- Okay, I can deal with that.

- What am I gonna do then?

- (Finebros) Instead, you're gonna be reacting to this.

- Oh.

- Oh my goodness! Oh, wait.

- It's like a goggle?

- Whoa, this is some type of virtual reality stuff, isn't it?

- That is not what I did before.

- This is like the what-you-call-it, the Oculus Rift?

- (Finebros) So this is called the HTC Vive

and it's a new virtual reality device. - Cool. I love it.

I want to see this.

- (Finebros) And some say it takes virtual reality to the next level.

- I'm excited.

- Can I put it on? Can I put it on?

- (Finebros) All right, are you ready to stand up and give it a shot?

- Stand up? Well, that's a tough shot right there!

- I am old, so you're not gonna scare the hell outta me, are you?

- This is gonna be strange and different, but hey-- no guts, no glory.

- (Finebros) So we're gonna set you up and explain how to use it and just throw you in.

Are you ready?

- I guess so. (laughing) This should be different.

What do I do?

- I guess I need to take my hair down.

- (Finebros) How does it feel to be in the virtual reality world?

- It's, uh... am I still in the same room?

- I feel a little off-balance.

- Wow, that looks like the universe.

- Even this thing's 3D! These are 3D. Woo-hoo-hoo!

- You can go all the way around in this puppy? You can!

Oh my goodness!

- That is absolutely staggering.

- (Finebros) So the first game you're gonna be playing

is called Tilt Brush, which lets you paint in a 3D space.

- Oh, wow!

- I love to paint.

- I'm not a painter, but we'll give it a shot.

- (Finebros) Using the controller in your right hand,

you can control the paint brush and draw whatever you want.

- Hold it up like that?

- Oh.

- Right now, I am doing a head.

- I am drawing a heart with an arrow in it.

- I used to be a school psychologist.

If I had to grade this, IQ zero.

- I'm doin' my name.

- This is so cool. I love it.

- It's like I could touch it.

It's not flat. It's three dimensional.

- (Finebros) Something really cool is once you're done painting,

you can fully walk around it and see it from all different angles.

- You're kidding.

- Awesome!

- This is a lot of fun.

It's not just for kids. It's for anyone.

- I'm inside the painting.

I'm on the other side of the painting.

- Holy crap! The things they could do with this.

- I absolutely know I'm gonna dream about this tonight.

- (Finebros) Okay, time to move on to the next game.

- Okay.

- This has to be the gift of the year.

- (Finebros) Welcome to Robot Repair!

- A whole new world here.

- Unbelievable! Security camera, hi!

- (Finebros) So go over to that garage and pull on the red lever.

- To the doors?

- But there is no lever--

I can't pull something that's not even there!

-There it goes.

- Ah, there's a weird robot!

- Oh shit!

How do you stop it?

- It doesn't look friendly. I might have to zap him.

- Get out of my way!

- Oh, disabled. Is he disabled?

- This is going so high-tech.

Boy, can you think of the brains that went into putting this together?

- My brain is saying if you reach out with your hand and touch this,

you will touch a cold, white metal.

It's unbelievable.

- (Finebros) If you grab the yellow circle, you can spin it.

- Oh, okay.

Stop. 15 seconds.

- How do I-- just do this?

- I see a bunch of little gadgets.

- Holy shit!

- Whoop! What did I do?

- Oh my god! Everything fell apart. I ruined everything.

Ah-hah! Ah, the floor is falling!

- Whoa! Whoa!

- Look at the distance down there.

- That's very deep. Can I fall in there? No.

It's not real.

- Uh-oh!

Oh! I'm so sorry.

- (AI) What kind of robot can't handle the simplest...

- Okay, now what? This guy, he's pointing at me.

- Oh! Here's another one. - (AI) Oh, it's you.

- It's me.

- Oh my god!!

- What do you want up there?

- (AI) Congratulations on your quota-filling promotion, by the way.

You've opened all our eyes to what humans can achieve

when you put... - Well, it's only my first time here.

- My hands are absolutely sweating.

Oh my god!

- (Finebros) You can turn around. The game is done.

- Oh!

- (Finebros) What did you think?

- I-I don't even know what to say 'cause this is just so cool.

- Really fun.

It's very expansive to a very limited mind. (laughing)

- I really had a fear that they were gonna take the floor from underneath me.

I almost fell into the thinking it was reality.

- (Finebros) For your final experience, you'll be playing the shooter game,

The Brookhaven Experiment, where your controller is a gun

and you'll need to fight off zombies. - Zombies?!

- Right up my alley.

- Cool, I like this.

This is like a Saturday night special.

- Come on! Come to the Rocky.

I got somethin' for ya!

- Oh, this is like Five Nights at Freddy's.

- Where are the zombies?

- Ooh, look at that!

Oh god, there's a-- it's like a... is it called a sarcopha--

aaaaaaah!

Here comes something.

- (laughing) Oh shit.

- Oh dear god, they're coming everywhere.

- You! You! You! In your head! Ah!

Bite that.

Goddamn it.

No, okay, I can't do it anymore.

- Well, I'm doing great.

- You're trying to reach in here for me, you asshole!

- Oh, there's a lot of them!

(I died.

(gun shots) - How's that?

I blew your stinking head off!

(zombie moans) - Ah ha ha ha!

In your-- (bullet chamber clicks)

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

Take that! I'll shove this down your throat!

I think I'm out of ammo.

(blasting gun) - (laughing) Shit!

(breathlessly) Oh shi--- (laughing).

Wait a minute. It's not done?

This is very intense.

I don't even know what direction I'm in.

- (Finebros) Okay, let's take it off.

- Wow!

- As a senior, our balance does change.

I felt a little unsteady.

- The first video game I remember is Pong, you know,

and you were very much separate from the game,

and this is you... there's no separation.

- (Finebros) So what are your final thoughts after experiencing

the HTC Vive? - I thought it was really cool.

- It literally took my breath away.

- It's like you're there. You're there!

It's so [bleep] real!

- My stomach is a little unsettled from it.

- My heart, it's just pounding right now.

I'm breathing hard!

- It simulates reality to where it fools your senses.

- I grew up in South America, didn't see TV til I was 18.

So even that was exciting.

And this, you know, TV was a flat thing in front of you

in grey and white, right?

And now you have this amazing world that you'd walk into.

- To watch technology grow from the '70s on

and things get smaller and things get clearer,

it's like a fantasy come true.

- Thanks for watching this episode of Elders React.

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- Goodbye!

(glumly) Time to get back to reality.

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