You land in pods on a one-kilometer map in Population: One.
You land in pods on a one-kilometer map in Population: One.
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Population: One hands-on — Vertical combat in VR results in tough tradeoffs

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

BigBox VR’s Population: One is a virtual reality game that breaks new ground as a battle royale first-person shooter. I played the game in a preview session on the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset.

While I found it to be fun, I got a bit seasick from the motion, which isn’t for the faint of heart. VR games always carry some risk as roughly half the population can get motion sickness while playing them. The developers have taken care to craft it in a way to minimize that wooziness, but you can only do so much in an action game in VR.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.