Was I right this? I can feel it burning into my scalp. I'm not so bad to pull the

headset off. But I know exactly what will happen. I don't think I could survive that again.

My first caught wind of the Oculus Rift. Back when it was still just a Kickstarter campaign,

my mind was blown. I dreamed as a kid of being able to step into my favorite video games.

I daydreamed about swinging the master sword with my own hands. I visualized myself as

a bored god making sure my sims needs were met making their lives miserable. The idea

of being inside the world of the game sounds so impossible. Yet under two decades later,

we are on the cusp of actual tangible VR. Some people doubt it, called it fake VR, compared

it to the failure of Nintendo's virtual boy headset. Some folks wouldn't even be happy

until we got a suitor online level of virtual reality. But it was... I was satisfied. Simply

with sight sound and the ability to move my arms and interact with the world, and joyful

to my own. Years later, VR has come a long way. We have developers working on pixel-perfect

limb movement, leg trackers. 360 degree treadmills, people are doing everything they can to make

the VR experience even more real. They have no idea that it's all pointless. Once you

go too far down the rabbit hole, you get stuck in hell. It all started when I attended

a small VR expo in Chicago. With the promise of new yet to be released prototype headsets

available to demo, I was guaranteed to attend. I was a VR nut now, so there was no missing

something like this. The expo was thrilling. There was a new headset from a lesser known

Chinese phone company that had an insanely high resolution. The demo game looked nearly

real. Do you need a $3,000 gaming PC to run it? At least it speeds that won't make

you nauseous. Even the desktop they hooked up to the headset was struggling to meet the

60 frames per second. Then... my personal favorite... was the headset that focused on field

...