I am under water. Still standing, but under water. Deep in the ocean, actually. Schools of tiny fish are swimming by. Rays float overhead, just under the surface. A whale saunters over. Is it deep enough for a whale but not too deep for the light to penetrate down to the deck of the sunken ship on which I was standing? I don’t know. And I don’t care.
I slowly, carefully wander over to the edge of the deck of the ship. Close, but not too close. The sea floor is a long way down, and the railing not all that high. I don’t want fall off.
Wait. Where am I again?
It was, to say the very least, an odd experience.
It’s almost not fair to write about Vive, the virtual reality system that HTC and software company Valve announced here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. “You have to experience it” was the line the folks who make the thing kept telling us leading up to the announcement.
And they were right. But I’ll do my best.