"Dad, what is VR?"
When Theo left the bedroom, he was stopped in the living room by Little Valentina. She blinked her eyes adorably full of curiosity as she asked that question.
"VR?" Theo looked at her with a smile and ran a hand through her silver hair gently.
"Yes, Brother Teo is looking at a drawing that was talking about VR but didn't explain what it was. Since the brother was so focused on watching, I decided not to ask him." Holding the edge of her little dress, she rocked as she enjoyed Theo's caressing her head.
Looking up, she smiled baring her teeth as she closed her eyes. For a moment she even forgot what she had just asked, but as she remembered, she opened her curious eyes again.
"Mm, VR is Virtual Reality; an interface technology between a user and an operating system through 3D graphics or 360º images whose objective is to create the sensation of presence in a virtual environment different from the real one." Theo explained to her calmly: "Something similar to realistic illusions, only it's not made by people, but by machines."
Little Valentina's eyes sparkle, and she says with a dreamy look: "Wow! Looks cool."
"Serious?" Theo didn't think much about it, as he was able to do it using illusions, but yeah, he was seeing it from his adult point of view, for a kid it might be more romanticized if it's done through machines.
"Yes, it looks interesting." Little Valentina nodded.
The truth is that she grew up with the existence of the illusion created by her dad. Because of that, although I thought it was fantastic, it didn't look as attractive when it was made by machines. Which aroused her curiosity and interest to see this happening.
'Do other children think the same?' Theo touched his chin and looked thoughtful.
"Little Val." Theo smiled at her and said softly, "Can you go get your siblings over here?"
"Yea!" Little Valentina's eyes flickered, then lit up. She was smart enough to understand her dad's motive. She ran away.
Minutes later, Little Valentina returned with all her siblings.
Only Teodoro was missing, as he was in the living room watching anime.
"Tina, why is dad calling us, you know?" Little Noah asked.
Even Little Yui and Little Emma were curious. Not to mention others. Everyone was looking at Little Valentina waiting for her to respond.
"I'm not sure, but they are coming soon, so we'll find out together." Little Valentina responded with a cute smile.
"Uh-huh." They nodded in unison.
Soon the living room was filled with children.
Luckily the living room was very spacious, even with 10+ kids there was still plenty of room left over.
"Dad, what happened?" Little Emma was the first to ask.
Little Yui, who opened her mouth, closed it again. She stared at Theo instead.
"I'm thinking of creating a new toy for you kids," Theo said with a smile as he stood up. He opened his arms and soon created real illusions, so in real illusions, he made a lot of references to virtual reality and how it works.
Curious, Little Yui and her siblings began to see.
The most excited was Little Teodoro to see what it was. "Dad, are you thinking about creating VR?"
"Yes." Theo nodded.
"Yup!" Little Teodoro was so happy that he jumped and turned in the air.
Theo laughed a little. Seeing his son so happy made him happy.
Initially, some of the kids didn't understand what was happening, and when they saw the objective of VR and saw what it was capable of, they clenched fists with their red faces of excitement wanting to see them playing the games it showed in the real illusions of Theo.
Little Yumi blinked her red and gold eyes as she looked at her twin brother so excited. Then he looked at the real illusions and games that appeared on the television-like screens. She could see the people who wore a helmet controlling the characters in the game... She admits that she was also curious and a little interested in playing the game too.
"Brother Teo, is that cool?" Noticing that Little Teodoro seemed more excited than the others, Little Nicolas asked.
He felt a great desire to wear that helmet that was appearing in his dad's real illusions, but he wasn't as strong as Little Teodoro.
"Yeah, I was just watching this in a cartoon, and it looked super fun." Little Teodoro started talking excitedly: "By using VR. You can enter games where you choose how you want to look and class..."
"Class?" Little Sophia interrupted with doubt visible in her eyes.
"Class is like the powers you'll get from playing the game. If you choose Mage, you will use magic, if you choose Warrior, you will use weapons like swords, spears... Archer will use the bow, etc. Depending on the game, it has different classes, very similar to the video games we play."
"Ohh, so it's like this..." Little Sophia began to imagine herself becoming Lara Croft. She really liked this character in the game, if she could control and play as her, it would be super fun!
"I want to play with Catwoman!" Little Valentina said aloud.
"I want to be Zack Fair!" Little Henrique said and imitated the character in the game by creating a greatsword with illusions.
Soon all the kids started saying who they wanted to be in games and started imitating the game characters.
Theo, who saw that their reaction was stronger than he expected, smiled.
'Looks like I have to do this.' Theo thought, but then a question came: 'Should I do this outside and create a gigantic VR Store or just for my kids?'
If he did it outside, his kids could also interact with different people in games. Which could provide more fun. Even the children at the orphanage could go and have fun...
'If I create a store, you can also create one just for children to play at home and be able to interact with others who play in the store, yes?' When he thought so, Theo was almost set on doing it.
However, he still needed to talk to his wives first.
Even though he knew they would agree since, like him, they would want to create something for the kids to have fun with.
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