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What someone in VR looks like when legit SHOOK.
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PulseONE
Member
^ Yep, it left this woman in a fetal position. Most of the staffers had a similar reaction. Real fear, ladies and gentlemen.
Hell, I admit I've jumped a few times playing Holopoint. Having the warriors walk up behind you without you noticing can momentarily freak you the fuck out when you turn around and they're about to thrust a sword in your chest.
The doubters will understand one day when they try it for themselves.
It's like...I WANT to try horror in VR, but I just know it'll kill me.
Such conflict
Weltall Zero
Member
Amazing that there's still people literally thinking VR is the same as plain old videogames and that she has to be faking it because there's no real danger. Do you go to amusement parks and tell all the people in the rollercoasters they're faking their screams because there is no real danger?
In before moving the goalposts to "but rollercoasters make you feel the acceleration".
In before moving the goalposts to "but rollercoasters make you feel the acceleration".
You don't even need a horror game to get this kind of reaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caTHoVNClFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caTHoVNClFs
I thought the whale was gonna eat me
Dreams-Visions
Member
I think...I'm not sure I want to try it alone. I think part of the reason some of these people even make it through the demo is because they have people and pets around them to sort of ground them, constantly reminding them that they're just in a game. You can see how the constant conversation in the first 2 videos keeps the players from getting *too* immersed.
If you're just at home alone...if you let yourself really get into it...it might be hard to get through that first playthrough (eg. woman in OP). By all accounts, Brookhaven is a much smoother experience the second or 3rd time through. That first time through is a real experience, though. If I do it, it will be when none of my friends are over. Paranormal Activity...dunno if I'd ever do that to myself.
And Alien Isolation....oooooh boy....
Dreams-Visions
Member
that's not even funny. stop.
I wouldn't underestimate how your senses can take control in some VR experiences. I'm not someone who generally gets scared or jumpy in games, but 'Luminous Abyss' demo in 'theBlu' made me feel really, really uneasy. I had to originally try it without sound because it was just so uncomfortable.
Dreams-Visions
Member
If that glowy fish in the deep sea module had tried to come at me I might have lost my shit. I was preparing to punch him just in case.
All this just because I didn't go "aw wew so scurry haha
She's spinning in a circle with a headset and headphones shooting at crappy looking 3D models. I've done that crap in VR already. I don't think that crap is all that scary. WHy do you care so much? I'm not bloody denying your purchase. I'm not pointing at the Vive you've had for a week and saying "YOU WASTED YOUR MONEY". Just deal. You go have fun with your Vive. I'll sit here and think she wasn't as scared as she's making herself look. You still have your Vive. It's all ok.
There goes another one.. This thread is pulling people into my ignore list like flies to shit.
Yeah, when I saw that fish I hoped that that 3rd demo was not a dark one in every aspect.
Iorv3th
Member
I wonder how different the effects would be on someone that plays a lot of games to someone that never games. Like I would imagine my mom pissing her pants in this.
Also them faking it because you didn't find it scary? Different people find different things scary. Like horror movies when some people are like "that was lame no scary at all" and others can't sleep.
The real fear is motion sickness and having someone close to you lose their lunch and want to share it with you.
Also them faking it because you didn't find it scary? Different people find different things scary. Like horror movies when some people are like "that was lame no scary at all" and others can't sleep.
The real fear is motion sickness and having someone close to you lose their lunch and want to share it with you.
Dreams-Visions
Member
FWIW, I've only seen reports of people being left *feeling like shit*. As opposed to actually blowing chunks. But yea, fuck those games that fail to design to avoid motion sickness.
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
Preeeeeeety much.
speedomodel
Member
How does that even look like fun...?
Dreams-Visions
Member
Put on a VR headset and find out.
Some things can't be appreciated by watching them on a 2D screen. VR is one of those things. The best you can do is watch the reactions of the participants to get a feel for what it's like. "Fun", of course, is subjective by nature. I personally don't enjoy horror games or movies in general, but those that do are finding a great experience in this one. Or, certainly an intense one.
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
It's pretty funny when you look back on the Wii & Kinect years and how many people bitched about having to get up and move to play videogames, and now those same people are doing just that with a VR headet.
Yeah, exactly the same people.
houroftower
Member
Would not be surprised if VR leads to PTSD-like symptoms in people.
Motion sickness is pretty much eliminated for everyone in room scale with natural motion. The challenge is getting a comfortable approach for covering larger distances.
shira
Member
He's talking with someone + joking and laughing, DV plz
Ok let's look at flight or flight responses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response
Acceleration of heart and lung action
Paling or flushing, or alternating between both
Inhibition of stomach and upper-intestinal action to the point where digestion slows down or stops
General effect on the sphincters of the body
Constriction of blood vessels in many parts of the body
Liberation of metabolic energy sources (particularly fat and glycogen) for muscular action
Dilation of blood vessels for muscles
Inhibition of the lacrimal gland (responsible for tear production) and salivation
Dilation of pupil (mydriasis)
Relaxation of bladder
Inhibition of erection
Auditory exclusion (loss of hearing)
Tunnel vision (loss of peripheral vision)
Disinhibition of spinal reflexes
Shaking
- A lot of this stuff is internal or would require a device like HR monitor
- She's shaking and VR forces tunnel vision.
- She still seems to be very aware that the VR cords exist.
- Did she pee or poop herself. No.
- I can see her taking shorter faster breaths and of course screaming
She is having a mild reaction but she's actively making it worse by breathing faster and screaming.
So she has more blood in the muscles ready to run or fight (which she isn't using btw) and less oxygen from the breathing and screaming - overall less O2 to the brain leading to panic.
Is that a genuine fear reaction?
VR has actually been used to treat PTSD and other anxiety symptoms through exposure.
Probably not with this game, though.
Militant17
Member
I'm an ex soldier and i have many mates who are still in, many of these men have seen combat experience and most of them end up shitting themselves by the end of the demo. One of them didn't see the last monster coming at the end of wave 5, he was looking the wrong way and when he finally turned around it was just behind him and he dropped to the floor like a pile of crap screaming. It was hilarious. That demo didn't really scare me but I screamed like i was going to be murdered while taking my first look at The Visitor at 3 in the morning just a few nights ago. Woke up my wife and kid, it was pretty funny.
Those of you saying shes faking it or that it's not scary need to stop the posturing, it's pathetic. Im going to assume most of you haven't tried VR let alone this demo, because after my first few scary VR experiences (which really aren't meant to be THAT scary) i'm hesitant to go into something like paranormal activity VR because it looks like it could give me heart problems. lol
Those of you saying shes faking it or that it's not scary need to stop the posturing, it's pathetic. Im going to assume most of you haven't tried VR let alone this demo, because after my first few scary VR experiences (which really aren't meant to be THAT scary) i'm hesitant to go into something like paranormal activity VR because it looks like it could give me heart problems. lol
I've seen grown men do this with my own eyes, it's instinctual most people aren't built to deal with that type of fear and their reactions are involuntary for the most.
Once the first major horror game hits VR, several news reports of death by heart attack and stroke will bubble up, and the studio will have a PR disaster, and VR controversy will hit mainstream, with Fox News asking if we need a death machine like VR for our children, and then the popularity of the technology will change.
Yeah I remember being so shaken over that I was still really scared when I was doing the cooking demo. The portal demo was just legitimately terrifying.
It seemed like the people who were running it were quite used to it though, I'm not sure if with extended use you just naturally get accustomed to it and your mind understands it's not real or if they just aren't as jumpy as me.
Xander Crews
Member
Im surprised at anyone saying the reactions are fake. They seem absolutely genuine to me. Especially the girl in the OP.
People interpret things in different ways though so,*shrug*.
People interpret things in different ways though so,*shrug*.
PerezDeCorcho
Member
Some people will go so far to blindly shit on VR.
Jeronimo Jones
Member
Seriously. I was in my car on lunch break listening to a podcast, then saw this thread and started the video.
Cue the screaming woman on bluetooth--I'm glad nobody was around because it sounded like she was trying to fight her way out of the trunk or something.
irrotational
Member
This really made me laugh - post of the thread!
Militant's post seems on point as well.
I don't understand why people feel the need to categorically state that she's over-reacting - sure she might be but it's impossible to prove one way or the other. Meanwhile a lot of people are, rightly, trying to argue that it's very likely she IS that scared because they've experienced first hand how scary VR can be.
So what do the fear-deniers hope to achieve by making their point? Just expressing their view? making themselves feel superior that they would not be so scared?
They've gone to the effort to type something into a box on the internet...it always disturbs me when I have no idea WHY they've gone to that effort.
Neuromancer
Member
My teenage niece threw my Gear VR clear across the room when she tried it. My 40 year old sister did better and just yelled FUCK FUCK SHIT SHIT.
Horror in VR really is something special.
darkinstinct
...lacks reading comprehension.
It's a fake. You can tell by her reactions, if she was really scared even 10 % as much as she pretends to be she would've had the natural reaction to run away. Flight is the most basic instinct when you're scared to death, yet it never happens.
My wife screamed twice just doing the Vive tutorial where the ground opens up and then when the laser goes off. For some crazy reason she clicked on this demo but as soon as it loaded she said nope.
I didn't think it was too bad until my giant breed dog got in the room some how. I turned around right into him and a zombie in my face and lost it. I pushed off him and jumped back about five feet while shooting for my life before realizing wtf just happened. He was kind of pissed for a while.
Even with just the rift dk1 I had people throw the headset off in panic.
potatohead
Member
We need to ban this sick filth.
No more VR for anybody!
No more VR for anybody!
I think this might be the dumbest post in the thread. I can't tell if it's serious or not.
FalsettoVibe
Member
Weltall Zero
Member
That would actually be legitimate. It's much worse: "I know they're faking it even though I haven't tried VR because I'm so close minded I literally can't comprehend it could have this effect."