Five ways to set up VR in your home, mess-free

01 Go portable If you want to dive into VR but don’t like the idea of a huge gaming PC in your living room/ future virtual play area, there’s an easy, if expensive, solution. VR-ready gaming laptops come with Nvidia’s latest series of graphics cards, letting you play and pack up when you’re done. The ultra-thin Razer Blade (£1,799, razerzone.com) comes with a GTX 1060 as standard and ate Oculus Rift’s Robo Recall for breakfast in our test. 02 Hide those base stations Thankfully, Vive’s tracking devices look a bit like miniature speakers and blend in well to most rooms. Wall mounting isn’t to everyone’s taste so hide them on the top of bookcases or cabinets and feed the wires down the back. Subtle. 03 Take over the spare room Go on, you know you want to. Pair up the HTC Vive or Oculus Rift with a full room in your house and go to town. For a richer Rift experience, pick up an additional sensor for £59 and position it behind you for full 360° action. Just don’t forget you’re attached to a PC. Speaking of which… 04 Go big and stay home Once you’ve decided on a permanent space for VR, it’s time to pick up a PC, and there’s no need to just buy the first ugly black box you see with the right graphics card. Alienware’s Aurora range is attractive, liquid cooled, and you can future-proof yourself up to an Nvidia GTX 1080. 05 Get a head And finally, if PS VR is your experience of choice, there’s no need to just abandon your headset in a pile next to the TV. For a reasonable £ 29.99 you can pick up a head-shaped stand with a chrome-finished base and cable tidy. Definitely not creepy at all.