Yeah, it looks like the most boring game ever. I mean right after No Man's Sky of course.

I'm all for it if it reduces the number of a*holes from the road.

So, I was playing good old The Sims. While it is missing a lot of the features of the sequels, I think the isometric perspective and the 3-step zooming gives it a certain style.

Anyway, I noticed that for a mere §2,300, I could aquire a pair of VR glasses in the game: Notice how they type the word WORLD in uppercase, to point out how VR (sorta) takes you to another place.

When using the SSRI VR-glasses, the Sim do not walk about. So no roomscale. However, they do look around and try to touch stuff in the VR world. It looks pretty much like what is seen with todays VR users. The disclaimer is a realistic touch, too. (Check out the second image I show it together with the Oculus Rift disclaimer.)

The only downside is that I have been unable to play The Sims inside VR. Both Virtual Desktop and VorpX flatly refused to have anything to do with it! Most likely a security feature to avoid recursive VR! :-P

EDIT: Does anyone have a clue what SSRI stands for?

Wikipedia says that SSRI is a class of antidepressants: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor.

Did The Sims name their fictive SSRI Virtual Reality Set after some antidepressants? Makes some sorta sense ...