When the combined armies of Zorg are firing photon weapons at you, 5 kilograms doesn’t seem like much. Even the cables and straps that are a necessary part of MSI’s Backpack PC fade into the ...

Three PC makers have announced "backpack PCs" designed specifically for making high-end VR portable.

HP will make a major VR push in June, when it will start shipping its Omen X VR backpack PC.

That’s where HP’s Omen X backpack PC comes in. A fully functional PC that your strap to your back, the Omen X backpack gives you the ability to move freely while playing VR games without ...

Best known for its cooling technology, the company has taken its newly announced Magnus EN980 VR-ready gaming PC, fitted it out with a battery, and popped it in a backpack.

MSI's Backpack PC will let you VR anywhere. Aloysius Low/CNET MSI believes you should be able to immerse yourself in VR anywhere you are, and here at Computex in Taipei, the company's latest ...

The ‘VR One’ from MSI debuts at the Tokyo Game Show this week. The backpack provides tetherless VR gameplay powered by NVIDIA’s 10-series GPUs with a hot-swappable battery for extended VR ...

We do know the Backpack PC will be powered by a Core i7 processor and a GeForce GTX 980 graphics card, which should be enough to offer a very decent VR experience.

Kickstarter has a lot to answer for. Because of the crowd-funding site every fool thinks they’ve got the next million dollar idea. The backpack for your desktop PC tower is the latest ...

News Powerful gaming PC backpacks are becoming a thing as VR craze swells Don't like being tethered to a PC for VR? Tether the PC to you.

MSI claims to have solved these problems with its Backpack PC, a wonderfully garish system that packs a 6th-gen (Skylake) Core i7 Intel processor, Nvidia GTX 980 GPU, and a battery rated for up to ...

The backpack PC may not be the most comfortable solution to VR computing, but it would solve the vexing problems of limited range and tangles of cables that currently mar the virtual reality user ...