{"id":163686,"date":"2025-11-05T05:40:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/163686\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T05:40:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T05:40:09","slug":"chloe-finds-a-hobby-virtual-reality-gaming-and-a-cocktail-making-robot-called-toni-ive-stepped-into-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/163686\/","title":{"rendered":"Chlo\u00eb finds a hobby: Virtual reality gaming and a cocktail-making robot called Toni \u2013 I\u2019ve stepped into the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Chlo\u00eb McPolin finds her inner Power Ranger (sadly, not the pink one) as she battles zombies at Sandbox VR on Dublin\u2019s Nassau Street\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chlo\u00eb McPolin with friend Juliette Prince (left) at Sandbox VR on Nassau Street, Dublin. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/24f67cbc-99ac-4915-9ada-2f52093c5ac2.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chlo\u00eb McPolin with friend Juliette Prince (left) at Sandbox VR on Nassau Street, Dublin. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Hobby comrades, this week on my quest to find a hobby I decided to venture back indoors. Lately, everyone seems to be talking about virtual reality (VR) \u2013 the supposed next big thing in gaming. I\u2019d always imagined VR as more of a stag-do activity than a hobby, but apparently I was mistaken. It turns out VR is being hailed as the future of gaming itself. To the uninitiated, VR makes players feel like they are inside the game rather than just watching it on a screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">To be frank, I have never been much of a gamer. Part of me always thought it was a bit of a nerdy hobby. As a child I was glued to my Nintendo DS and Wii, but beyond that it was never really something I kept up. Nonetheless, I want to embrace what this \u2018new era\u2019 of gaming has in store. A pal of mine tells me that Sandbox VR on Nassau Street is the place to go. I arrange to come on a Saturday and see what this futuristic malarkey is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chlo\u00eb McPolin finds her inner Power Ranger (sadly, not the pink one) as she battles zombies at Sandbox&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[35045,18,19,17,2519,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-163686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-chloe-mcpolin","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-review-magazine","13":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115495490253258858","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}