OtherWorld London

OtherWorld London

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OtherWorld is a London VR attraction. Unlike many other VR experiences that just use off-the-shelf games you can buy at home, they have their own free-roam VR island with in-game portals to sixteen unique virtual reality experiences.

You also get your own immersion pod – a enclosed room which has dynamic heat lamps, fans, and rumble effects. While you walk around in the VR island, you actually feel the heat on your head from the direction of the in-game sun via the real-world based heat lights that surround you. Fans create island breezes, rumble surfaces create unstable ground, and other effects. Hopefully it survives covid as they opened right before the lockdown.

SquareOne TV and Mathnet

SquareOne TV and Mathnet

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When I was a kid, I remember SquareOne TV very fondly. I even got the weekly activity books (which nobody seems to remember or mention besides myself) and remember being so excited when they came. It really turned me on to math and eventually computers.

Here’s one of the better resource collections for SquareOne. But if you want to check out some episodes, you can see some of them on YouTube:

More Polybius

More Polybius

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Polybius is a great urban legend that got its start in Portland. There’s lots of fodder thrown around about it, but The Polybius Conspiracy appeared to be a real investigation on the subject. They even have a lot of interviews from local people. It turns out, it was COMPLETELY FALSE and their main character was an actor.

None of that was disclosed. It is one more reason you should be very weary of documentaries as information sources. Evidence shows you should NOT be putting faith in documentaries any more than an editorial opinion piece.

If you want a little better coverage, this is also a good video about the urban legend: