Wheeeee! You’re riding a flying unicorn down a magic rainbow while kittens and cupcakes rain from the sky. It’s all so real.

Then, suddenly, everything goes black as you mindlessly take the final step in your living room to pull the cable from your virtual reality headset.

Bummer.

There’s a virtual elephant in the living room, and here it is: High-quality virtual reality is going to be literally held back by the need to tether to a console.

Last week’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles offered new ideas (and old) to solve the catastrophic VR tethering problem.

VR is here at last

The world of VR has been teasing fans for decades. In recent years, the busting out of real VR has always been a year or two away, they told us.

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