{"id":111035,"date":"2016-11-21T10:26:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T08:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=111035"},"modified":"2016-11-21T10:27:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T08:27:24","slug":"one-gaming-gadget-has-made-it-into-times-best-inventions-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/111035-one-gaming-gadget-has-made-it-into-times-best-inventions-of-2016","title":{"rendered":"One gaming gadget has made it into TIME&#8217;s best inventions of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TIME magazine has published its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4572079\/best-inventions-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">annual list<\/a><\/strong> of the 25 best inventions of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>While there are some truly incredible inventions (my personal favourites being &#8220;<strong>Soccer fields that fit anywhere<\/strong>&#8221; and <strong>The Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato<\/strong>), one piece of gaming tech has also made the cut.<\/p>\n<p>The PlayStation VR has been deemed to be the &#8220;headset leading a Virtual Revolution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In order to access the most cutting-edge virtual reality, people typically have to shell out thousands of dollars\u2014not just for a headset (like the $800 HTC Vive), but for a computer that\u2019s powerful enough to support it.<\/p>\n<p>Sony\u2019s PlayStation VR, by contrast, is designed to work with a console that millions of people already own: the PlayStation 4.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can check out the full list of inventions <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4572079\/best-inventions-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you think there are more worthy gaming entrants for best invention of 2016? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to The Golden Joystick 2016 winners have been announced\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/111019-the-golden-joystick-2016-winners-have-been-announced.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Golden Joystick 2016 winners have been announced<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the gaming gadget TIME Magazine thinks is one of the 25 best inventions this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":111037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[31,23305,16735,7787],"class_list":["post-111035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-invention","tag-ps-vr","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111041,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111035\/revisions\/111041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}