My first VR injury was painful and all my fault

If you get a booboo in virtual reality, you get a booboo in real life.

During my 7.5-hour virtual reality livestream yesterday, I sustained my first injury while wearing a head-mounted display. I booted up the game Unseen Diplomacy, which is an excellent room-scale experiment that developer Tirangular Pixels originally built for the National Videogame Arcade in the United Kingdom. Now, it is out on Steam for just $3 (it’s over very quickly but easily worth that much money). Unseen Diplomacy puts you in the role of a special agent who must break out of a series of rooms by solving puzzles in your environment. My problem came when I crawled through a ventilation shaft that was on the boundaries of my play area — the same area that contained the table I was too lazy to move. As a crawled through the vent, my hand grazed against the edge of a table and scraped off a chunk of my skin.