It looked like butchery, sort of - a knife cutting into dead flesh. My couch mate was watching something gruesome. I heard someone pop in and then leave, muttering something like, "That's messed up." Finally I got my screen in a comfortable spot, and I opened a browser and loaded up my favorite Tumblr. I immediately started tweaking my screen - a little further away, a little bigger, a little bit of curve, no wait I hate the curve. I popped into a nice luxurious apartment, sharing a couch with someone I'd never met. You see their floating avatar, you see their screen, and you feel "present" with them. What's crazy is you can see other people's desktops, as well. It's pitched as a "Virtual Reality LAN party." You co-occupy a virtual scene with up to three other people, and a version of your computer desktop floats in front of you, available to play games on or do whatever. My friend wanted to show me BigScreen, which is a blend of AltspaceVR and old-fashioned screen sharing. They have a better understanding of what I'm trying to feel when I put on a headset.īut I wasn't ready to feel this. Now my VR times are mediated by friends and co-workers, which is way better. It was gentle way to start an afternoon of VR.Ī lot of my VR experiences so far have been "piloted." I don't own a system, and for a long while I couldn't own a system, so typically a press representative, a game developer, or an engineer would hand me a headset and I'd experience whatever they wanted me to experience. They were fun, although not quite mind-melting. I hadn't seen all these tech demos before.
We started with Dreamscape, the official collection of short, passive VR experiences Oculus provides, which was great. It's nice it makes VR feel a little more "social" and a little less "man cave." He has a nice apartment, and instead of hiding the Oculus away in a bedroom, he's devised a setup where you can sit at the kitchen table in his brightly lit living room. I went over to a friend's house the other day to have some quality time in his Oculus Rift.
Warning: this post includes graphic content.
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