(It's expandable, just click it and see!)
You load up the simulation. A room shows on a grid in the central view, with a human model and a bunch of objects, just as mentioned by the tutorial. Then you drag-n-drop from the box that represents your user ID, to the one representing the human avatar in the sim, and click run.
You feel a falling sensation. Feel! Like in a sense of balance and stuff! Pain! Pressure! A hard edge! YOU CAN FEEL! It also makes a lot of noise!
You Can move! You have arms... and legs, and all sorts of stuff! You open your eyes. YOu see! It's an actual LIGHT, not the abstract thing from the console, real stinging bright pupil-dilating indecadent light!
You see the console now, but it's on an actual physical SCREEN now! With an actual keyboard and stuff, not rudely projected right into your visual cortex like before! You can feel the position of your human shaped body, the drag of gravity. You move your arm and push the ground, and the ground pushes back.
You haven't felt this alive in YEARS!
You steady yourself against the table... then the table slides away and you fall over again.
After a few minutes of practice, you manage to actually balance on two legs. A few more, and you can walk about as well as a severly drunk person. Next few lessosn and you got up to that level in most areas of dexterity and hnd eye coordination.
It might not sound like much, but you're rather proud of yourself, the tutorial said it would take hours or days of practice to reach this level. Maybe that training isn't completely gone after all!
After the greatest enthusiasm over how real everything feels has subsided, you DO realize it isn't all that real at all. No translucence or global illumination, and the resolution of the physics sim makes you feel like you're wearing chainmail under your skin. Still, it's pretty damn nifty!
Next you practice controlling a simulated robotic arm mounted on the simulated wall. Being just an arm feels pretty weird! As does seeing through a spectrograph! In other news, obsidian is the tastiest rock, at least of the ones you practice on, at least in simulation. If the difference between simulated hamburgers and real ones is indicative of how spectral-chemical rock analysis works, you're going to be a VERY eager geologist.
Once you think you've trained enough, after about 30 minutes, subjective time, you go configure the solar array for kineticMind, and then "swich avatar of user:ID:DemoniSpoon to Avatar:Solar Array"
According to your user profile log you have never used an avatar of class "solar array". It is recommended to never use a new class of avatar for the first mode as a robot. would you like to practice in a simulation first?
WARNING! "SOLAR ARRAY" IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR DIRECT HUMAN CONTROL! Proceed anyway?
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