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My parents are awesome and got me the Oculus Quest 2! So far I’m just taken away with how much VR has improved over the years. It actually felt so comfortable and I was very happy just viewing and observing being in a whole new 3D space (especially the home spaces FB created, my favorite was the one in Japan with the koi fish pond!). I liked the controllers and user interface. It took some time adjusting to moving around with the controllers but I got the hang of it.

The first game I played was Kizuna AI Touch the Beat! It was so much fun, first all I did was listen to the music and play around, getting all excited for light sticks, pixel hearts floating about and beautiful sparkles coming out of my light stick! I then went through the tutorial and played both of the free versions of the game, it reminded me of tap tap but VR version. I enjoyed it a lot, looking forward to playing more, it actually made me sweat!

Today I went onto experience Social VR by attending the Billie Eilish concert inside Oculus Venues which was one of the weirdest experiences because I realized that had social anxiety in the VR world as well. There was so many people around just casually conversing with each other, groups of friends or maybe strangers just talking in circles – and I could hear them! It felt like eavesdropping but these were technically “public virtual spaces”. It was cool and a bit anxiety-inducing at the same time. I don’t know how I feel about conversing personal details with my friends in these worlds. It was super interesting and I have a lot of blended and scattered thoughts about it, I guess because you can hear my actual voice and that might raise some safety issues. I am excited to dive deeper into the Oculus just I’m not able to be in the metaverse for more than 45-60 mins each day.