A VR Game That Laughs In The Face Of VR
In Virtual-Virtual Reality, a satirical Google Daydream VR game released today, a melting slab of butter orders you to smear toast on his unctuous body. When he demands more toast, 32 toasters appear. Toast is burning, popping out onto the floor. The butter is unhappy; he yells at you to “cover his butter body,” but it’s impossible to rub all of the toast on him in time.
“This was only a modicum of indulgence,” butter later writes in his three-star review of your services. “The attendant clearly displayed human deficiency in coordination competence.”
It’s a game with a lot of layers. The deeper in you go, the more impossible tasks you’re given; and the more “immersed” you get in V-VR ’s virtual service tasks, the more your ratings drop. You feel alienated by the gap between what services you can provide and what’s being asked of you, and, consequently, from the VR technology. That’s when you’re contacted by a human labor union—fitting for when you miss human reality most.
V-VR nails its mockery of corporate VR and the “immersion” buzzword so well that the only medium capable of conveying its many themes is VR itself.
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