If there's one thing most first person shooter games fail to accurately portray, it's consequences. Want to leap over those sandbags, yelling a war cry with your guns blazing? Go nuts, but if you're playing an FPS in this $650,000 custom simulator, you'll pay for your reckless bravery, and it's going to hurt. A lot.

Add this to the list of things that somehow are going to need to fit inside my fantasy living room: Barco's 360 degree immersive flight training dome uses 13 laser-calibrated projectors to show you virtual bogeys inbound from up to 12 virtual clicks away, and then lets you virtually blow them out of the sky in seamless HD.

Proving that Sony really looked at the PS3 as a system that would evolve with the times, Sony is now internally testing a few PS3 games with that awesome 3D virtual reality headset we saw back at CES in January. Who's ready for VR's return?

In the last decade it seems that with every year we take another significant step closer toward realizing the amazing possibilities of a real world Star Trek holodeck. The latest iteration of the virtual world dynamic comes to us from Japan's Crescent Inc.