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The ASUS ViVoPC X is a compact box designed for virtual reality
Right now, going all in on PC virtual reality means going big: You need a big space for room-scale VR; a big, powerful gaming PC; and a big wallet to buy it all with. ASUS wants to make one of those things smaller. Unfortunately, it's not the price. The new ASUS ViVoPC X is a compact gaming desktop that's powerful enough for virtual reality but still small enough to be moved in a pinch.
You don't need a ridiculous PC to run Oculus Rift anymore
Back when we reviewed the consumer-ready Oculus Rift in March, we found its minimum specs requiring an Intel Core i5 4590 (or equivalent) processor and an NVIDIA GTX 970 graphics card to be in line with a typical midrange gaming PC. Below that, a computer won't just fail to run VR smoothly: It'll drop frames and make you sick. But without changing any of the headset's hardware, Oculus has lowered the Rift's minimum spec to a Nvidia 960 graphics card and an intel i3-6100 or AMD FX4350 processor. That's all thanks to its new framerate-fixing tech, "asynchronous spacewarp," which they announced at today's Connect keynote.
