Recreation Rooms: Share Your VR Rigs & The Physical Space Where You Wear Headsets
Email ianontherecord@gmail.com with subject line "Recreation Room" to share your rigs and VR spaces for potential publication.
People who regularly use VR headsets make accommodations in their physical surroundings to maximize immersion, inspiration, and comfort.
Some people install fold-down beds to make floor space and others only need to put up base stations. There are racing rigs, flying rigs, weather rigs, counterbalance systems, treadmills, and so much more. Even a triple monitor setup on swiveling arms and a shelf full of action figures representing childhood inspirations speak to something we quietly share in common about our passion, yet rarely discuss or show one another.
I want to change that.
People who make and use VR find little and big ways to make their experience in headset last longer and enjoy their time more. They often do so by bending their physical spaces, or even their whole lives, around spending time in headset. With this in mind, I’m hoping to pull from among you my first contributors to this series I’m looking to start called:
Recreation Rooms
I’m looking for photos, videos, and detailed explanations of the hardware and objects in the physical spaces where you wear your headsets.
Some of you even have diagrams and maps you’ve made for these complicated setups, with the square footage marked off for VR use and display cases for all your headsets. Sometimes these spaces are different from the ones in which VR developers do much of their work behind a flatscreen. All these elements are interesting to share because, while each space is unique, I’m convinced that when others see these spaces they’ll begin to realize how alike we all really are. I expect we will also discover ideas and inspiration in the sharing too.
Whether you have a room that looks just like Star Trek’s Holodeck or you carefully planned a racing rig to fit perfectly in a closet, your belief in VR as a medium can absolutely be seen in these locations, the rigs, and the objects you keep close.
So here’s what I’m looking for:
Send your email to ianontherecord@gmail.com with “Recreation Room” in the subject line and I’ll assume you mean for the content in the email to make it onto this Substack.
Include clear photos of the VR space as well as the hardware and items or artworks within.
Include the specifications of your PC that produces VR for you and any other specifics around the hardware setup.
Try to answer with as much detail as possible: Why is my VR space set up like this?
What country is your space in and how long did it take you to put everything together that we see?
What hidden features might your space or rig have that might not be obvious in the photos?
Thank you so very much for your support — this is the first article I’m sending out over email to paid subscribers — and I hope to see some of your VR spaces soon.
