I was excited to be able to use the various VR goggles in class last Wednesday, especially having never done anything similar.  All of them, including the most basic, were still able to immerse me in the area depicted very well, especially because the headphones and various sounds helped to ignore the "real world" more fully while I was going through the virtual one.  What I found, though, was that the stories of those worlds were basic at most, and usually non-existent.  I started with the Samsung Gear VR, and watched the Cirque de Soleil performance, which was fascinating, but included no story to it; later, I played Temple Run on the same device, which I actually found more interesting because of the impact my actions could have, intertwined with the ability to look around and see the monsters chasing me.  The Enterprise bridge still had no story to it (at least that I got to see, though I heard the Borg talking to someone else afterwards), and the spaceflight on the DK2 was merely an open-world experience, without any plot.  I am sure that there have been stories created for VR already, and look forward to trying them, but this felt more like an experience of just seeing what the VR world could be like, without any of the stories that we could tell in it.  After testing it out, though, I had a lot of ideas as to what could be fun to try out with the system, as well as dozens of video games that I have played which I think would be amazing to try in this system.

Looking through Oculus Share, I found a pretty large variety of applications that I would like to try, including a visually stunning short film/exploration called "Senza Peso" and a procedurally generated sci-fi adventure called "4089: Ghost Within."  However, the one that I would like to try most, because of the innovation present in it, is called "Black Hat Oculus," which is a cooperative experience with one player inside a virtual reality and another player outside of it, each of which can see different things.