{"id":4781,"date":"2017-03-07T13:53:32","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/what-it-was-like-to-play-vr-games-after-a-concussion\/"},"modified":"2017-03-07T13:53:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T20:53:32","slug":"what-it-was-like-to-play-vr-games-after-a-concussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/what-it-was-like-to-play-vr-games-after-a-concussion\/","title":{"rendered":"What it was like to play VR games after a concussion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is either the worst time to get a concussion or, order<\/a> the curious journalist inside of me says, nurse<\/a> the best.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A week before I\u2019m set to fly off to San Francisco for GDC, diagnosis<\/a> the annual Game Developers Conference, I lose my footing on a slushy mountain while hiking in NY and slam my head on a rock. I feel the world slow around me as I fall backwards, until my skull bounces off the rock I\u2019d just slipped on and time (and pain) rushes back to me. I make it all the way down the mountain with throbbing temples, a whole lot of whiplash and a fear of rocks \u2014 a minor concussion, fortunately.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A concussion is a type of brain injury \u2014 any kind of which can be tricky. It basically means you’ve rattled and bruised your brain in your head enough that you either pass out, lose memory or, in a less worst case scenario, deal with a terrible, persistent headache coupled with long-lasting sensitivities to light, sound, etc. Depending on how bad a hit you suffered, symptoms can last a few hours or a few months. And there are tons of symptoms. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

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This is either the worst time to get a concussion or, order the curious journalist inside of me says, nurse the best.\u00a0 A week before I\u2019m set to fly off to San Francisco for GDC, diagnosis the annual Game Developers Conference, I lose my footing on a slushy mountain while hiking in NY and slam… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[373,374,370],"tags":[382,380,381,378,379],"class_list":["post-4781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-augmented-reality","category-mixed-reality","category-virtual-reality","tag-immersive","tag-mixed-reality","tag-mr","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t