Virtual Reality Goggles – Digital Video Eyewear

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1. diogenese19348
   Posted March 16, 2011 at 8:23 am | Permalink

   I saw one thing that brought total immersion games closer to reality. It's called the VirtuaSphere, your in a giant hamster ball that's stuck in the floor with wheels around it. You actually have to physically run around in the game. You are wearing a visor to see what's going on, and their are speakers all around the inside of the cage giving true 3d sound. You also have a hand held fun control, it looked really cool. It's ironic because in order to play their demo game well, you really had to be in shape or else you'd get too tired.

2. Cabin Fever
   Posted January 13, 2012 at 4:40 pm | Permalink

   Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes
   The choice for high-school graduates in 2154: to live on the dole or become colonists. Lisse and her friends are bright, caring young people, but there are no jobs. Thrown together by a computer, they forge a fortress from an abandoned warehouse and learn to live with one another, avoiding the streets' drugs and hedonism. Suddenly, there comes an invitation to the Game: shared computer-induced experiences in a wild, virgin wilderness. Always, when injury threatens, the computer pulls them back–until the last time, when they discover that they have actually emigrated to another part of the galaxy. Using their individual and group skills, they start to conquer the new planet, ultimately meeting and intermarrying with other groups of colonists…