Seniors Try VR For The First Time - HTC Vive

Get me out of here. Oh my god. No I can't do it. I'm up here with the birds. No. Do you use computers and technology regularly? How do you use it in your daily life? I think I'm very basic with technology and I noticed that little kids, you know, they just have no fear they just keep on touching things until things work. Ten years old he just whips it up. And I've got one of these "fancy phones." Yeah I use my cell phone all the time and it always does what it thinks I want, which is never what I want. Here's a VR Headset This is an HTC Vive Tell us what you think about it. I would think, it was like for those, as from my era, slides, where you put the slides in and you project on the wall. Actually this is the first time I've ever seen one of these. You know I lived through World War Two and we had gas masks. For lack of a better term I'll say scary. It certainly looks very modern and techy. Jesus Christ. This. I don't even know what to say. This is amazing holy crap It reminds me of man's future in space. Always wanted to do anything I wanted in a store. Do you think I'll get fired? (elevator music) No. There's a fire extinguisher. Where is the fire extinguisher? Okay. Can I put my face on it? Oh my goodness gracious. That's my brain. Will you want a little chemical with your bacon? (elevator music) A pocket donut from three days ago. (barfing sound) Here free lottery tickets everybody. Whoa. (elevator music) Oh oh phenomena Oh my god. Oh. You really want me to walk out there? I'm suppose to walk out on this. It's like nice to see the world from this view, but I don't think I could go out on that plank. I'm heavily insured. Okay. Whoa. I would like it better if there was a pool over there and I could jump off of it. (elevator music) Shit. Let's take the headset off. Welcome back. Welcome back to reality. I preferred unreality I think. I see why all these young people waste their lives playing these video games... or whatever they are. It redefines reality because it does feel real. Virtual reality is unreality. It's virtually unreality is what it is. You can experience total freedom. Virtually turn a car around by just a touch made me feel like Superman. It's almost like imagination it has a sort of it set a parcel sort of dreamlike quality. You know it's very seductive. You can get hooked on this. And I could see it could be a terrific escape I mean for people like in hospital beds for a long time. I've had some of that. It drives you nuts you know. Young people will like, of course they're gonna love this, but people who are stuck in beds. And just to be able to do this would probably make them get better. It would be tremendously therapeutic for some people. It's very interesting how your eyes are telling your brain something that your brain really already knows. Virtual reality to me, now that I've experienced it is, in itself, an adventure. So this is what virtual reality is and I think it's amazing. I hadn't realized that it progressed of this state and this sort of thing could be done. I think it's incredible.

Channel: VRScout

Views: 3,292,827

Rating: 4.9070516 out of 5

Keywords: vrscout, virtual reality, vr, htc vive, oculus rift, job simulator, tilt brush, augmented reality, seniors, react, seniors try vr, old people vr, first time vr, vr first time

Id: QvUkcw63bAs

Length: 4min 30sec (270 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 04 2018

Reddit Comments

[u/imagebuff9]

They spoke of benefits to the bedridden. I wholeheartedly agree. I have a friend who has no use of any of his limbs / quadraplegic. Any ideas on games or experiences that he could use?

[u/thebigman43]

Im doing a big project with VR at homes for the elderly currently

[u/zerozed]

Right now the Fine Brothers are seething angry they're not getting a cut from that video's ad revenue.

[u/[deleted]]

That lady on her hands and knees! Too funny! My wife did the same exact thing.

[u/Xoltri]

Fun to watch, it's always fun to see what people think of VR, even if the reaction is always the same, they are always amazed.

[u/[deleted]]

Cant wait to show some older people. But I think there were better options than job simulator. Should have showed the blue or the lab or gallery of the starseed

[u/kangaroo120y]

"It reminds me of mans future in space" ROFL.

My father got a kick out of the Vive. in his 70's and a danger to healthy computer systems everywhere he goes, but the Vive seemed almost second nature. After very little tuition he bounced his way around The Lab then proceeded to use Tilt Brush like it was familiar. But that might be due to Tilt Brush being pretty logical. one controller is the brush, the other is the colour palette.

[u/Poopoodoop]

My family bought my 67 year old father in law a vive and built him a capable PC for Christmas! I bought myself one during the holidays last year and he absolutely loved it, so we got him an entire set up this year.

He’s a huge The Walking Dead fan, so he just plays the shit out of Arizona Sunshine. We actually set up both Vives in the same room and played coop Arizona Sunshine and Rec Room, utilizing the same light house trackers (didn’t know you could do that until we just tried it).

If you have a vr headset.. share it with everyone, especially older people because they are blown away by the tech and it is very fun to be a part of.

[u/evorm]

i wanna see more first reaction vids to VR. i love them so much