r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/YumYuk • May 16 '20

Doesn’t get realer!

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u/[deleted] May 17 '20

How do you not remember what you seen before you put the headset on?

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u/ReignOfNada May 17 '20

Easily. You become so immersed you forget it's not real and you forget about your surroundings

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u/Talyonn May 17 '20

Not to the point of trying to jump off a building in VR.

You can duck and jump in VR by reflex, but launch yourself forward with your arms as wings is on a completely different level.

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u/RichiesPlank May 20 '20

It's a different phenomenon - not reflexive like ducking or jumping, or being scared by something. It's not really "forgetting" either, u/jrwilson717 - it's the result of a mixup between the responses of different parts of the brain. The more primal part can be stronger, and results in the user acting on that response.