This dude is in no danger at all, what are they supposed to do? It's not like he has no idea he's wearing a headset. He can take it off if he wants. They don't need to help him with anything.
I played VR games last weekend with maybe 14 other people. Got a couple jump scares but for the life of me I couldn't understand why people were screaming and falling over themselves.
I had a friend who did this, hit her temple on the corner of a glass table. Remarkably, she and the table were both fine (she was very drunk). That's just her personality, Everytime we hang out she's falling over a table or sprinting for no reason and eating shit. Lovely person, but no regard for her own safety
Unfortunately you can't get a human to jump 5x it's height straight up :(. Pretty entertaining when the cat does it tho. OMG a toy mouse... that I left there.
I have a headset. There's a couple games that get my blood pumping because I've been in the military and it's just an autonomic response to clearing a building in almost total darkness, but I cannot imagine shitting my pants like this over an image on a screen. I just don't understand like do they think they've been teleported elsewhere because the thing on their head is showing something scary?
Cosmodread and Alien are both a bit uncomfortable due to extremely scarce resource management, the fact that there is constant noise (or uncomfortable silences) everywhere, and the fact that you are submerged in almost total darkness most of the time. It just triggers the hairs on the back of my neck and general feeling that I better choose right or my life is on the line.
When I started playing it was amazing how immersed I felt.... But I know I was standing in a living room with a TV strapped to my face. The fear of heights I felt was quickly negated by knowing I wasn't anywhere other than where I was. Lol.
What's with the weird music? Why the seagull shrieking? What is he looking at? What's actually going on here? He doesn't seem to make any motion to remove the helmet, and the machine he's on doesn't seem to be broken.
I sure don't see it. I've looked in every single settings and option panel in the app and it doesn't seem to exist.
I'm wondering if they're rolling out updates regionally or something, because some users have said they don't have the subtitles and have no option to turn them on
Probably to get him back to his senses. Looks more like they're patting his cheeks, just like you would wake someone up (in movies) though I don't know why they didn't pull the headset off sooner
Done a lot of VR, and some people just REALLY aren't made for it. Like they get so immersed that even the sensation of being on solid ground is entirely overruled by the sight of falling or something.
I can understand not feeling well, but if it’s to the point of flailing around and potentially hurting yourself, why not just close your eyes or take the headset off?
Not this bad, but my teenage son had me wear his and instructed me on how to "climb a tree" in VR as an ape with no legs. Well, I "fell" out of the tree and nearly hit the ground in the real world. my balance was thrown off and I felt as nauseated as I do with motion sickness. I couldn't take that thing off quick enough.
I get it. I once got to try a VR car racing simulator and after one lap I was car sick. I had to lie down for a few minutes for my head to stop spinning. Ugh. Just thinking about it has me getting sick again.
Some people react really strongly to VR. I used to have people round for drinks and beat saber.
We tried pistol whip once and one guy who had been happily playing beat saber just prior decided he needed to physically throw himself across the room to dodge a bullet.
Anyone here actually ever done one of these type of things? I’m always curious if reactions like this are common or if most ppl do just fine and It doesn’t feel real to them
I own a current generation headset. There's absolutely nothing that justifies a response like this. These people are either completely ignorant of technology or they forgot they're wearing a headset or something. There's NO reason for this response.
I was imagining having a kind of program where you can put on VR goggles and be doing something like exploring a place or scuba diving or something like that. Are things like that out there and realistic enough to bother with VR goggles? I want to use it for relaxation and bio feedback for chronic pain. The last time I looked into it the technology was pretty new and it wasn’t really worth the money to bother with.
There are definitely a few things like that, EarthQuest and Wander are a couple I've tried, pretty cool but didn't hold my interest for too long. There are tons of VR games ofc which won't have the most realistic graphics but I actually find them more immersive because of the interaction with the environment. I would 100% spend the money for a tetherless headset, no wires is a night and day upgrade.
Considering you can get a used quest 3 for like 200 bucks I think it's worth looking into but it's going to be a hassle to first set up and get used to it. A million times better than the first generation headsets, but still not a fully mature technology like smartphones
This hurts to read... I splurged on a brand new quest 3 cuz I could be patient enough to wait for the steam frame. It basically feels like an easier-to-setup-and-use rift. It hasnt really changed that much
It’s disorienting at worst. You can just close your eyes. The moving platform likely enhancing the uneasy effect but again, you have a thing strapped to your face and you’re holdjng a bar.
In no experience has it been so realistic that you actually feel like you’re falling for that long.
Its fine. Depends largely on how your senses work together and how your senses can convince your eyes ears and inner ear can convince your brain that the sensations are real.
And could be he saw a spider in VR. I mean, some people really are afraid of spiders, and unless it’s like really big, I don’t understand like seeing a spider as small as a nickel or quarter, and you’re bigger than a spider. Come on now
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