Friends Help You Defuse a Virtual Bomb in Nerve-Wracking 3D Game

"Now, just cut the red wire...!"

If you're a fan of spy movies, you've undoubtedly seen a trained secret agent disarm a bomb thanks to instructions from someone who can't actually see what they're working on. That premise — of cooperation despite everyone not having the same information — is the heart of experimental game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes.

The game tasks one player wearing an Oculus Rift virtual-reality headset with disarming the bomb. That player uses Razer Hydra motion controls to rotate the bomb, clip wires and press buttons

However, he or she has no idea how to disarm the bomb; that information is in the hands of the other players, who must leaf through manuals to figure out how to disarm it. Since the bomb is randomly generated, players reading the instructions must determine the type of bomb before offering a solution to the Oculus Rift wearer. Read more...