If you’re an idiot in PlayStation VR, you’re an idiot in real life
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Above: Headmaster for the PlayStation VR.
Image Credit: Frame Interactive
In the 1999 sci-fi action film The Matrix, the wise mentor Mopheus explains to the hero Neo that if you die in the film’s simulated world, you also die in real life. It turns out that rule doesn’t carry over to Sony’s PlayStation VR, but that doesn’t mean you’re invulnerable in virtual reality — especially if you’re a dummy like me.
I might have pulled a neck muscle because of PlayStation VR.
To be fair to Sony’s $500 head-mounted display, which launches October 13 for PS4, I likely injured myself because of the way I was using PSVR. The device will debut Thursday with a number of games, and a number of them have you move your head as part of their controls. Rez Infinite, SuperHyperCube, and others involve quite a lot of head bobbing and tilting. For me, however, it was the humorous soccer-training simulator Headmaster that I think really tweaked my tendons.
Headmaster puts you in the role of a soccer star who needs to do some work to improve their head-butting skills. Naturally, that means your coach sent you to the Football Improvement Center, which likes to remind its guests that it isn’t a prison.
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Source: Venturebeat