The VR adventure

Sep 24

The story of Virtual Reality

By Isaac Strauss and Evan Strauss

Actual Reality. Most people don't really think of it that way, since it's just everything around us. But sometimes, when you choose to enter a parallel universe, things get a little crazy. Welcome to Virtual Reality.

It all started when we walked into Virtual Room. We were greeted by a worker and told we had to wait 10 minutes for the group before us to finish. So, we played with the Legos in the waiting area. When the others came out, they all looked super happy. Then the worker brought us to our respective rooms (which I call dimension portals). They were small, but in the other world, they feel big.

We put on our headsets and grabbed our controllers. The headsets were bulky and heavy, since they had built-in microphones, speakers, and adjustable straps. The controllers were small, with wrist straps, buttons and toggles on top, and a trigger on the back. We only needed the trigger to hold things.

Once we put on the headsets, we appeared in a blank room with a hologram computer. That was where we typed in our new reality names. And just like that, we were in virtual reality, able to see and hear each other clearly.a

Level 1: Base a futuristic, white-panelled room with a giant holographic display in the center and cabinets containing everything you need for this mission

Your mission is to collect all the information from team alpha and destroy any armor you find.

A pedestal rises from the ground with a pair of gloves on top.

Put on the gloves.

Pull out sliding storage.

Open the cabinets in the storage.

Put on the data cylinder you find in the cabinet.

Put on the timer for challenges you found in the cabinet.

Hold the data chip that was in the cabinet.

See access code on the data chip.

Type in access code on the locked cabinet.

Put on the helmet that was in the locked cabinet.

Listen to when to go from the hologram.

Type that in on your wrist-worn time machine.

Level 2: Medieval castle 1324 a medieval castle with a chest and gears near you and barrels on the other side of the giant pit

Open the chest.

Read scroll on the table to learn what to do.

Pick up the lever inside the chest.

Insert in gears on the floor.

Synchronized pulling of levers between all of the players.

Crossbow and arrows come down on a platform held up by chains.

Pick up the crossbow and arrows.

Shoot at the barrels across the way.

Pulley gets light enough because the barrels broke.

Cage comes down from the ceiling.

Open the cage.

Put on the data cylinder you found in the cage.

Destroy the piece of armor in the cage.

Look at when to go to at the bottom of the cage.

Type when to go to on your wrist-worn time machine.

Level 3: Moon 1969 A place on the moon with three chests 2 of which have rocks on top and the one that doesn't have rocks on top is screwed shut and you are next to a spaceship.

Throw rocks off chests.

Open one of the chests.

Pick up the screwdriver inside.

Open the other chest.

Pick up the battery inside.

Connect battery to screwdriver.

Unscrew the chest that is screwed shut.

Pick up the power cylinder inside.

Throw power cylinders to each other to match color.

Put power cylinders in spaceship.

Spaceship flies off leaving behind 2 chests.

Open chests that it left behind.

Destroy armor that was in the first chest.

Put on data cylinder that was in the other chest.

See time you are supposed to go to on the bottom of the chest with the data cylinder in it.

Type in on wrist-worn time machine.

Level 4: Egypt 203 A giant room with small statues, a symbol on the floor and 3 giant statues of Egyptian gods. At the top of some stairs there is a sarcophagus.

Slide the small statue onto the symbol.

Sticks suddenly appear.

Throw sticks to each other to make sure everyone has one.

Put a stick in the small statue.

Rotate statue to illuminate the giant statues of Egyptian gods.

Get teleported to the top of stairs.

Take apart the sarcophagus that is on top of the stairs.

The dead body that was inside the sarcophagus disappears.

Destroy armor that was inside the sarcophagus.

Put on data cylinder that was also inside the sarcophagus.

Get teleported to ??????.

Final level: 65 million years ago A mountainside with a bunch of rocks some flint and steel and a pile of sticks plus a bow and arrow, Across the way is a wall of vines.

Pick up the flint and steel.

Crack them against each other near the pile of sticks.

A fire is made.

Pick up your bow and arrows.

Light arrows on fire.

Shoot your flaming arrows at a wall of vines.

Wall of vines falls.

Dinosaurs come in through the broken wall.

Your fire gets extinguished by the roar from the t-rex.

Shoot at the dinosaurs.

One of the pterodactyls drops a helmet.

Destroy the helmet that the pterodactyl dropped.

Get teleported back to base.

Personal note:

Getting to do VR was amazing and we never thought we would ever do it, let alone in Paris! When we first got in we were amazed by the details of the scenery and how realistic everything looked (Not as much for the dinos). But it seems that dad did not think that because when the pterodactyl came out he threw his flint at one of them. One time we were throwing sticks in Egypt and in real life Isaac smashed his hand into the wall since he tried to throw the stick.