Kids destroy adults in Major League Baseball's VR Home Run Derby

Kids destroy adults in Major League Baseball's VR Home Run Derby

6 years ago
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https://www.pcgamer.com/kids-destroy-adults-in-major-league-baseballs-vr-home-run-derby/

Major League Baseball hosted the finals of its VR Home Run Derby today at the All-Star FanFest to see who could hit the most virtual dingers. You can watch the nearly three hour long event here on YouTube, or maybe just skip around and see a few seconds of it to get the idea. Played in MLB Home Run Derby VR (which is on Steam, currently with mixed reviews) the event saw a kid named Coop versus a kid named Chuck—two very good baseball names—make it to the finals. Chuck won.

It was weird for me, for a moment at least, to see full grown adults stepping in against some very young kids in the derby. But then I remembered it's a videogame, where kids play against adults all the time (and often trounce them). And since it's VR, it's got nothing to do with height or weight or power, because you're swinging a fake bat at a virtual ball. I guess it's no surprise the kids utterly destroyed the adults. One grown-up named Doug was actually wearing batting gloves. In a VR baseball game. I guess he was taking it very seriously, since a trophy and tickets to the All-Star Game were on the line.