With Hivefest coming up and a lot of peeps out there purchasing their first VR headsets I figured I'd share some clips from a funny subreddit I stumbled on recently with the genius name "VRtoER".
To make it easier to view these clips as Reddit has their own storage now meaning you literally can't link or embed these videos without sending readers to the post which also loads all the comments, etc, I decided to just re-upload them to youtube and link to the Reddit sources and give them credit. I don't have ads up on my youtube or am affiliated with them - any ads you may see are youtube's meaning I don't profit off of the youtube views I may get from this, this is only done for convenience sake.
Immersion seems to be a big thing with VR, naturally you'd think that by giving up your sense of sight you still remember where your physical body is for longer than a couple minutes, or those shown in these clips would at least use their sense of hearing to keep them "down to earth" so to say - but for many of them this seems like an impossible task. I've been thinking about what causes this, I know some people are very good at getting immersed in movies, games and other entertainment that they hate it when others around them talk or disturb them because it breaks the immersion, but I really wonder if it's that alone or if it's people who aren't as technology savvy or used to gaming, etc, that may fall victim to the immersion shock of VR way harder than others who play games on a daily basis. Here are some of the videos that stood out that I wanted to include in this post. Learn from them before you break your neck at Hivefest!
Alright, starting off, maybe don't tell someone trying VR for the first time to "jump":
Credit to Reddit user u/Halleyelec
This leap of faith jumping seems to be popular in this plank on a skyskraper VR simulation as we see in this next video:
Credit to Reddit user u/coheedcollapse
This one seemed a bit more of a mild jump but the repercussions seem just as bad:
Credit to Reddit user u/CreativeBanshee
For this next one I don't even know what VR game she's playing but it must definitely be a good one for you to completely forget that you're not in a football field and have room to run around in:
Credit to Reddit user u/ZoomBeerd
Talking about Football, this guy forgot he's not playing Highschool Football right now:
Credit to Reddit user u/Krisza14
Now on to the most extreme jump I've seen so far, imagine how immersed you must be to just go full out like this guy does, the sense of freedom must've been intense until...:
There was one video that made it also clear that having kids around as you're VR'ing is not that safe, I decided not to include it due to the unknown damage caused but here's another one playing with fire. So make sure you don't have unaware children around you because your senses in VR are going to be just as handicapped as their unawareness:
Credit to Reddit user u/OneNessEye
This was a bit different and more fun for the people around you during VR, reminding you that not only are you unaware of the dimensions in the room you're in but also of what you may be reaching to for comfort or how you're reaching for it:
Credit to Reddit user u/Ch333t (I changed the title of the youtube vid myself)
Okay, to end it I decided to include this one, it is obviously staged but at this point if you place the VR in the wrong hands (head) it wouldn't surprise me if this is going to happen sooner or later:
Credit to Reddit user u/Robby_duck
Alright so, remember to stay safe when VR'ing so you don't end up in the ER and especially during HiveFest watch where you're walking in the real world!
