{"id":217795,"date":"2025-10-11T23:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217795\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T23:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T23:19:07","slug":"quest-3-stormtrooper-makes-new-york-comic-con-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/217795\/","title":{"rendered":"Quest 3 Stormtrooper Makes New York Comic Con Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cosplayer at the New York Comic Con integrated Quest 3 into their Stormtrooper outfit.<\/p>\n<p>A voice changer inside the helmet connects to a Bluetooth speaker at the hip for communications. I interviewed creator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/novaheadware?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NovaHeadware<\/a> as their VR Trooper in the drizzly air outside the conference on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>If you find it hard to hear the Trooper in the video below, I tend to think that might be part of the problem of dealing with the Empire when their minions bark orders through masks at citizens in a universe far, far away. (I argue they shoot so poorly because of misaligned passthrough VR)<\/p>\n<p>NovaHeadware caught my eye online with their Iron Man-like designs for helmets to go around VR headsets. You can check out some of those <a href=\"https:\/\/makerworld.com\/en\/crowdfunding\/78-mixed-reality-cyber-helmet-mk-8?ref=uploadvr.com\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cyber Helmet designs<\/a> online.<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cosplayer at the New York Comic Con integrated Quest 3 into their Stormtrooper outfit. A voice changer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[74,179,509,180],"class_list":["post-217795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-virtual-reality","tag-technology","tag-virtual-reality","tag-virtualreality","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}