Week in Gaming: I can’t wait to fall asleep on a bus in virtual reality

By Kate Gray

Let’s be honest: the only reason any of us are looking forward to the rise of commercially available, financially affordable virtual reality is so that we may break free from the shackles of the boring, never-ending slog that is reality. Maybe our virtual paradise will be a beautiful beach. More likely a world made entirely of perfect bums, but we can pretend we’re being highbrow here.

But even in a VR world, games like Job Simulator already exist – a game in which you strap on your expensive, gigantic piece of headwear designed to help you escape from the mundanity of existence, and… you go to the office. You file reports and string together paperclips and email HR over and over again about the broken heating even though you know it’s the only interesting thing that you get to do at work, and if the heating worked, you’d have no one to talk to, no battles to fight, and thus you would become obsolete and ultimately worthless.

Recently, a lot has been written on American Truck Simulator, a game in which you drive long haul journeys across the States, admiring the scenery and stopping a red lights. Naturally, people have …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming