Can Nostalgia Keep You in VR for 40 Minutes?

When Thomas Wolfe wrote "you can't go home again," he clearly hadn't tried to do it in virtual reality--because right now, my body is sitting in an office in midtown Manhattan, but my brain is back in my childhood bedroom in Ohio. There's a robot that responds to voice commands; a toy model of Castle Grayskull from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe; Transformers strewn around, in ridiculous positions. If the couch wasn't a slightly different kind of 1980s tacky from my own, I'd swear I had indeed proven Wolfe wrong. This homecoming came courtesy of Miyubi, the latest VR experience from Felix & Paul Studios. It's a live-action piece about a boy who gets a toy robot named Miyubi for his birthday in 1982--except you're the robot.