As it turns out, there is a whole world entirely free from COVID-19 hiding in plain sight. In early March, as it became clear that crowded events would become impossible for quite some time, I purchased an entry-level ticket to VR with the Oculus Go. Wes Anderson's Best Shots: 30 Perfect Images That Define His CareerĪ few months ago, I would have found the prospects of tracking a major sociopolitical debate in VR to be a surreal concept lifted from the pages of speculative sci-fi. 'Bergman Island': How Mia Hansen-Løve Found Herself (And Her Work) in Her Most Personal Film Yet The Best VR Headsets for Gaming: Oculus Quest 2, PlayStation VR, and More It’s amazing that someone living 5,000 miles away would find this personal.” “An event in one part of the world is now an event for the entire world. “This is just a cool exemplification of what VR can be,” Tom told the crowd. A stately man identified only as Tom, who helped Simon organize the event after meeting him at a weekly VR town hall event called “The Evening News,” put the globe-spanning gathering in context. The ensuing conversation found Simon recapping his country’s history with colonialism, and juggling questions from the room. It concerns some of us on a level that may be even more than in the U.S. “We have CNN here in Kenya, we have Fox News, we have all of that. “You guys should know that we are watching you,” Simon explained. The small event in Altspace, a social community run by Microsoft, found about a dozen cartoonish avatars standing around an expansive digital room as Simon explained his intent. in Nairobi, Kenya when a man named Paul Simon - no relation to the singer - strapped on his virtual reality headset and hosted a discussion about George Floyd.
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