Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Earlier this month, Micro-Star International teased the VR One during the Tokyo Game Show gaming convention. It is a PC that customers wear on their back, enabling full freedom of movement when ...

Aloysius Low is a Senior Editor at CNET covering mobile and Asia. Based in Singapore, he loves playing Dota 2 when he can spare the time and is also the owner-minion of two adorable cats. MSI believes ...

Computex 2016-- MSI's aptly named Backpack PC enables portable VR experiences and removes that pesky cable from the floor. It may not be an exercise in practicality, but it is a bold glimpse into the ...

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 gaming ...

Remember the virtual reality backpack PC design MSI showed off at Computex just a few months ago? It's already obsolete. MSI has unveiled the finished product, the VR One, and it looks nothing like ...

Thanks to headsets like Google Cardboard and Gear VR, the virtual reality experience is already pretty portable. But on a smartphone, you’re only getting a watered-down version. That’s why MSI decided ...

MSI’s Backpack PC: how much will this weigh? Most first-person shooters place you in the role of a burly marine or adventurer, with a seemingly limitless backpack where you can stash heavy weaponry, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

MSI has announced that its cool backpack PC for VR gaming has now hit the market for gamers to purchase. The PC is called the MSI VR One and it is the most powerful backpack gaming PC on the market ...

We were first introduced to the MSI VR One earlier this year as the company’s way to offer a surefire way for fans of virtual reality to enjoy their experiences while not being completely tethered to ...