Bab 2124: Players and Spectators Making Merry

The Star Wars players who were piloting the fighter planes from Earth had also been on shift.

There were three shifts, and players 'landed' every 30 minutes and rested for an hour before getting back online.

Professional medical staff was on hand at all times to handle any players who exhibited physiological symptoms from being 'too engrossed' in the game.

In the VR gaming halls, the players gesticulated and hit the special punching pad under the control wheel every now and then — in the past, many players who lost would directly smash the control equipment out of anger.

Even though everybody knew that a VR control device was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that they would have to pay thousands or tens of thousands of dollars if they broke something, they really couldn't help it.