Recreation Rooms: Arlen Kundert Walks Around Skyrim VR In His Basement

Arlen Kundert walked more than 11 days across Tamriel on his Kat Walk.

If I had a basement I would set it up much like Arlen Kundert.

There’s the couch and Insignia massage chair next to the game systems off to one side with Xbox 360 and Kinect, Xbox One X, Wii U and PC carrying 32GB of RAM, an RTX 5070ti, and an Intel i7 11700k.

I can spot what look like Disney Infinity figures on a shelf below the surround sound speakers installed in the top corners of the room. There’s a Quest 2 and Quest 3 ready to be worn and prints of nebulae on the wall with a hidden Darth Vader next to the TARDIS.

And then, off near the front of the basement, there’s the Kat Walk. Kundert plays just one game walking on “one of the world’s two major ODTs (Omni-directional treadmill)” — Skyrim VR.

“The sound of my Kat Walk is only tolerable because it’s in the basement,” Kundert wrote to me. “And our bedroom is on the top floor. When [my wife] is on the main floor, the sound of my feet clanking on the treadmill drives her nuts.”

Kundert’s kitten Link chased a mouse cursor across the screen as I asked him to estimate how many miles and minutes he’s spent walking across Tamriel.

Steam reports Kundert has so far spent 272 hours in Skyrim VR. All of those hours have been on the Kat Walk. If you figure in sleeping time, that’s easily half a month of Kundert’s life spent sleeping and walking in virtual reality across Tamriel.

There’s one more photo Kundert shared with me for my Recreation Rooms series here. He’s a networking technician by day, and so I have the creator of this impressive “nerd cave” posing in front of the network switch that keeps this universe running. If you’ve got a Quest, you can take a look around for yourself in Meta’s Hyperscape app.

You can check out Don Carson’s Recreation Room now and share your own as part of my series with ianontherecord@gmail.com. Just be sure to include as many details as you can provide.