So I'm a 24 year old male who's into gaming and technology. I am a "early adopter" kind of person, so naturally I'm very excited about VR technology.
After I browsed the web on VR Games(and porn) I was immediately sold. There were so many possibilities, so much technology.
I searched for available VR headsets, and there weren't that many. There was the Oculus Rift(fuck that shit), HTC vive and OSVR but they all costed an asston. I had spent $2000 on a VR-ready rig with a GTX 1080 so I couldn't really afford anything.
So I searched around in Chinese websites for cheap VR headsets that I could use, at least for now. Upon searching, the cheapest decent one I could find was this thing. It looked like shit, but who cares, it's $30 for the headset, tracker and controller.
I ordered it from Alibaba and waited for 3 weeks for it to arrive.
When it came, it was shipped in a discreet cardboard box, the headset being surrounded by cheap foam.
When I opened it, it smelled... odd.
It seemed to smell bad, like rotten meat, but sickly sweet at the same time. Sort of like a corpse that was perfumed. It was an enchanting but frightening smell. Making some racist remarks on the build quality of Chinese products, I wiped the thing off with a rag and the smell seemed to get better.
I connected the thing with my rig, then fired up an example game. Turning on the headset, I remarked how surprisingly decent it was, and how smoothly it tracked for $30. I tried using the included controller. It felt like cheap plastic shit, so I replaced it with my PS4 DualShock.
I spent a few minutes getting into the tutorial for the game and getting used to VR. I got a little bit of motion sickness, but it worked well otherwise. I even cleared a few quests of the game without throwing up.
Just then, the screen flickered and showed an image of a little girl, smiling with a teddy bear in her hands.
Except the little girl's eyeballs were gone, and the teddy bear's head was coming off.
I jumped backwards and fell down in fear and surprise. Luckily I fell into my bed so I didn't hurt myself, but I was scared badly. I threw off the HMD on the ground and lay myself on the bed, trying to regain my senses.
After a few minutes, I could get back up. Thinking about what happened, I laughed it off that I was surprised by such a small thing. It obviously was an easter egg in the game, a little joke to surprise users.
But that was enough VR for one day, so I went straight to bed.
The next day, my headset was gone.
It was just... gone. I had left it on the ground the last day.
The tracker and controller was there, but the headset was just gone.
Gone.
I sat on my bed, trying to make sense of my headset disappearing. I was completely sure that I left it on the ground.
I concluded that I had too many beers last night and I went to the kitchen for a hearty morning before work.
I opened the refrigerator for my sausage and eggs, but there was something I did not expect to be in there.
The headset was inside it.
How was this possible? Really, I didn't know. Even if I was that drunk, I would remember coming downstairs to put a fucking VR headset into the refrigerator for some reason.
I was creeped out, so I threw away the headset. Just put it in the apartment recycling bin.
Other than that, the day was pretty normal.
The next day, when I woke up and opened my eyes, everything was black.
Then a shrieking sound came out, and the haunting little girl appeared before my eyes.
Scared senseless, I fell off my bed, bashing my head into my desk. I remember trying to rip off the headset, trying to fight off the girl.
And then I woke up in a hospital.
I was told by my parents that they found me bleeding on the floor.
I was given some time before collecting myself before heading off for a brain scan.
I said to myself that it was all over, there are people with me and I'm safe. After all, I was in a hospital with hundreds of medical personnel. More importantly, my family was by me.
It was one of those scans where you go into a tunnel of machinery to scan your brain.
I headed into the tube, lying down.
There was a monitor in front of me that showed some TV and random content for brain stimulation and boredom.
After a few minutes into the test, the screen blacked out.
The little girl appeared.
It's not over.
Submitted June 25, 2016 at 07:27AM by throwaway19412431 http://ift.tt/28Ud0SU nosleep
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