been around a while, but the brief moments of wonder it brings have not dispelled wider doubts about the technology's mass-market appeal.
Enter the Vive's suite of demos that allow you to explore an array of virtual spaces. Inside a booth not much bigger than five metres square you can don a headset and find yourself in another place. In your hands are the controllers you're physically holding, now dotted with options to navigate the world around you. The sensation of seeing the tools for manipulating the environment combined with the freedom to roam around the space and use them is immediate.
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