{"id":88469,"date":"2016-04-07T11:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T09:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=88469"},"modified":"2016-04-07T11:32:16","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T09:32:16","slug":"pewdiepie-plays-with-htcs-vive-vr-headset-hilarity-ensues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/88469-pewdiepie-plays-with-htcs-vive-vr-headset-hilarity-ensues","title":{"rendered":"PewDiePie plays with HTC&#8217;s Vive VR headset, hilarity ensues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/78296-pewdiepie-and-the-hate-he-gets-for-earning-7-r87-million.html\" target=\"_blank\">PewdiePie<\/a> is one of the biggest YouTube stars in the world. His Let&#8217;s Play videos rack up millions of views, largely thanks to his bizarre commentary during said playtime, but he now has a new challenge to tackle: virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish YouTuber\u00a0was one of the first people to try out HTC&#8217;s Vive headset, which is set to be a rival to the Oculus Rift.<\/p>\n<p>Playing a VR game called <em>Budget Cuts<\/em>, PewDiePie is tasked with sneaking though a high-security compound, solving puzzles, and killing some robot guards in the process. Spoiler: he manages to do it, but not without some PewDiePie shenanigans and distractions along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9plfmbiQ57w?rel=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article\u00a0originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/games\/pewdiepie-tries-out-the-htc-vive-vr-headset-hilarity-ensues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>More gaming news<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Ubisoft to permanently ban cheaters in The Division\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88443-ubisoft-to-permanently-ban-cheaters-in-the-division.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Ubisoft to permanently ban cheaters in The Division<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to Epic broadband for gamers: 400Mbps fibre for R599\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/87892-epic-broadband-for-gamers-400mbps-fibre-for-r599.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Epic broadband for gamers: 400Mbps fibre for R599<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Permalink to DOOM Open Beta launches this month\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88427-doom-open-beta-launches-this-month.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">DOOM Open Beta launches this month<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube gamer Pewdiepie puts virtual reality to the test&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":78298,"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":[9],"tags":[31,17853,13341,14676,6050,17630,6477],"class_list":["post-88469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-budget-cuts","tag-htc-vive","tag-pewdiepie","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vive","tag-vr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88469","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88473,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88469\/revisions\/88473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}