Test For Free If your PC is VR Ready With No Headset Required

Have you been sat there wondering if your PC has what it takes to be able to whisk you off to the world of Virtual Reality? Is your PC VR ready? It’s an expensive gamble to buy a headset and just find out the hard way, but not to worry Futuremarks’s on the horizon. Futuremark has recently released VRMark, their new and improved benchmarker for VR, complete with two tests that can be done on monitor or on a connected VR set so you can find out with ease if your rig cuts the mustard headset or without. And hey, guess what, there’s a free version! We couldn't help but let you know.

Featuring two rooms, imaginatively called the Blue Room and Orange Room (see if you can guess why from the video below) the orange tests to see if your computer can handle the recommended requirements for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, while the Blue Room cranks it up to 11 with all the bells and whistles turned on. Passing the Blue Room means that your rig can handle the highest settings at 60FPS on VR games out today.

With an easy to digest yay or nay to VR after each test and genuinely just a beautiful experience regardless, this benchmark is well worth a look. You can get the Free version which allows you to use the Orange Room, allowing you to test your rig without any of the hassle of actually having a headset as well as being able to enjoy the Orange Experience Mode that allows you to wander around for fun. While if you want entrance into the Blue Room, to really put your PC through it’s paces ,it currently cost $19.99, this version also comes with the Blue Experience mode as well as access to custom settings.