[MOC] Adventures in VR

[Oky]

Hi everyone. This is my entry for the Build Your Hobby contest on LEGO Ideas. If you like this, you can help it become a future GWP set by giving it your vote here. Anyway, let's talk about it!

My non-Lego hobby is VR gaming. I love virtual reality because it allows me to be anyone, go anywhere and do anything! I can literally step into the shoes of a daring space hero, explore strange new worlds, fight alien monsters, and find epic treasures, all from the comfort of my own home!

All you need is a VR headset which is what I have recreated here.

But this is no ordinary life-size headset. If you open up the front, there is a whole vibrant virtual world inside, just one example of the kind of imaginative places that one of these devices can take you!

It includes an astronaut minifig so that you can play out an exciting VR space adventure.

You can find the extra life behind the waterfall.

Discover the Easter egg hidden in the cave.

Fight the monster and retrieve the red ruby!

Best of all, this VR headset actually kind of works! It's hard to convey in pictures, but if you look through the lenses on the back of the headset, you can see through the eyes of the hero just like you would in a real VR game!

This entry has been selected as one of the finalists, so again, if you like it, I would appreciate it if you'd click here and give it your vote to help it become a GWP set! And let me know what you think in the comments!

Thanks,

Oky

[Elysiumfountain]

Wonderfully done! I love all the cool little details, and especially the fact that you can look through it. Voted! :) 

[Oky]

On 8/12/2025 at 6:02 AM, Elysiumfountain said:

Wonderfully done! I love all the cool little details, and especially the fact that you can look through it. Voted! :) 

Thank you! 

[The Reader]

Voted! It‘s a cool build with a whole story inside. I really like it. 

[Astatine-209]

This is very slick, especially the fact that you can look through it!

Competition aside, have you tried putting in two identical scenes, side by side? I think it would create the illusion that the headset is using stereoscopy, when viewed from a few centimetres away, like real VR headsets!

[Oky]

On 8/16/2025 at 12:31 PM, The Reader said:

Voted! It‘s a cool build with a whole story inside. I really like it. 

Thank you!

 

On 8/16/2025 at 1:05 PM, Astatine-209 said:

This is very slick, especially the fact that you can look through it!

Competition aside, have you tried putting in two identical scenes, side by side? I think it would create the illusion that the headset is using stereoscopy, when viewed from a few centimetres away, like real VR headsets!

Thanks! Very interesting suggestion, although it would be hard to pull off. For one thing, they would have to be  pretty small scenes that fit within a 6x6 space to fit in front of each “lens”. The other challenge is that for the stereoscopy to work, there would have to be some offset in the scenes to give the 3D effect. But it’s worth a try, so I might experiment with this!