The VR Experience

Last year when I went full blast into adventure and networking mode, I had a lot of fun because I was in my yes era. I said yes and signed up for everything and anything I could find my hands on: volunteering, youth meetups, training, you name it. During this time, I happened to have signed up for this fun tech thing that was happening around, which I count as one of the most futuristic and fun tech things I’ve experienced over the past year. This is what I’m going to be talking about in this post.

Virtual Reality

I wrote this post about Apple’s Vision Pro last year, and while it’s too pricey for me to own, I was fortunate enough to have an experience close to it at HOPin Academy around the same time. I found out about HOPin Academy last year, and it’s become my favorite place ever in Tamale because of the plethora of both fun and useful activities and events they host. The particular event I’m talking about was themed the VR Experience.

If you didn’t know what Virtual Reality is, it’s a new tech that allows you to enter into a simulated world and gives you a very close-to-reality experience of it. So you see things like you’re there, you’re able to walk around, and in some cases, you’re even able to touch stuff, but only in the virtual world. If you’ve seen movies like Ready Player One, you’ve seen VR in action.

The VR Experience

I don’t quite remember the headset we used, but that thing did quite an amazing job. It came with a hand-controlled joystick that allows you to control hand actions like picking items up and pointing at things. Lemme tell you, the moment I put the headset on, I began to question my reality. Am I a real human being? Is this a dream? Is this actually my reality, or is this another one of those dreams that feel too realistic? I guess that’s how you know the hype about VR is legit.

The experience was divided into a variety of gaming sessions. If my memory serves right, I believe there was Minetest, some adaptation of Chicken Invaders, and this crawling-in-a-tunnel game. The last one was by far the wildest game I’ve ever played because of how realistically scary it was. So basically, you’re being chased by a bear in this tunnel, and you’re crawling to escape it.

I can’t imagine what my life would look like if I had one of these. Instead of sitting on the water closet quietly pondering my life, I would be doing my number twos on top of Mount Everest or in Antarctica. You remember that “The Floor is Lava” game we used to play as kids, where we pretended a volcano erupted and the entire floor was molten lava? That would’ve become more realistic. Learning Biology would’ve become more fun for my students because I for sure would’ve simulated a lot of their learning. So if I could have one smart gadget, it would be a VR headset without a doubt!

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