Everyone wants to be a Jedi. Everyone. Shut up, yes you do. Even Star Trek nerds can't deny the fact that the Jedi are way cooler than anything in the Trekker universe. And a lightsaber is a better weapon than phasers or...whatever those things the Klingons use.
Point is, if you can be a Jedi, always be a Jedi. And now you can be, thanks to the Oculus Rift! If you don't know what that is, then you probably DON'T wanna be a Jedi. You're probably sitting there in "Spirk" pj's drinking Earl Grey tea with thirty tabs open to Gorn fan fictions.
"Spirk" is the combined names of Spock and Kirk. Just FYI. Cause it's funny. Or gross, more like. Moving on.
So the Oculus Rift has a new...game...or simulation, I guess. It's a Jedi training simulator where you use lightsaber(s) to deflect laser bolts from a remote, like Luke in A New Hope. It's pretty cool, because Jedi. Just, because Jedi. This is what I'm talking about:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b1ycwQIG7c
This guy would die SO HARD if he were an actual Jedi. Like this guy:
So except for his total ineptitude at lightsaber-ing, this is pretty sweet. I wonder what else they'll add to it? Maybe some hand motions to make it like you're using the force?
Or maybe a virtual train set to build in your parents back yard? You can tell everyone in the game that they moved in WITH you so you could help them out "due to their old age," but it won't explain why your 36 year old brother "moved in" with them.
I'm a huge nerd for this sort of thing though. I'd probably dress up beforehand and try to get in character. You know, like a real Jedi:
Yes, the force is strong with this one. And the cholesterol. Master Bacon.
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What I don't like is the fact that you're he's only doing it with one hand. I guess you could grab something and pretend it was a hilt so the Oculus mimics that movement, maybe. But I'd prefer to hold it like Luke does in ANH. Y'know, actually hold it like a lightsaber.
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