A Seattle-area man has now upped the ante on creative engagement proposals, taking the old-world practice into virtual reality.
Chandler Murch, who works at Valve, invited his girlfriend Kelly Tortorice to his workplace to supposedly check out some new scenes in the VR headset.
“So there I was, typical day…on a sunken ship deck; fixing robots; painting three-dimensional fire; walking through the Alps; and then suddenly, a virtual engagement ring started floating my way,” Tortorice posted to Facebook. “Chandler told me to grab it. Then told me to take off my headset, and there he really was, on one knee, with a real ring. It wasn’t imaginary anymore.”
According to the Ars Technica, Murch was “holding a trackable HTC Vive wand controller, which she saw through her headset as a ring floating toward her in mid-air…She then took the headset off to see Murch on one knee, where she’d seen the virtual ring floating, with both the wand and a real engagement ring in his hands.”
Thankfully, she said yes to the “hilarious and fun surprise,” so this virtual reality story has a delightful ending.
The HTC Valve headset isn’t out yet — the site says it’s due holiday 2015 — but the site is pretty loaded with some awesome views and info to get VR fans jacked.
Take at a look at HTC’s YouTube video below: