I Put on the New Oculus Rift Headset. This Is What I Saw

There's an hour-long line to get into a booth in the South Hall of this year's Consumer Electronics Show, and for good reason. Oculus, which Facebook bought in March for $2 billion, was demonstrating its latest virtual reality prototype headset, dubbed Crescent Bay.

This newest version of the Rift VR headset is indeed astonishing. You strap on a pair of goggles and are transported to a series of different settings, one of which includes a lumbering, slobbering T-Rex. In another, the wearer materializes on a ledge, high above a futuristic city. As I stood on that imaginary perch and looked at the ground far below, I felt actual, heart-palpitating fear.