- Hi. For the next week, I'm
gonna be eating, sleeping, working, and playing in virtual reality. Starting now. - [Narrator] So, you may have
heard about virtual reality. It sort of looks like a giant toaster strapped to your head right now, but I truly believe this technology will change everything
about the way we operate. So, I'm inquiring if
one can remain healthy, make new friends, be productive, and have fun in the matrix. Here's how I'll be doing it. I'll shower like this, work like this, exercise like this, and sleep like this. Virtual reality is like
standing in your living room and going to a new place. Pass-through is being in virtual reality, but seeing a low-quality
image of your room. I can take five seconds
to switch headsets. I've also blacked out all my windows so I can't see day or night pass. This is quite possibly the
dumbest thing I've ever done, but welcome to a week in the future. (faint voices, tense music) Day 1 has been trying to
get used to my new schedule in virtual reality. Even the simple act of
grabbing my coffee on the desk is a little bit difficult. - Oh, shoot, dang it! Just spilled coffee. - [Narrator] And after
keeping it under wraps for many weeks, I finally announced my experiment. And it was received with
criticism and encouragement. But having a 24/7 livestream, I'm not used to having
eyes on me all the time. But what I found was solitude. Specifically, in the African savanna. - [Instructional Voice]
This headset allows anyone to create their own environment. If one is feeling
stressed, they can load it to a natural environment
for 10 minutes and relax. If one is feeling energetic,
the can expel energy in a fitness game. These are like the new rules to this reality I've thrown myself in. Everything is in the headset. (sci-fi noises, faint voices, tense music) - [Narrator] So sleeping
last night was actually a lot more comfortable
than I thought it would be. I loaded up a Netflix
app in the Oculus Go, and I could basically
create a virtual theater as I drifted off to sleep. And now I'm pretty much just
continuing what I normally do: working out, then eating breakfast and going to work. - Think we, uh, just hit
the hour, the 20-hour mark. Um. KGgamer64 says "Love
what you're doing here, but don't you think the
challenge would be more effective if you couldn't see the real world?" In the future, I believe
virtual and augmented reality will be one and the same, like, you'll have a pair of very
compact glasses, like, uh, Warby Parker glasses, and you'll
just be able to double tap and go into virtual reality. And you'll be able to double tap and overlay augmented
reality onto your reality. So what I'm attempting to
do here is just kind of simulate what I believe the
future of VR and AR will be. (rhythmic robotic music) - [Diary] So today I'm attempting to be a little more social. I'm jumping into an app
called Altspace, which is like a social media platform in VR. So people can create events
for basically anything. There's movie screenings, concerts, and one that piques my
interest is a meditation circle that happens every Thursday and Monday. - [Instructor] ...and
taking 3 deep breaths. I instruct to take your
breaths in through your nose and out through your mouth. I want you to picture that
you're floating safely above the Earth at about the distance of the International Space Station. And you can see Earth
floating down below you. - [Instructor] Notice
how fragile it looks. Notice that you can't see
any borders or boundaries. - [Diary] So there's
something really interesting about being mindful in a
room full of other people that are across the world. I mean, this technology
gives someone the chance to take a break from work for 15 minutes or join a party and watch a SpaceX launch, which is what I did today. (crowd cheering) - [Narrator] That's cool. (spacey techno music) (clicking and faint voices) - [Diary] So I almost feel like I'm in my own 500-square-foot spaceship. And I'm really missing Earth. I'm missing nature. And now I want to explore where
I can go in this spaceship. So some friends of mine are
showing me some different worlds in a game called VRCHAT. One minute you can be flying across space, and the next you can be
talking about the implications of technology while
driving through a train. - In terms of body, like
physical, I'm feeling fine. I was worried about my eyes yesterday, cause I was feeling a slight burning. But, um, after last night
and sleeping, there's no, there's no burning anymore, which is nice. - [Diary] So the monotony
is kinda getting to me. I've been driving a train
for the past few hours. There's also a movie screening tonight, which should be fun. - [Male In Film] Just John. - [Female In Film] Right. John. - [Diary] Time, at this
point, feels like a concept, only a number. Not seeing the sun set or rise, I've taken to games like
Skyrim to experience the night. Also, my virtual fish needs food. (faint jumbled voices) - [Narrator] I had a
restful sleep last night and woke up much later today. But I pulled out a small rowing machine, loaded up a beach environment,
and rowed my thoughts away. I then calmed my mind
in the hills of China and jumped into a virtual
office to answer emails while the sun rose above the horizon. - [Diary] The ability
for VR to have the user at one point battling a
dragon, and at the next experiencing a simulation of blindness... - [Old Man] Sitting in the
park with the children, I hear the footsteps of
people walking past me, a panorama of music and information. - [Child] Daddy! Daddy! - [Narrator] VR is stepping
into the shoes of someone else or driving a spaceship
and talking with friends. - [Diary] So, there are these
two developers in California that have created a robot that
lives in their living room. - [Narrator] This is the most meta thing I've ever experienced. (birds chirping) - [Narrator] I'm experiencing
frequent de ja vus. I'm experiencing frequent de ja vus. It's essentially like I've,
uh, momentary recognition, momentary points where I feel
like I've done here before. It's all very strange, it's
all very, uh, jumbled together. - [Instructor] Alec is using
whole ones too. He has access to white-- - [Diary] I've found it's
very easy to find your tribe, to make friends, to
communicate with others through the virtual landscape. Or it's no longer
through a digital window, no longer through a screen or a phone, but actually being there with them. And that, to me, is what VR is: Connection. (jumbled distant voices) - [Diary] I now dream in virtual reality. I go through storylines and
see VR menus and situations. I then wake up, still inside the headset. It's a very strange experience. - And what's really
interesting about VR to me is that this is a completely
new medium for expression. You know, before we would have a canvas, and we could have amazing
painters: Picasso, uh, Dali. And now we have amazing
artists that are now able to paint their dreams, paint
their ideas into a 3D world. - [Diary] But hold up.
Before one can create, they must get inspiration. And being in a headset,
being bound to the digital, I have found no inspiration to create. So I'm going home. To mother Earth. (whooshing noise) Google Earth VR is one of
the most amazing experiences in virtual reality. But short of actually
smelling the air around me, I felt like I was standing outside. (optimistic orchestral music,
people chatting faintly) - [Narrator] Imagine
how much more compelling learning will be when
we have tools like this for students across the world. (happy instrumental) - [Diary] The future is bright. - [Instructor] You lose
the ability to show people exactly what you want them to see, but you allow them to be within the world, and that's- that's really
different than any other medium that we've had before. It is, it is a medium of human experience. - [Eerie Voice] You can't be
dead; he doesn't love you. - You ready for this? Let's get up, kid. Got some training to do. - [Narrator] This morning I trained with the Italian Stallion, boxed for the championship title, and won. - [Meditation Instructor]
Slow down the mind a little. - [Diary] I feel I've
successfully used this technology as an addition rather than
an escape from my life. - [Narrator] And I wanna
learn about the future of creative technology
with the next generation. So I'm calling up a
teacher here in Georgia. - [Carrie] Um, so I
think what's interesting about game design is that
it's a computer science class. For me, my focus, I
really do want it to be on the creation side
and the artistic pieces, because making games and
making VR, it's not just about the hard code. Like, there are so many
skills that are involved I think that they actually
want to do and spend time on. So, we'll see. (jumbled voices) - [VR Girl] Hello, viewers! Welcome to the VR Girl and Pebbles show! - [Avatar] He's not the first,
he's not gonna be the last. - [Narrator] I am ready to
get out of this headset. The last 8 hours, I'm jumping in one of the most boring VR games. (upbeat techno music) - Oh my gosh, the graphics are so good. - Slight dizziness,
slight, uh, disorientation. It's like my eyes are trying
to catch up with 60 FPS, or 90 FPS, whatever FPS real life is. I have never appreciated the
smell of outside air so much. One thing we cannot replicate is nature. We can do it visually and auditorily, but there's something
about the energy of outside that is amazing. (choir music) - [Narrator] But that's
what it feels like.
I’m still mad they took out that whole plot in the movie
I mean I dream a lot in video game style. And I also look at people as NPCs because well...they are you’re your own character.
Really made me feel like I play too many games. But now I want VR.