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For the last month or so, Scott Kellum — a VR enthusiast and Vox Media's senior front-end designer — has been inviting people over to try out the Oculus Rift. The first time I tried the headset was well over two years ago, and admittedly I haven't used it but once or twice since. So late last week, I re-entered the virtual world by way of an off-white desk chair in the middle of Scott's living room.
I ran through the usual motley crew of demos — sitting in a chair as civilization rises and falls around me, sitting in a mouse-sized roller coaster set up around a studio apartment, and "standing" (virtually) while Totoro steals my umbrella and leaves me in the pouring rain in the woods.
But what I really wanted was a game. And that's when we played Super Smash Bros. Melee. As in, the GameCube version from 2001 — but through the Oculus Rift.
Holy shit.
Let's back up a second and explain how this came to be. Dolphin is an open-source emulator that lets people play GameCube and Wii games on a PC or Mac — in HD, no less, something the actual GameCube and Wii aren't capable of. The experience is imperfect — an emulator works by trying to recreate custom hardware
