E3 2018 expo highlights virtual reality’s never-ending challenge: to get real

Todd Stoudnor tries his hand on Bethesda VR one the opening day of Gaming show E3 2018 on Tuesday morning June 12, 2018 at Los Angeles Convention Center.(Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times/TNS)

LOS ANGELES: When Elizabeth Ching took off her headset, she was panting. 

She had just finished playing a new virtual reality boxing game called Creed: Rise to Glory at E3, the nation's biggest videogame convention, and she'd knocked her computer opponent out cold. With the exception of a few boxing classes she'd taken, this was the closest Ching had come to fighting in a boxing match.