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When worlds collide (and squidgy things from other demotions try and eat your face).

Dimensions are tricky things, one moment your happily working on your experimental teleportation device, the next you’ve caused a resonance cascade scenario and the residents of a parallel universe are advancing up your patio.

So before the Arrow head project start firing “different” atoms at each other, here are my fave dimensional disasters.

Arrow head project; The Mist

This Stephen King short story has been the inspiration for a number of comics, games and movies (including a full movie adaptation all its own). 

A secret government facility across the lake from a small American town (of course it’s in Maine!!), local gossip has it that there are experiments with matter and “different” atoms going on inside.

After a huge storm, a thick white mist rolls across the lake (into the wind- which is weird in its self)- inside the mist are a host of other dimensional creatures that want to eat, melt or sting every human they can get this tentacles on.

The Black Mesa incident- Half-life.

We all know how it is, your boss is pushing for you beat that big deadline at work, your late in and your co-workers really rub it in – so you cut a few corners to save time.

This would be all fine and dandy was it not for your boss being the overseer of a secret black site, your job being to analyse crystals of the alien persuasion and cutting corners resulting in the dimension of Xen spewing its flesh eating, acid spitting other worldly denizens all over the whole facility- Grab your crow bar, you’re going to need it!  

Another World (out of this world if you’re a Megadrive fan).

So far we have talked about beings that have fallen into our dimension, however what happens when we get sucked into someone else’s back yard?

Prof Lester found out only too well why it’s not a good idea to run your large Hedron collider during a thunder storm.

After his lab is struck by lightning, he, his desk, and a large chunk of his office’s wall and floor are ripped from our world and deposited unceremoniously onto an alien world.

This other world seems intent on killing him from the moment he arrives- his desk is dragged to the bottom of the lake where he materialises, he is stung by caterpillars that kill, chased by giant alien big cats and finally shot by the locales as he tries to communicate with them, and this is in the first 3 mins of the game!

 
 

 

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Google cardboard (or flatpack VR, or the maketrix…i'll stop now)

Ever since I watched “Tron” and  “The lawnmower man” in the early 90’s I’ve wanted to have virtual reality at home, not the migraine inducing virtual boy, nor the over hyped fail of 3d TV. No, I wanted actual 3d virtual worlds to explore.

Well that dream is nearly here, in the next 12 months we should be able to get our hands on Sony’s project Morpheus, face books oculus rift and a whole new world of other headsets and visors that promise to give us access to our own personal holodeck experiences.

But for now we have to wait- unless you spend big bucks on a developer kit.

Or so I thought. It turns out that all you need is a smart phone, cardboard box, some glue and a pair of lenes from eBay, you can build your own fully functional VR headset!

Having found this out i went straight to google’s google cardboard website and downloaded and printed the pdf.

While i waited for the lenes I ordered from eBay to arrive i got a head start by building the headset itself. I assembled all the tools needed to make this bit of high tech meets low tech kit.

I started by cutting out the template and gluing it to a flattened cardboard box, this took allot longer than i planned,  the tabs and hole were fiddly and I nearly sliced off my fingers on several occasions.

After an hour waiting for the glue to set and a further hour swearing at the god of cardboard for letting such a complex and exasperating card folding monstrosity to come into existence, I finally had my full cut out and ready template, now I just needed to fold it , put tab A into slot B, and slot in my old iPhone 4S and would be away!!

How wrong I was (I’m married so should be used to being wrong by now). Getting the bugger to actually slot into place was a nightmare- the holes don’t line up, the tabs are to small and glue and tape wont keep the thing together!

After a quick game of bloodborne to calm me down (in hind sight not the best game to relax to) I tried again and with a bit of creative adjustment (and more swearing) I finally got the thing to look like the web site pics…sort of.

Now I just have to await the lenses to arrive and I can enter the matrix!! or more likely look like a mental with box stuck to his face- either way I’m happy with the result so far…now where did I leave my light cycle?