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Man attempts to spend 1 week in VR non-stop.

LZoltowski
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168 hours. Multiple headsets. One fascinating livestream.

What’s the longest amount of time you’ve spent immersed in VR? Three, maybe four hours? Don’t worry, I won’t judge. After all, it’s easy to lose track of time while slicing through colored blocks in Beat Saber or hunting down enemy squads in Onward.

But just how long is too long exactly? Jak Wilmot, a content producer specializing in VR, has been pondering this exact question himself; so much so that the brave virtual reality enthusiast is livestreaming the effects of prolonged exposure to VR during an experiment in which he spends a full week (168 hours) immersed inside a headset.

https://vrscout.com/news/guy-is-spending-full-week-in-vr/

His detailed experience via Twitter

https://twitter.com/JakWilmot

https://twitter.com/JakWilmot/status/1098571585525563392
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Yep, one day a lot us us will spend the majority of our time in virtual or augmented reality. I think the tech will have advanced enough by then to negate any negative physical (and maybe even mental) effects.

I was just thinking about my former employer's workplace VDU usage advice with respect to eye care.... basically looking away from the monitor regularly to exercise the eye's lens focusing muscles.... taking a 15 minute break from the monitor every hour t avoid eye strain.

We don't have realistic object depths in VR to keep those focusing muscles active at all so wondering how 168 hours straight is going to effect them. I can't help thinking the tech isn't where it needs to be for this kind of test.

But yeah, it's certainly interesting.

Anonymous
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I spend the majority of my time in VR AnD iT hAsN'T afFeCTeD ME aT AlL 😮

mmm we need a baseline Snow... just how affected were you before you started using VR?

Anonymous
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About the same. See? VR isn't bad for you, there's the proof! B)

OmegaM4N
Expert Trustee


As my nearly daily routine of playing Skyrim VR (heavily modded) I've done approx 12 hrs in one sitting a number of times (with food, stretch breaks of course)...and have presently racked up 720 hrs to date inside Skyrim VR. After 12 hrs, I definitely needed to sleep and do something different. I can't even imagine trying to play 14 times as long inside VR...fatigue will definitely be a factor even after the first 10 hrs. Strange things will most likely happen to the psychy after a certain amount of time...


Really, 12 hours in one sitting!...wow, you did in one sitting what i might do in a week, i don't envy your hands, fingers and back after so any hours. lol
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RuneSR2
Grand Champion


168 hours. Multiple headsets. One fascinating livestream.

What’s the longest amount of time you’ve spent immersed in VR? Three, maybe four hours? Don’t worry, I won’t judge. After all, it’s easy to lose track of time while slicing through colored blocks in Beat Saber or hunting down enemy squads in Onward.

But just how long is too long exactly? Jak Wilmot, a content producer specializing in VR, has been pondering this exact question himself; so much so that the brave virtual reality enthusiast is livestreaming the effects of prolonged exposure to VR during an experiment in which he spends a full week (168 hours) immersed inside a headset.

https://vrscout.com/news/guy-is-spending-full-week-in-vr/

His detailed experience via Twitter

https://twitter.com/JakWilmot

https://twitter.com/JakWilmot/status/1098571585525563392



168 hours in VR seem like the perfect vacation!

But not without these:

https://youtu.be/9z-Mr7wWa0s

- or sitting down is definitely key to a great (not too smelly) week:

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Nourishment may not be the biggest problem:

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RuneSR2
Grand Champion
Hmm, seems like the dude is doing a lot of more or less ordinary activities, like surfing the web etc:

http://www.1weekinvr.com/

https://youtu.be/fjNKLzzVJp8

The real experiment should be 1 week in for example Skyrim VR - or a similar massive 3D VR world. Six to 8 hours of sleep each night, so that's 7 x 16/18 hours of Skyrim VR = 112 or 126 hours. That would be an interesting experiment...  B) One week, no kids, no chores, sleeping under the night sky and watching the stars  ❤️

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Anonymous
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After a week you'd be a nervous wreck on the lookout for bloomin great big wolufs whenever you go outside lol 😮 😄 😄 😄

Chazmeister
Rising Star

RuneSR2 said:


The real experiment should be 1 week in for example Skyrim VR - or a similar massive 3D VR world. 



If they ever bring space legs to Elite Dangerous, I could imagine trying a 48 hour stint doing that.

Anonymous
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I'd be quite happy to do a MONTH OR TWO in Elite Dangerous, just as long as @vannagirl is around to feed me and change my adult nappies 😄 😄 😄