Man spends an entire week eating, sleeping and working in virtual reality

A bold pioneer has spent an entire week in virtual reality – eating, sleeping and working with a VR headset on.

Jak Wilmot spent 168 consecutive hours in VR – using fitness apps to work out, and a simulation of a natural environment to relax.

He used VR chat apps to talk to friends.

Naturally, he’s an enthusiast – the co-founder of VR content studio Disrupt VR – and streamed the entire gruelling experience on Twitch.

He said, ‘This is quite possibly the dumbest thing I’ve ever done, but welcome to a week in the future.’

One of the headsets he used had a camera built in so he could ‘see’ the environment (although not with his own eyes), and he blacked out his windows so that he could not be affected by daylight, he said.

When he ‘came back’ to reality, Wilmot said that the one thing he had missed about the real world was ‘the graphics are so good.’

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Wilmot said, ‘VR is stepping into the shoes of someone else, or stepping into a spaceship and talking to friends.

‘It’s very easy to find your tribe, to make friends, to communicate with others through a virtual landscape, where its no longer through digital window but actually being there with them. To me that’s what VR is – connection.’