I didn’t expect, stepping in, that this 720-degree VR simulator would make me physically sick.
At a glance the Aorus VR simulator looks like a lot of similar rigs you’d find in janky arcades of your youth.
But I wasn’t ready for the game I was about to get strapped into, Redout.
Sitting in the rig, you have a VR headset and a pair of headphones on, before you’re handed a joystick and told to “hold on really tight.”
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Turns out, Redout is a pretty intense high-speed-racing game.
Nearly immediately, you’re flung through various race tracks that feature crazy twists, and at times cliff-hanging turns.
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And when I finally crossed the finish line, it was with some difficulty that I stepped off the simulator — and straight into the bathroom to throw up.
I did however, later return to the simulator to see how other people were getting on.
As it turns out, I was not the only one struggling with the simulator.
A Taiwanese girl in her 20s had stepped on and she was screaming so loudly that she had attracted quite a crowd at the Aorus booth at Computex, a technology show in Taiwan.
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Source: Mashable