We’ve already heard plenty about the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset,
and while we youngsters are pretty amazed by the technology, nobody has
their mind blown more than the elderly, who could only dream about such
technology back in their younger days. Recently, a 90-year-old
grandmother ended up trying out the Oculus Rift for herself, and she was
quite amazed.
Imagimind Studio developer Paul Rivot ended up grabbing an Oculus
Rift in order to play around with it and develop some games, but he took
a break from that and decided to give his grandmother a little treat,
by strapping the Oculus Rift to her head in order to experience a bit of
virtual reality herself.
The video is quite entertaining to watch, and
we can’t imagine what’s going on inside of her head, knowing that she
never grew up with such technology as the Oculus Rift, let alone 3D
video games. She even gets to the point where she thought the images
being displayed were actual images taken on-location, when in fact it’s
all 3D-rendered on a computer.
Currently, the Oculus Rift is out in the wild for developers only at
this point, and there’s no announced release date for the device,
although the company has noted that it should arrive to the general
public before the 2014 holiday season. In the meantime, it’s videos like
this that only excite us even more.