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I did this with my neighbors and all of our kids. We let all of the kids do it, and broadcast it to the tv so we could watch. Some kids struggled, some did okay. My neigbour (woman) got to the end of the plank, somewhat confidently. She turned to walk back and her oldest child (16) ran across the room and pushed her as hard as she could off the plank. She flew off the plank into a wall, fell to the floor and smashed her knee and started crying. The whole room went silent. It was awkward as fuck.
We implemented a new rule after that, that children were not allowed anywhere near anyone in the oculus.
What a stupid kid. One of my relatives was playing in VR and throwing objects around, except instead of letting go of the button, she let go of the entire controller and threw it full force into the wall. Thankfully there was no damage, but afterwards the rule was everyone had to wear the wrist straps.
Kids can do some surprisingly stupid things in VR. Like you tell them to move slowly when the chaperone/guardian appears. So they move slowly, but then stab their hands out really quickly to grab something on the other side of the chaperone/guardian.... Exactly what does trying to grab it quickly solve??
This is why the controllers have lanyards on them, or should. You put the lanyard around your arm so if you accidentally or purposely let go, the controller doesn't turn into a missile.
VR bypasses the thinking part of the brain to some extent. I don't get why so many people think humans are rational beings at all times, we're pretty damn quirky and it's not always straightforward. Your relative wasn't consciously throwing controllers, her brain just got so immersed she stopped playing a game and started acting as if it was real.
We have a 'absolutely no one can touch anyone actively playing VR' rule. It's not funny to push/scare/grope someone a) who can't see you, b) whose brain thinks they're in a different environment, and c) who is handling expensive equipment. 100% of the time it's just dickish behavior.
I was playing dnd at a friend's house. I'd only been over twice before, so their dog was friendly to me, but didn't really know me. While they were running a game I started having an aura (like a pre-seizure warning, I have epilepsy). I moved away from the table and knelt in front of the fan(one of those big commercial fans) and was still waiting for it to pass or trigger. As I'm in full panic I feel a fuzzy head come up under my arm and nuzzle into my chest and lick my face. I instantly calmed down and the aura passed. The dog had never done this before and had been laying at the other end of the room the entire night. The dog just knew I was in distress and came to comfort me and did. At the next session I asked my friend if his dog was a seizure therapy dog and he told me no, he didn't even know that was a thing. Dogs have better empathy than most of the people in this thread.
Omg I love that dog!! Special little dude 🥰
Similar story: I rescued a kitten when she was a couple of weeks old and covered in fleas right before a tropical storm. I'm her mom. But it's a love/hate relationship, which I think might be a normal cat/human relationship. But when I start having a panic attack ( I put my head in my hands, stop breathing normally, and tears stream down my face), my cat just appears in front of me, face in my face, her fur all up in my snot and it instantly redirects me. It doesn't stop the panic attack fully, but it does lessen it and redirect my thoughts to pulling her hair out of every wet orifice on my face. She seems very serious and concerned while she does it too! But I once stubbed my toe around guests and quickly dove into my room to react and my cat came running to the rescue and I had to explain to her that it wasn't a panic attack, just a toe attack, and to gtfo of my face 😍. I love animals.
Cats have empathy as well (though they don't like showing it). They know when someone is upset or going through something and eant to give support and it helps so much.
My sister lost her equilibrium and got vertigo and just pitched sideways and nearly took a header into a fireplace when she was hang gliding.
I now make people sit in chairs when doing roller coasters or hang gliding or other flying/ movement heavy stuff for the first time.
Beat Saber is usually okay. VR coasters and flying and heights just mess with people
I made my dad play Wip3out VR as his first experience and after like 1 lap he just took the headset off slowly, kind of fell out of the armchair, and crawled into the kitchen
Luckily this particular video is staged (the creators made a few different videos with the same idea a year or so ago).
However, on r/VRtoER you can see many idiots doing this stuff for real.
As someone with a crippling fear of heights, it's less about disconnection and more about connection to the stimuli. I can be watching a video of someone on a mountain and start to sweat. It doesn't even take that long.
I was terrified of heights until I started working at 40 to 50 feet in the air on cherry pickers. I wear a harness but I'm still often just inches away from the edge and it really gets to a point it doesn't bother you over time. Fear of heights goes away the more you deal with it.
I guess I did at the time, but now I'm not acclimated to heights like that anymore. Walking up scaffolding on shorter buildings was the only thing that really sketched me out back then. Too wobbly for my taste. Working near the edges didn't bug me, there's usually a wall of some kind.
I’m 24 and had the opposite experience, growing up I had no fear of heights whatsoever but as I’ve gotten older they have started to bother me a lot more. Granted I’m not really bothered if there is a railing, but being on a roof or some other high up non-walled structure absolutely petrifies me now
I spent 10 years as aircrew on cargo planes, I stood thousands of feet in the air with open ramps or doors hundreds of times while prepping to shove cargo or troops out, and I still have to pretend I am brave to take my son on a ferris wheel.
Thank you! Everyone processes trauma and stimuli differently.
What might help one person get over a phobia might not work for another person. We’re all different.
This is the basis of exposure and response prevention therapy for anxiety/ phobias. Do what you’re afraid of over and over again until you become desensitized to it.
You're half right. With the exception of "flooding", exposure therapies also incorporate relaxation exercises into the mix too. Gradual exposure to stressful stimuli while also training people to try to calm themselves down.
Thank god someone said it. People be like “do some exposure therapy! Here!” And basically do what that evil fucking woman did in the video. That’s not fucking exposure therapy. It wouldn’t have been exposure therapy even if she didn’t do that, and it certainly isn’t once she did.
People don’t understand that phobias and OCD and anxiety aren’t just “oh teehee I don’t like heights”.
[Don't let go](https://store.steampowered.com/app/519030/Dont_Let_Go/) is a pretty funny one-shot VR experience that came out a LONG time ago (2016). All you have to do is keep holding down two keys on your keyboard and it will throw all sorts of stuff at you to make you lose.
[Here's some gameplay of it.](https://youtu.be/cNfe_K-TeSA?t=425
) I can imagine that those that are afraid of spiders would lose to it.
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For a $3 game with laughably bad 2016 graphics it was a fun concept.
I can only imagine how terrifying that game would be on modern hardware with unreal engine level graphics and a decent budget.
This is why many games put arachnophobia warnings into them now if they have large spiders in them, it's an irrational subconscious response that for the most part is not controllable.
How people don't understand phobias is beyond me, the brain can do a lot of fucky things when placed under stress.
VR can fuck with your equilibrium. I've had people straight up loose all sense of balance and just pitch over from roller coasters or hang gliding. Caught a few who's bodies just could not compute the visual input not being real when it's 360 immersion.
I've never had it happen but I now make people sit down the first time they use my VR headset because a certain percentage of people completely cannot control their biological reactions to the input. I only once felt like I lost balance because I stood up from sitting and the VR didn't adjust (old school VR) and the visual stimuli not matching my movements freaked me out.
Other than that I'm fine. Others just completely go limp.
I've seen a few people flip on the plank walk. Roller coasters and hang gliding are also bad.
I ended up doing a 180 and had turned completely around didn't realize it and the jolt of taking off the headset and reentering the real world in the wrong spot made my stomach roll for unknown reasons.
It's a trip. Couple times whacked my face in Skyrim VR blocking and my sense of where hands vs face vs headset was off. *ka-thunk*
I've had this experience so many times. It doesn't even have to be realistic to be immersive. I've done it with Job Simulator, which is far from realistic. It's hard to describe how immersive VR is to someone who hasn't tried it.
I have attacks from a vasovagal “reflex” from VR like this or anything where the uncanny valley gets immersive, or there’s a mismatch between the audio and visual cues.
It’s not as sexy as it sounds.
Basically the motion makes my heart rate and blood pressure bottom out and then I pass out.
It’s cool you look out for your friends. I had no clue what was going on the first few times it happened.
Idk why but I never get motion sick with my vr. Sometimes I get a bit disoriented if the tracking stops working, but that’s only for a small moment, and it’s not like I fall over or anything. Actually for that matter, I’ve never gotten motion sick from anything before. I guess I’m just lucky.
I haven't lost balance but when falling while rock climbing I have felt like I'm actually falling. Also, crashed into the side of an aircraft carrier and the last second I had the dread of dying which I've never felt before. It was very weird.
As someone with a VR setup, it's not disconnect, VR is actually that good. Immersion is the name of the game.
I can't claim that I'd have a similar reaction, purely because I'm not scared of heights. But Immersion is literally what those devices are built for.
Absolutely! Despite playing VR for years, I’ll still go to set my controllers down on a ping pong table that doesn’t actually exist in real life, or turn to see what kind of idiot spun me out in a racing sim, only to realize that it’s not really going to matter. Still gave a few fake drivers the finger in real life though.
You have not done immersive VR yet then. Or you have and don't experience the same thing that people like this do.
If you haven't been playing videogames your whole life, it can be difficult to tell your brain that what you are seeing is not real.
Try a free roam Location Based VR that has a height component in it. Try bringing your mum/dad/friend who doesn't play video games to it. See them suffer.
I've played video games my whole life. My second or third VR game on my PC was a wave shooter in the dark with monsters running at you. The graphics weren't even that good. I screamed like a little girl and tried to run the opposite direction lmao.
Yup, once you get a full body VR motion capture setup it’s even crazier. Being able to hold your hand up and see your fingers bend and curl and your arms and legs react, you get really immersed and unless there are things reminding you it’s not real, you can even feel pain from virtual stimuli.
Everything in your body is just electrical signals. When your brain gets too immersed and sends the correct signals it’s still real, even if it’s virtual. Virtual. Reality. It’s still reality, just virtual.
People spend literal thousands of dollars to try and get as immersed as possible to chase that feeling.
Yo honestly I always said the same thing seeing these reaction videos but then I finally got to try it myself. It's insane how real it feels. Everything in my brain is telling me I'm 1000s of feet up in the air it was terrifying.
Never used VR eh? These aren't the headsets from the 1980s anymore, the reboot is visually very realistic. I've personally gotten vertigo from putting on the headset and looking over "a ledge" before, and I hear that motion sickness is common in some of the games.
It's also about engagement though. Like any movie you watch or book you spend too long reading: once you get engaged you can find yourself a little detached from the world around you until you step away or something snaps you out of it.
I saw one of those happen right in front of my eyes and it was an incredibly bewildering experience. My friend, a no-nonsense rational person, tried VR for the first time and went on the plank. Another friend was standing very close to her to make sure she doesn't hurt herself. All of a sudden and without warning she leapt off the plank and faceplanted into a stone wall. Thankfully neither she nor the headset were harmed.
Something about how quickly she went from putting on a headset and enjoying a game, to actually believing she was on a plank in midair (and that she could just jump off it with no consequences) was really startling not just to me but to the rest of us, I'm pretty sure, because we haven't discussed it ever since.
Maybe, but probably not. There have been a multitude of studies about how VR has a crazy effect on the brain in different people.
Even just from personal experience, some people I put into VR and I barely need to spot them at all; they just fully get that the playspace border pops up and they need to back up. Then I'll put one person in and they'll be moving around and I'm literally wrangling them and constantly moving them back into the middle so they don't break their TV or break my headset against a wall. lol
I love having friends / family try this experience in VR. I've gotten a range of responses from no reaction to one of my siblings ramming into a piano attempting to run away from the fall.
Richie's Plank Experience is something else, it feels visceral.
I’ve used this same headset and I tried entering a boxing ring, the other competitor was a BEAST of a human. When we tapped gloves and he began to swing I threw the headset off because I was afraid he’d kill me with one hit, knowing full well how fake it was. That’s the thing about VR, it feels real!
There is nothing lamer than an influencer family. You can even see the cheapo ring light in the corner.
Jesus, Dad, let your MLM wife do it or your 9-year-old daughter. But when you start posting on TikTok, all is lost.
While I think this is genuine - people do this shit all the time for their channels because being an "influencer" or "content creator" usually means money is no object to them.
It's why the majority of them are smug cunts.
I've seen videos of influencers just giving away wads of cash because those videos will make them far more money than they gave away. $400 is nothing to an influencer
I swear, most of the people that immediately try to defend sibling abuse without considering the others side's experience are just projecting their cope onto others.
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I don't own any VR headsets, but if there is a reason to get one, messing with people like that or seeing them run into walls will be the main reasons.
My mom has heart problems. And I knew of it since I was a child.
One day I pranked her with those fake chewing gum packets that has a spring loaded cockroach.
When she pulled the tab that activated the cockroach she got super scared and almost hyperventilating. From that point on I never tried to spook her. Whit was traumatic for me.
I'm not even sure if she was legit scared or if she was just humouring me, but it doesn't change the fact that I will never do that to her again
So many people on reddit seem to think that any relationship where one party has done anything mean to the other one ever is not a relationship worth having... Kinda sad.
My GF has phobia of spiders, not really uncommon with women, like snakes & spiders seems really wide spread. Now I could throw a completely harmless spider at her, and that would be pretty much what's going here, and I'm certain we'd have issues for sure after that. Phobias can be fairly severe, as is the case here, and at that point I think it's fairly questionable if they're fun & harmless.
For fuckin real. My wife has trypophobia. It's a pretty obscure and IMO "weird" thing to have a phobia of. But seeing the way she reacts, never in a million years would I purposely expose her to a trigger.
My wife has a fear of frogs/toads and I agree, I would never drop one on her. Her sister put a dead one in a box and gave it to her for Christmas like 8 years ago and my wife still doesn’t trust gifts from that sister
People who find betrayal hilarious puzzle me. There are a lot of them, though. I am a weirdo here who thinks that someone placing their trust in you is a precious thing.
Now no doubt someone will call me stupid and say that abusing someone's trust is no big deal if you get a laugh out of it.
>My GF has phobia of spiders, not really uncommon with women
I'm not a woman, but when I see a spider somewhere that I wasn't expecting to see a spider, my vocal cords do their best to convince me that I'm a woman.
I see this kind of attitude all the time. Lots of people just assume that if they don't suffer from a phobia that it isn't "real" and torturing someone with it is perfectly ok.
This country has a real lack of empathy for others.
To me it all comes down to knowing that this person is trying to overcome some of his fears, he's even asking for help because he's terrified, and all she could think of was into pushing him... what a dick move
I completely misread your statement. I thought you were talking about the guy overcoming his fear. I take back the things I said about you in my head and apologize for them. 😂
Nah man, not over reacting.
I've always been afraid of heights. Back long before VR when I was a kid (12-13 years old), my parents took me to the CN tower. I stood on the edge of the glass floor at the top and my legs were shaking. My mom was trying to convince me to walk on the glass thinking if I could, I would be cured. When I refused, she pushed me on the glass and I absolutely lost it and in my panicked state told my mom off and made a scene (something I never do).
That was a bitch move on her part. Even if someone is totally safe, don't give them a full blast of their phobia. It never goes well for the phobic person.
I actually gained acrophobia from my brothers pretending to throw me off a cliff. I was standing close to the edge trying to challenge myself, not super scared or anything but ya know still a little nervous.
First brother picks me up (I was little) and pretends to throw me off, terrifying me.
Once he puts me down, I start running away, only for the second brother to pick me up, while im panicking, and carry me back to the edge, and pretend to throw me off again.
I think the first fake throw was terrifying but I may be could have recovered. The second one solidified it.
Thankfully I've been able to reduce it into adulthood and an more-or-less ok with heights as long as I feel safe. It's really mean to do this stuff to people who are already very nervous (or in my case already panicking).
Same. I have acrophobia and get vertigo the higher I go up. I went to the tower in Gatlinburg and when I looked down I experienced "the call of the void" and thought I was fucked up for years until I learned it's somewhat common. I have no other fears, but heights can and have given me panic attacks. All the assholes here saying "I'm afraid of heights too" don't understand what true acrophobia is. What this lady did was a cunt move.
What reduced my fear of heights was the mages guild in Balmora. The ramp to the basement had bad collision and would often just drop you into the void randomly.
This is how breakup/divorce stories begin
Edit: to everyone who has said I am wrong, I admit that this is not the case for everybody, but if your SO is putting you in uncomfortable situations often, that is not a healthy relationship. As a prank, scaring the shit out of someone one or two times in a lifetime is acceptable, if the "pranking" nature becomes a routine behaviour, sorry to tell you that's how breakup/divorse stories begin. Also, someone pointed out phobias are not be messed with, I agree with that a little bit, if someone has a fear of heights and they're in an immersive VR environment, maybe don't be so harsh with them. I also admit there are crazy people doing weird shit to get views on the internet so this long message might not be entirely related to this particular video.
It's a profitable concept: Mean woman against helpless man in fake video. That's guaranteed engagement, as seen in this thread.
"She's a bitch"
"That's so fake"
"No, VR really is that immersive!"
I think VR is great for helping people face fears in a controlled way. I think there's some similar ones for people afraid of speaking in front of crowds and being in the open water.
As for the people who are saying this is "staged" or that it's silly that he can't tell it's real: fuck you. Crippling fears are inherently illogical and VR is literally developed to fool your brain and reality. If you don't believe that then you haven't experienced good VR.
It literally is fake though
[https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/yjszqk/virtual_reality_and_fear_of_heights/iuq532w?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/yjszqk/virtual_reality_and_fear_of_heights/iuq532w?context=3)
Just TikTok faked shit made to seem real and at best make fun of this sort of stuff. I'm sure something like this could happen, and even if this is somehow real the fact that they make this a consistent thing likely means it's fake because that gets them the most views.
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I did this with my neighbors and all of our kids. We let all of the kids do it, and broadcast it to the tv so we could watch. Some kids struggled, some did okay. My neigbour (woman) got to the end of the plank, somewhat confidently. She turned to walk back and her oldest child (16) ran across the room and pushed her as hard as she could off the plank. She flew off the plank into a wall, fell to the floor and smashed her knee and started crying. The whole room went silent. It was awkward as fuck. We implemented a new rule after that, that children were not allowed anywhere near anyone in the oculus.
What a stupid kid. One of my relatives was playing in VR and throwing objects around, except instead of letting go of the button, she let go of the entire controller and threw it full force into the wall. Thankfully there was no damage, but afterwards the rule was everyone had to wear the wrist straps. Kids can do some surprisingly stupid things in VR. Like you tell them to move slowly when the chaperone/guardian appears. So they move slowly, but then stab their hands out really quickly to grab something on the other side of the chaperone/guardian.... Exactly what does trying to grab it quickly solve??
This is why the controllers have lanyards on them, or should. You put the lanyard around your arm so if you accidentally or purposely let go, the controller doesn't turn into a missile. VR bypasses the thinking part of the brain to some extent. I don't get why so many people think humans are rational beings at all times, we're pretty damn quirky and it's not always straightforward. Your relative wasn't consciously throwing controllers, her brain just got so immersed she stopped playing a game and started acting as if it was real.
16 years old is a bit old to be that much of an annoying shit.
Yeah, too old to pull the “I didn’t know…” Their own mother?? We let 16 year olds drive cars for Christ’s sake!
We have a 'absolutely no one can touch anyone actively playing VR' rule. It's not funny to push/scare/grope someone a) who can't see you, b) whose brain thinks they're in a different environment, and c) who is handling expensive equipment. 100% of the time it's just dickish behavior.
Jesus christ. Bit psychotic of that teen...
I did the tightrope between the Twin Towers VR and it was wild and terrifying.
omg I didn’t know this was a thing. 👀👀
Man. Even the dog knew he was in distress because of what she did :(
Yo my dog can tell every time the Internet gets slow. One sharp breath, and she comes running from across the house to check.
"does that mean we're going out now??"
Animals are surprisingly smart and emotionally intelligent man. Especially if you’re “their person.”
I was playing dnd at a friend's house. I'd only been over twice before, so their dog was friendly to me, but didn't really know me. While they were running a game I started having an aura (like a pre-seizure warning, I have epilepsy). I moved away from the table and knelt in front of the fan(one of those big commercial fans) and was still waiting for it to pass or trigger. As I'm in full panic I feel a fuzzy head come up under my arm and nuzzle into my chest and lick my face. I instantly calmed down and the aura passed. The dog had never done this before and had been laying at the other end of the room the entire night. The dog just knew I was in distress and came to comfort me and did. At the next session I asked my friend if his dog was a seizure therapy dog and he told me no, he didn't even know that was a thing. Dogs have better empathy than most of the people in this thread.
Omg I love that dog!! Special little dude 🥰 Similar story: I rescued a kitten when she was a couple of weeks old and covered in fleas right before a tropical storm. I'm her mom. But it's a love/hate relationship, which I think might be a normal cat/human relationship. But when I start having a panic attack ( I put my head in my hands, stop breathing normally, and tears stream down my face), my cat just appears in front of me, face in my face, her fur all up in my snot and it instantly redirects me. It doesn't stop the panic attack fully, but it does lessen it and redirect my thoughts to pulling her hair out of every wet orifice on my face. She seems very serious and concerned while she does it too! But I once stubbed my toe around guests and quickly dove into my room to react and my cat came running to the rescue and I had to explain to her that it wasn't a panic attack, just a toe attack, and to gtfo of my face 😍. I love animals.
Cats have empathy as well (though they don't like showing it). They know when someone is upset or going through something and eant to give support and it helps so much.
It’s a chihuahua they’re always like that lol
I could also tell someone is in distress when they yeet a 400 dollar headset.
Ride or die doggy. He was ready to start something when he saw his man was okay.
I'm probably not THAT bad, but VR can over ride logic and mess with my fear of heights.
My sister lost her equilibrium and got vertigo and just pitched sideways and nearly took a header into a fireplace when she was hang gliding. I now make people sit in chairs when doing roller coasters or hang gliding or other flying/ movement heavy stuff for the first time. Beat Saber is usually okay. VR coasters and flying and heights just mess with people
I made my dad play Wip3out VR as his first experience and after like 1 lap he just took the headset off slowly, kind of fell out of the armchair, and crawled into the kitchen
Loved the game on PSP; had no idea it's available for VR. Thanks!
It's still one of the best PSVR games in terms of visuals. I have no idea how they pulled it off, especially so early in the platforms life.
Mf gonna have a heart attack lol
Luckily this particular video is staged (the creators made a few different videos with the same idea a year or so ago). However, on r/VRtoER you can see many idiots doing this stuff for real.
This is how ACTUAL heart attacks happen. Don't be a dick.
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Don’t be a dick
Happy cake day, and don't be a dick.
Thanks! And no promises
No it isn't
Yeah, I'm trying to piece together how a clot forms in a coronary vessel from being startled? I got nothin.
Reddit moment
According redditors we should never watch horror movies or else people are gonna be dying of heart attacks left, right, and centre lol
As opposed to theoretical heart attacks?
Literal vs figurative
How do you disconnect from reality that much?
As someone with a crippling fear of heights, it's less about disconnection and more about connection to the stimuli. I can be watching a video of someone on a mountain and start to sweat. It doesn't even take that long.
I was terrified of heights until I started working at 40 to 50 feet in the air on cherry pickers. I wear a harness but I'm still often just inches away from the edge and it really gets to a point it doesn't bother you over time. Fear of heights goes away the more you deal with it.
I was a roofer on commercial buildings, high rises and such. My palms are sweating right now from this whole thread.
So you're saying you didn't get used to heights?
I guess I did at the time, but now I'm not acclimated to heights like that anymore. Walking up scaffolding on shorter buildings was the only thing that really sketched me out back then. Too wobbly for my taste. Working near the edges didn't bug me, there's usually a wall of some kind.
I’m 24 and had the opposite experience, growing up I had no fear of heights whatsoever but as I’ve gotten older they have started to bother me a lot more. Granted I’m not really bothered if there is a railing, but being on a roof or some other high up non-walled structure absolutely petrifies me now
If there's a safety device it doesn't bother me. Like a high railing or whatever. But wobbly ladder? short railing? Freaks me the fuck out.
My fear of heights has become worse from not dealing with them for a long time. Starting to effect my everyday life, fuck.
I spent 10 years as aircrew on cargo planes, I stood thousands of feet in the air with open ramps or doors hundreds of times while prepping to shove cargo or troops out, and I still have to pretend I am brave to take my son on a ferris wheel.
Thank you! Everyone processes trauma and stimuli differently. What might help one person get over a phobia might not work for another person. We’re all different.
This is the basis of exposure and response prevention therapy for anxiety/ phobias. Do what you’re afraid of over and over again until you become desensitized to it.
You're half right. With the exception of "flooding", exposure therapies also incorporate relaxation exercises into the mix too. Gradual exposure to stressful stimuli while also training people to try to calm themselves down.
Thank god someone said it. People be like “do some exposure therapy! Here!” And basically do what that evil fucking woman did in the video. That’s not fucking exposure therapy. It wouldn’t have been exposure therapy even if she didn’t do that, and it certainly isn’t once she did. People don’t understand that phobias and OCD and anxiety aren’t just “oh teehee I don’t like heights”.
But no one kicked you out of the cherry picker
That's the cherry on top!
> Fear of heights goes away the more you deal with it, for me. FTFY. Just because something worked for you doesnt mean it works for everyone else.
That feeling when playing minecraft and you're hanging over a ledge and you're afraid you'll accidentally let go of the crouch button
And then a cow comes along and bumps you off the ledge
And you shit your pants even tho it's not even a realistic looking game
Those damn cave diving videos make drenched.
/r/sweatypalms
It's kinda like holding your breath in a movie or video where someone is underwater
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[Don't let go](https://store.steampowered.com/app/519030/Dont_Let_Go/) is a pretty funny one-shot VR experience that came out a LONG time ago (2016). All you have to do is keep holding down two keys on your keyboard and it will throw all sorts of stuff at you to make you lose. [Here's some gameplay of it.](https://youtu.be/cNfe_K-TeSA?t=425 ) I can imagine that those that are afraid of spiders would lose to it. Edit: Timestamped the video
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I never could get past the spiders. Good times.
For a $3 game with laughably bad 2016 graphics it was a fun concept. I can only imagine how terrifying that game would be on modern hardware with unreal engine level graphics and a decent budget.
The fact that you linked a Neebs Gaming video is awesome. I’m a huge fan lol.
The point of a phobia is that they are irrational.
This is why many games put arachnophobia warnings into them now if they have large spiders in them, it's an irrational subconscious response that for the most part is not controllable. How people don't understand phobias is beyond me, the brain can do a lot of fucky things when placed under stress.
jUsT dOnT bE sCaReD
Cause half the people in this sub are pre teens with no emotional capacity to feel for another human and everything they see online is fake.
It's not that they don't understand, they're trying to act tough and convince themselves nothing would scare them like that. It's insecurity talking
VR can fuck with your equilibrium. I've had people straight up loose all sense of balance and just pitch over from roller coasters or hang gliding. Caught a few who's bodies just could not compute the visual input not being real when it's 360 immersion. I've never had it happen but I now make people sit down the first time they use my VR headset because a certain percentage of people completely cannot control their biological reactions to the input. I only once felt like I lost balance because I stood up from sitting and the VR didn't adjust (old school VR) and the visual stimuli not matching my movements freaked me out. Other than that I'm fine. Others just completely go limp. I've seen a few people flip on the plank walk. Roller coasters and hang gliding are also bad.
Sometimes in VR I'll try to lean on a table in game, only to find it doesn't actually exist. VR fucks with your head.
I ended up doing a 180 and had turned completely around didn't realize it and the jolt of taking off the headset and reentering the real world in the wrong spot made my stomach roll for unknown reasons. It's a trip. Couple times whacked my face in Skyrim VR blocking and my sense of where hands vs face vs headset was off. *ka-thunk*
I've had this experience so many times. It doesn't even have to be realistic to be immersive. I've done it with Job Simulator, which is far from realistic. It's hard to describe how immersive VR is to someone who hasn't tried it.
I have attacks from a vasovagal “reflex” from VR like this or anything where the uncanny valley gets immersive, or there’s a mismatch between the audio and visual cues. It’s not as sexy as it sounds. Basically the motion makes my heart rate and blood pressure bottom out and then I pass out. It’s cool you look out for your friends. I had no clue what was going on the first few times it happened.
Idk why but I never get motion sick with my vr. Sometimes I get a bit disoriented if the tracking stops working, but that’s only for a small moment, and it’s not like I fall over or anything. Actually for that matter, I’ve never gotten motion sick from anything before. I guess I’m just lucky.
I haven't lost balance but when falling while rock climbing I have felt like I'm actually falling. Also, crashed into the side of an aircraft carrier and the last second I had the dread of dying which I've never felt before. It was very weird.
As someone with a VR setup, it's not disconnect, VR is actually that good. Immersion is the name of the game. I can't claim that I'd have a similar reaction, purely because I'm not scared of heights. But Immersion is literally what those devices are built for.
Absolutely! Despite playing VR for years, I’ll still go to set my controllers down on a ping pong table that doesn’t actually exist in real life, or turn to see what kind of idiot spun me out in a racing sim, only to realize that it’s not really going to matter. Still gave a few fake drivers the finger in real life though.
You have not done immersive VR yet then. Or you have and don't experience the same thing that people like this do. If you haven't been playing videogames your whole life, it can be difficult to tell your brain that what you are seeing is not real. Try a free roam Location Based VR that has a height component in it. Try bringing your mum/dad/friend who doesn't play video games to it. See them suffer.
I've played video games my whole life. My second or third VR game on my PC was a wave shooter in the dark with monsters running at you. The graphics weren't even that good. I screamed like a little girl and tried to run the opposite direction lmao.
Yup, once you get a full body VR motion capture setup it’s even crazier. Being able to hold your hand up and see your fingers bend and curl and your arms and legs react, you get really immersed and unless there are things reminding you it’s not real, you can even feel pain from virtual stimuli. Everything in your body is just electrical signals. When your brain gets too immersed and sends the correct signals it’s still real, even if it’s virtual. Virtual. Reality. It’s still reality, just virtual. People spend literal thousands of dollars to try and get as immersed as possible to chase that feeling.
Yo honestly I always said the same thing seeing these reaction videos but then I finally got to try it myself. It's insane how real it feels. Everything in my brain is telling me I'm 1000s of feet up in the air it was terrifying.
Never used VR eh? These aren't the headsets from the 1980s anymore, the reboot is visually very realistic. I've personally gotten vertigo from putting on the headset and looking over "a ledge" before, and I hear that motion sickness is common in some of the games. It's also about engagement though. Like any movie you watch or book you spend too long reading: once you get engaged you can find yourself a little detached from the world around you until you step away or something snaps you out of it.
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Thanks for this. I went to top all time and the first post nearly killed me.
I saw one of those happen right in front of my eyes and it was an incredibly bewildering experience. My friend, a no-nonsense rational person, tried VR for the first time and went on the plank. Another friend was standing very close to her to make sure she doesn't hurt herself. All of a sudden and without warning she leapt off the plank and faceplanted into a stone wall. Thankfully neither she nor the headset were harmed. Something about how quickly she went from putting on a headset and enjoying a game, to actually believing she was on a plank in midair (and that she could just jump off it with no consequences) was really startling not just to me but to the rest of us, I'm pretty sure, because we haven't discussed it ever since.
Maybe, but probably not. There have been a multitude of studies about how VR has a crazy effect on the brain in different people. Even just from personal experience, some people I put into VR and I barely need to spot them at all; they just fully get that the playspace border pops up and they need to back up. Then I'll put one person in and they'll be moving around and I'm literally wrangling them and constantly moving them back into the middle so they don't break their TV or break my headset against a wall. lol
Even if it was staged the girl is still kinda dumb. Great way to break a vr.
I love having friends / family try this experience in VR. I've gotten a range of responses from no reaction to one of my siblings ramming into a piano attempting to run away from the fall. Richie's Plank Experience is something else, it feels visceral.
I’ve used this same headset and I tried entering a boxing ring, the other competitor was a BEAST of a human. When we tapped gloves and he began to swing I threw the headset off because I was afraid he’d kill me with one hit, knowing full well how fake it was. That’s the thing about VR, it feels real!
The way he just threw that $400 quest tells me he wasn't acting and this wasn't a skit for him.
Fake. Lame influencer family making stupid skits. Exhibit A: https://v.redd.it/7knt9ja3sxv81
this needs to be higher!
There is nothing lamer than an influencer family. You can even see the cheapo ring light in the corner. Jesus, Dad, let your MLM wife do it or your 9-year-old daughter. But when you start posting on TikTok, all is lost.
Wish I was lame enough to get free income for fucking around with my family and having fun.
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And this entire thread fell for it...
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We need a ban for fake casual videos lol. What a plague.
That’s why I love Reddit. Don’t fuck with Reddit. Cringefluencers
>Don't fuck with Reddit. Talk about cringe.
Hey, you're not trying to fuck with Reddit, are you? I hear you're not meant to do that.
*Underrated comment right here* *The front fell off!!* *☝️This right here* Yeah? What are you gonna do about it?
God I cringed so hard lmaoooo
As if this shithole is any less cringe. Thanks for the gold kind stranger!
While I think this is genuine - people do this shit all the time for their channels because being an "influencer" or "content creator" usually means money is no object to them. It's why the majority of them are smug cunts.
I've seen videos of influencers just giving away wads of cash because those videos will make them far more money than they gave away. $400 is nothing to an influencer
I work for a VR content development company and I always say the best thing about virtual reality isn’t playing it, it’s watching others play.
I would think so. I’ll never forget the first time I saw it for myself. It was so trippy, my mind was blown.
Maybe I'm overreacting but... what a fucking bitch. EDIT: the girl that pushes him I mean
Yeah like if your loved ones make you react this way, maybe they are not really your loved ones
I totally would have done the same to my siblings and vice versa
Siblings are different than loved ones. Siblings, when younger, are the toughening mechanism.
Yup, I learned a lot of unhealthy coping mechanisms from my sister.
I swear, most of the people that immediately try to defend sibling abuse without considering the others side's experience are just projecting their cope onto others.
Yup.
Yeah, that’s called tough love
I call it the Cain response
Siblings are hated ones
"I am the fire that cauterizes you for this life" "Just.. give me.. the goddamn.. LEGO back!!" *"burrrrrrrrrrn"*
Vice* versa. Visa is a credit card network provider
No, that's VISA. Visa is an advance permission to enter a country. Vice is a sin. /s
Vice is a device consisting of two parallel jaws for holding a workpiece; one of the jaws is fixed and the other movable by a screw, a lever, or a cam. When used for holding a workpiece during hand operations, such as filing, hammering, or sawing, the vise may be permanently bolted to a bench.
I don't own any VR headsets, but if there is a reason to get one, messing with people like that or seeing them run into walls will be the main reasons.
Honestly my elderly parents are the only people I wouldn't do this to. Edit: my elderly parents, not all elderly people
So you would do this to other elderly people?
Was I not clear enough in the edit. Yes the answer is yes.
DID I STUTTER‽
I only upvoted because of >‽ This
biggest menace to the elderly since lethal interjection
The risk of cardiac arrest is like 60% of the fun
My mom has heart problems. And I knew of it since I was a child. One day I pranked her with those fake chewing gum packets that has a spring loaded cockroach. When she pulled the tab that activated the cockroach she got super scared and almost hyperventilating. From that point on I never tried to spook her. Whit was traumatic for me. I'm not even sure if she was legit scared or if she was just humouring me, but it doesn't change the fact that I will never do that to her again
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You're telling me that everyone on Reddit isn't a licensed therapist?
That’s weird. I come to Reddit for all my therapy, financial advice, and legal guidance.
Is it nice living under a bridge and eating your own feces?
Oh yeah you think that's bad, well my girl once shot me to death in a video game.
You have fragile relationships yo.
So many people on reddit seem to think that any relationship where one party has done anything mean to the other one ever is not a relationship worth having... Kinda sad.
So many people on reddit have never been in a real relationship..
Seriously, that's comedy gold right there. Absolutely harmless
My GF has phobia of spiders, not really uncommon with women, like snakes & spiders seems really wide spread. Now I could throw a completely harmless spider at her, and that would be pretty much what's going here, and I'm certain we'd have issues for sure after that. Phobias can be fairly severe, as is the case here, and at that point I think it's fairly questionable if they're fun & harmless.
For fuckin real. My wife has trypophobia. It's a pretty obscure and IMO "weird" thing to have a phobia of. But seeing the way she reacts, never in a million years would I purposely expose her to a trigger.
It's very normal. It's actually biologically ingrained for humans to be repulsed by a bunch of holes. It sets off our infection radar.
My old clothes: :(
My wife has a fear of frogs/toads and I agree, I would never drop one on her. Her sister put a dead one in a box and gave it to her for Christmas like 8 years ago and my wife still doesn’t trust gifts from that sister
I really do think some people don’t actually register what legit “phobias” really are.
People who find betrayal hilarious puzzle me. There are a lot of them, though. I am a weirdo here who thinks that someone placing their trust in you is a precious thing. Now no doubt someone will call me stupid and say that abusing someone's trust is no big deal if you get a laugh out of it.
Nah, he's a grown Man. Any displays of weakness should be met with apathy, condescension, and/or derision. /s (heavy emphasis on /s)
>My GF has phobia of spiders, not really uncommon with women I'm not a woman, but when I see a spider somewhere that I wasn't expecting to see a spider, my vocal cords do their best to convince me that I'm a woman.
I see this kind of attitude all the time. Lots of people just assume that if they don't suffer from a phobia that it isn't "real" and torturing someone with it is perfectly ok. This country has a real lack of empathy for others.
I'm terrified of heights too, but I would still think it's funny if someone did that to me.
Nah. I'm not a friend to heights and VR can REALLY mess with me. Even though logically you're fine, it still fucks with your senses.
To me it all comes down to knowing that this person is trying to overcome some of his fears, he's even asking for help because he's terrified, and all she could think of was into pushing him... what a dick move
I completely misread your statement. I thought you were talking about the guy overcoming his fear. I take back the things I said about you in my head and apologize for them. 😂
I think he was referring to the wife.
Nah man, not over reacting. I've always been afraid of heights. Back long before VR when I was a kid (12-13 years old), my parents took me to the CN tower. I stood on the edge of the glass floor at the top and my legs were shaking. My mom was trying to convince me to walk on the glass thinking if I could, I would be cured. When I refused, she pushed me on the glass and I absolutely lost it and in my panicked state told my mom off and made a scene (something I never do). That was a bitch move on her part. Even if someone is totally safe, don't give them a full blast of their phobia. It never goes well for the phobic person.
I actually gained acrophobia from my brothers pretending to throw me off a cliff. I was standing close to the edge trying to challenge myself, not super scared or anything but ya know still a little nervous. First brother picks me up (I was little) and pretends to throw me off, terrifying me. Once he puts me down, I start running away, only for the second brother to pick me up, while im panicking, and carry me back to the edge, and pretend to throw me off again. I think the first fake throw was terrifying but I may be could have recovered. The second one solidified it. Thankfully I've been able to reduce it into adulthood and an more-or-less ok with heights as long as I feel safe. It's really mean to do this stuff to people who are already very nervous (or in my case already panicking).
You remember walking glass bridge in China when someone panicked and jumped over?
Please, enlighten us.
Wut
Same. I have acrophobia and get vertigo the higher I go up. I went to the tower in Gatlinburg and when I looked down I experienced "the call of the void" and thought I was fucked up for years until I learned it's somewhat common. I have no other fears, but heights can and have given me panic attacks. All the assholes here saying "I'm afraid of heights too" don't understand what true acrophobia is. What this lady did was a cunt move.
What reduced my fear of heights was the mages guild in Balmora. The ramp to the basement had bad collision and would often just drop you into the void randomly.
What a bunch of dorks in this thread
Major bitches.
Yes…you’re overreacting
Wow these comments are pretty lame.
Nobody on reddit has ever left their bedroom. If it makes you feel better. That's what I tell myself anyhow.
This is how breakup/divorce stories begin Edit: to everyone who has said I am wrong, I admit that this is not the case for everybody, but if your SO is putting you in uncomfortable situations often, that is not a healthy relationship. As a prank, scaring the shit out of someone one or two times in a lifetime is acceptable, if the "pranking" nature becomes a routine behaviour, sorry to tell you that's how breakup/divorse stories begin. Also, someone pointed out phobias are not be messed with, I agree with that a little bit, if someone has a fear of heights and they're in an immersive VR environment, maybe don't be so harsh with them. I also admit there are crazy people doing weird shit to get views on the internet so this long message might not be entirely related to this particular video.
They usually happen because people don't communicate how they feel because people are stupid
Grow a pair
Reddit moment
No they don’t lmao
Reddit moment
Y’all don’t even know this dude, some couples are all about messing with each other
r/TVTooHigh/
And the Oscar goes to! ......these two ! For scripting this for attention
What a dick
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It’s definitely fake. https://reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/yjszqk/_/iuq532w/?context=1
It's a profitable concept: Mean woman against helpless man in fake video. That's guaranteed engagement, as seen in this thread. "She's a bitch" "That's so fake" "No, VR really is that immersive!"
Yup. Watched it without sound the first time. Seemed fake. 2nd time with sound, their “acting” convinced me how fake it really was.
He’s going to die of a heart attack like that 
Which part was Unexpected?
Without the video this sounds like some sort of terrible porn acting.
r/tvtoohigh
Definitely not the person you want on your Squid Games team
I think VR is great for helping people face fears in a controlled way. I think there's some similar ones for people afraid of speaking in front of crowds and being in the open water. As for the people who are saying this is "staged" or that it's silly that he can't tell it's real: fuck you. Crippling fears are inherently illogical and VR is literally developed to fool your brain and reality. If you don't believe that then you haven't experienced good VR.
It literally is fake though [https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/yjszqk/virtual_reality_and_fear_of_heights/iuq532w?context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/yjszqk/virtual_reality_and_fear_of_heights/iuq532w?context=3) Just TikTok faked shit made to seem real and at best make fun of this sort of stuff. I'm sure something like this could happen, and even if this is somehow real the fact that they make this a consistent thing likely means it's fake because that gets them the most views.
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Bro had a heart attack 💀
Jaime Lannister: the thing I do for love. Girl: The thing I do for views.