All of us on Spark have gotten to work on stories about virtual reality. There was our story about virtual reality phone booths, a VR tour of Chernobyl, using virtual reality for journalism, and even as a form of therapy. The weirdest might have been the virtual reality version of James Joyce's Ulysses.

But even though we had all spent a lot of time talking about it, only a couple of us had actually had the chance to try VR ourselves.

So when the opportunity presented itself, we jumped at it!