The HTC Vive headset will be at Noel Leeming Queen St for the next two weeks for the public to test. One minute I'm standing in a small area in Noel Leeming Queen St with a tech guru explaining the strange headgear I'm about to put on. The HTC Vive has been designed to be more interactive than earlier models. Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playOne of the strangest experiences, similar to how I imagine Alice felt while chasing the white rabbit through Wonderland, comes from using the latest HTC Vive virtual reality headset. Tests using another company's virtual reality product, Oculus Rift, put subjects on the edge of a cliff before telling them to jump, but despite knowing they were safe and their reality was merely being distorted, the majority could not move.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 23, 2016 09:45 UTC