Blunt VR game talk with controller-level detail.
Virtual Boys follows Chris and Ryan through the current VR game landscape, from headset rollouts to ports and horror deep cuts. The tone is informal, technical, and review-minded, with frequent live-show chaos baked into the rhythm.
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Virtual Boys is a VR gaming conversation show centered on the messy, specific reality of playing, reviewing, and following virtual reality games. Chris and Ryan talk like people who have spent years inside the hardware cycle. Episodes often begin with technical hiccups, live-chat references, holiday catch-ups, or jokes about the show barely holding together. Then the discussion settles into close, practical VR criticism. The show covers upcoming releases, Quest ports, PSVR2 news, older picks, sequels, horror games, franchise adaptations, early access projects, and the awkward business of reviewing games before major patches land. Its judgments are rarely abstract. A game gets weighed by controls, tracking, combat feel, visual payoff, content depth, price, player base, and whether the best moments are worth the dull stretches between them. Behemoth becomes a conversation about flagship expectations and pre-patch review pressure. Hard Bullet becomes a case study in long-running early access and sandbox violence. Lies Beneath gets remembered as a standout Quest-era horror title with graphic-novel style and real tension. First Person Tennis is discussed as an ungainly but credible sports sim. Cities VR is judged against the limits of VR city builders. The show also makes room for bigger industry arguments, especially when Victor Lucas joins a Batman Arkham Shadow episode and pushes the conversation toward exclusives, hardware ceilings, budgets, and fragmented media habits. Virtual Boys is not tidy. That is part of its identity. It feels live even when it is pre-recorded, with interruptions, tangents, mock irritation, and a recurring sense that the equipment might betray the episode at any moment. Under the joking is a serious investment in VR as a medium that needs better games, stronger support, and clearer reasons to own the hardware. It is best for listeners who already know the difference between a headset showcase and a game that holds up after the novelty wears off.
Made for: Virtual Boys is for VR players, headset owners, and game-review followers who want candid talk about what is actually worth playing. It especially suits listeners tracking Quest, PSVR2, PC VR, horror titles, ports, and major franchise experiments.
What sets it apart: The show mixes loose live-chat energy with unusually specific VR criticism, moving from jokes and glitches into detailed judgments about controls, patches, platform versions, and hardware strategy. It feels less like a product briefing and more like experienced players arguing through the medium in real time.
Ryan & Chris from 'The VR Grid' talk all things Virtual Reality including news, reviews and our thoughts on the VR industry!
The mic check glitches; Chris and Ryan make you weigh VR sword fights against pulse rifles.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose post-holiday VR catch-up ties improved tracking to Hard Bullet's physics-heavy chaos.
Virtual Boys comes back from the holiday break in its usual loose rhythm, moving from hosting fatigue and barbecue-on-demand chatter into VR games and what might matter in 2025.
A glitchy VR anniversary becomes a frank discussion of combat, taste, and what makes a game worth pushing through.
The 100th episode frames an end-of-year VR catch-up as a lived-in argument about why some games feel worth enduring. After a glitchy opening and a nod to three years and 100 episodes, the conversation settles into Behemoth's melee combat and Alien's xenomorph encounters.
Victor Lucas argues for a games business shaped around players who will not stay on one platform.
Victor Lucas returns for a grounded look at where game hardware and exclusivity seem to be heading. The clearest thread is his view that players already move across platforms, which means publishers have to meet them there.
New Zealand tech, told through its people.
VR gaming talk from inside the headset.
Immersive makers on how the work actually gets made.
Virtual Boys Episode 101 opens by saying 2025 looks stronger for VR because Aces of Thunder, Arkane Age, Hitman, and Zombie Army slipped out of 2024.
Virtual Boys Episode 100 is a 2024 VR wrap-up centered on Batman, Metro, Behemoth, and Alien, and the hosts say the show has run about three years.
Virtual Boys episode 96 is a Halloween VR horror roundup with Christopher Shug and Ryan Roulette sorting games into arcade horror, survival horror, haunted-house experiences, and multiplayer scares.
["Virtual Boys Episode 95 with Victor Lucas turns Batman Arkham Shadow into a test case for Quest 3 adoption.", "Chris and Ryan frame Victor as a 30-year gaming mainstay from Electric Playground and use his perspective to compare VR's pace with flat-screen releases.", "Victor says VR has been \"slow,\" praises Camouflaj's Arkham Shadow as a \"heat seeking missile,\" and says the game makes Quest 3 look unusually strong.", "The discussion widens into a blunt argument about PSVR2, Apple Vision Pro, Meta exclusives, wireless play, and why familiar franchises need to reach more headsets."]
Ryan and Chris discuss their early impressions of the Meta Quest 3S VR headset after an embargo lift.
Virtual Boys Episode 88 examines whether cheaper VR headsets make sense while reviewing Foglands, Tropico VR, Mixture, and Figmin.
Ryan and Chris return after an 8-month hiatus to discuss Virtual Reality news, reviews, and industry updates, with technical hiccups and banter.
Ryan and Chris discuss the rise of sequels in VR games as a sign of the industry's growth.
Ryan and Chris discuss PSVR2 news, a State of Play event, and a tennis VR game they've been playing.
Ryan and Chris discuss VR news, including a new Ghostbusters game and their recent VR gaming experiences.
Ryan and Chris discuss the dominance of Meta Quest in the VR industry, including its impact on Steam and developer success.
Chris and Ryan discuss their biggest VR disappointments, including the Nintendo Virtual Boy and other failed hardware and games.
Ryan and Chris catch up and discuss recent VR releases, including Tale of Onigoro for Quest headsets.