Friday, November 11, 2016

Utopia 360 Virtual Reality Goggles

I bought the Retrak Utopia 36 virtual reality goggles with blue tooth controller from Best Buy. It was a reasonably prices about thirty dollars. The blue tooth controller uses two AAA batteries. The controller can used with either android or IOS, there is a switch between the two. The controller is similar to a game controller for a game machine but smaller. The goggles are adjustable and can be used with different phones. The virtual reality app's can be downloaded from the respective app stores.
I found that they fit over my glasses quite comfortably. It was tricky removing it without also removing my glasses too but I found a way. It held my phone quite well. I damaged on part while trying to put it in with the case on but it still worked quite well after I took the case / cover off. 

I tried different apps with it. I tried a haunted house - House of Terror VR, and a couple of virtual roller coasters; Darkness Roller Coaster and Roller Coaster VR. The haunted house was neat. One used the blue tooth controller to move around the haunted house. It helped to be on a swivel chair so one can sit down while exploring the haunted house. The other two were virtual roller coasters. One was simple but the other more complex and caused some nausea after using it for awhile.

I will be trying different virtual apps. There are ones where one can take a virtual tour of different places. One has to be careful not to use it too long since more current phones are stronger than the older ones and one would want ones brain that close to that source for too long. 


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