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Man Sets World Record With 25 Continuous Hours In Virtual Reality (roadtovr.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Derek Westerman has made it in the Guinness Book of World Records by spending 25 straight hours in virtual reality. He used the HTC Vive and spent his entire time playing Tilt Brush. "Guinness has a whole set of rules and regulations, one of those being 'one game only the whole time.' I wanted to pick something that gave me the most freedom," Westerman says, "And painting in 3D space for 25 hours seemed like the best bet." At around the 17th hour mark, Westerman reportedly experienced some vertigo and threw up into a bucket provided for him by an assistant. The same bucket was used around the 6th hour mark when Westerman had to urinate. Then around the 21st hour, he starts babbling incoherently while waving the Vive controllers around, saying at one point, "I don't know where I'm at..." The video of the event has been released on Wednesday, even though Guinness lists the record as being achieved on April 7th.
So we know after 16hours to take a 5min break then get back to the pr0n
It's not a typo if you understood the meaning!
He goes back in time to urinate in the bucket he threw up in?
Should have called Guinness.
...if he hadn't picked such a shitty "game." I'd throw up too if I had to "play" MS Paint for 25 hours straight.
I've recently toyed around with "Tilt Brush" in VR using a Vive, and while it might be not as boring as the "Job Simulator", it became pretty boring after 15 minutes or so. Doing "Tilt Brush" for 25 hours sounds dangerous to your mental health - not because of VR!
He was never unplugged. He's so immersed in the virtual world he forgot the Slashdot he's seeing right now is not the real Slashdot.
The real game is called tit and bush.
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for about 26 hours.
Kevin Flynn has this record beat by more than 25 years!
give me 1kg of cocaine and a game like super mario world and I stay awake for 25 DAYS. omg i'm on hidden tabs!
I've been in VR my entire life.
After his experience, he said “There is a definitely a difference between my life before and after spending days in Virtual Reality. I was marked by it. And now, in an exciting way, everything feels slightly superficial or unreal.”
I want to know how, how it's affected his daily life, and whether that unreality is starting to pass. I've read quite a bit about the effects of LSD and psilocybin, and would like to know if there are any similarities.
It's a pity there wasn't a team of researchers there with him...
Just strap a vibe to the head to one of those people that don't sleep. It's the same as staying awake period. Where is the added difficulty in wearing a VR headset?
When I read this, the first thing that came to mind was Reginald Barclay's recurring holodeck addiction in Star Trek. I'm failing to understand why someone would do this.
so far, so good
Fuck virtual, fuck reality, fuck virtual reality, fuck HTC, fuck Guinness, fuck 25 hours, fuck slashdot, and FUCK YOU!!!!!!
Puh-leeze. We have slashdot members who have been living in virtual reality for years.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Is just 25 hours really a world record? It sounds like the kind of thing a South Korean might do by accident.
Guinness stopped doing records for things like quantity of food or drink ingested because of health dangers. Sleep deprivation is dangerous too though this man wasn't into the recognized danger zone yet
So the guy started babbling incoherently at hour 21? What a light-weight!
I've done 70 (w/a 3-hr nap at 24).
I can perform solid efforts in the mid-30's of hours once every month or two (and I am in my late 40's). I stop when I have to re-read a sentence twice—That indicates the end of coherent conscious thinking. That is when you whip out the Post-Its because you have 5 minutes of semi-coherence left—So mark where you left off well!
Very surprised by the attention this is getting while Cris Miranda from EnterVR is (right now) spending 100 hours in VR and finished his 24 hour stint before the OP. He is presently on hour 48 and you can watch the live stream here http://www.hitbox.tv/metaversescholarsclub
This /. Headline Annoys me. It should be edited to read "24hrs in VR Guinness Record overshadows the first 48hrs of EnterVRs 100hr Marathon Stream"
http://www.hitbox.tv/metaversescholarsclub
On a serious note, if you are allowed to sleep - which the text description of the record seems to indicate to me - people will rack up a month to a year, easy, soon enough. Technically since the VR headsets are low voltage electronics, it makes me wonder if you could make a waterproof version so you could shower your funky ass off without removing it.
I spend 30h in my VFX1, even slept in it, Does that not count?
Kind of surprised that the record is so low, but isn't this basically an exercise in staying awake?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Wait until Starcraft get VR in South Korea.
The way guiness does these continuous X things it they get breaks every for hours. It's deceptive and stupid. Man stands on one leg for 3 days (while taking 15 minute breaks every 2 hours) !
So we can look forward to a future of people who plonk down in front of a box, don't move and die of blood clots?
YAY!
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I certainly played more hours than 25h Descent in one row except for going to the toilet.
And our multiplayer sessions often reached easily 10 hours.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Wow, if 25 hours is all it takes, then this record will not be held for long.
superman, firefighters, Derek Westerman, batman....
Do I have to come over and take away the mirror again?
I, for one, would gladly welcome our new basement VR overlords, since the arrival of the robot overlords has been delayed by driverless traffic gridlock (a sandbag is blocking a turning lane somewhere as we speak).
Operating heavy equipment and backhoes in all kinds of weather, performing critical tasks requiring precise coordination and at times unorthodox methods, including descent into dangerous confined spaces to repair water and sewer mains, where one is drenched in icy water attempting to digout, clean and clamp a spraying pipe while staring at a 7kV electrical conduit... we had long realized that some day there will be robots.
So imagine our surprise when a robot showed up at the job site the other day.
It was walking funny with its arms outstretched in front of it. It picked up a small shovel and started digging as if it was holding a paintbrush. We moved it gently aside and started our trench excavation to expose and fix the leaking water main, figuring that someone would soon show up to tell us what was going on.
At around the three hour mark the robot walked to the edge of our trench and adopted a posture, hands fumbling at its metal 'hips', unmistakably that of a man leaning over to piss on a fence. The guy in the trench looked up in horror but when no stream emerged everyone broke out in fits of laughter. Soon after the robot fell into the trench and continued to make weird sweeping motions, digging at the walls with its shovel. We set back to work and ignored it.
Then as we were tightening the clamp on the water pipe the robot wiggled up to it, bumping the aside the fellow who was tightening it and and spoke, loudly, for the first time through a speaker. "I don't know where I'm at..." it said. Then it strated making retching noises as if it was vomiting onto the water pipe. Again nothing actually came out thankfully, but it was just too much. We roared with laughter this time and someone suggested. "Sure buddy, that's pretty obvious by now," we said. "Why don't you just go home and sleep it off."
The robot continued its strange sweeping motions nicking the sides of the trench with its little shovel, but we were done and it was time to finish up. We put a chain around it and lifted it out of the trench with the backhoe bucket and set it down some distance away, and it wandered off mumbling.
When we got back I informed my supervisor that the robot test was interesting for sure, but it didn't go too well. She asked, "What robot test?"
Since that strange encounter we don't worry so much that robots will replace our jobs any more. In fact, we've made it known that we would not mind if a robot joined the crew. We would look after it and keep it from getting into trouble, and it would help relieve the occasional drudgery and boredom.
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I know people that have been living in another reality for decades! If it's not the 'real' world, then it must ve some kind of virtual. For example, take Donald Trump.... Need I say more?!
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