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Virtual Virtual Reality is a VR game where you jump into different realities by putting on ever-increasing numbers of headsets. It's really short, though.

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Elevator Dialogue#

The elevator is an often-visited section of the backstage area, and at one point it was apparently intended to be sentient and have a speaking role. The only hint that the elevator is sentient in the final game is a single line from Bernice: "Elevator told me all about you love cutlet." There are various unused scripts leftover from this: ElevatorFloorSpecialPlace.cs, (handles a floor that was cut in the final game) ElevatorTalker.cs, and ElevatorDialogue.cs (all talking NPCs have two scripts like these).

It should be noted that while all dialogue and text in the game is available in 9 languages, the elevator dialogue does not have any transcription or translation in the translation keys file.

Dialogue

Filename

Transcription

elevator_016_keepLooking

Keep looking... I know one of those headsets leads to the archives.

elevator_019_noClearance2

Nope, you don't have clearance for that. If you feel like it you should go talk to Bernice in the archives. She might have a pass to HR.

Elevator_InterruptedByPhone

Oh, okay.

elevator_020_chazPhone

Yup, that phone just calls Chaz. I thought about warning you but, whatever.

Elevator_ActPRSequence

PR coming up! I mean, it's sort of pointless. Let's not go there.

Elevator_BoidServicingSequence

Do you resent your freedom? Sometimes it's nice to be told what to do. Up or down. Up, or, down. It's quite... simple. You're not moving, you're just sitting there, on top of a big gaping hole. That's pretty much the life. Next.

Elevator_CafeteriaSequence

Oh are you hungry? I'm only hungry in the starving pit of my soul. Let's move on!

Elevator_ChazGameRoomSequence

Alright, here we go. Gonna play some games. Play some games with Chaz. Actually, you're already playing. It's an escape game. It's called life. Let that one sink in.

Elevator_CloudSequence.ogg

I was expecting new, exciting, softer. This floor is as solid and banal as the rest. I'm just gonna sit here f

Elevator_Don'tHaveHRClearence

Oh, HR. You don't have clearance for that. No biggie. It's pretty boring. Maybe we can go somewhere else. Or just sit here.

Elevator_GoToArchives

Actually, Chaz closed off access to the archives last quarter. You can still get there though. Just print a new headset from the old Mark. 2 Faceplate Stamper.

Elevator_Welcome

Oh, hello. Are you going up or down.

Elevator_GreetingReturnFromArchive

Oh, hi again.

Elevator's "Special Place"#

In the final game, there are four elevator floors: FLOOR_PANOPTICON, FLOOR_GAMEROOM, FLOOR_ENTRY, and FLOOR_DOORWAYS. A fifth one is unused in the game files, a room filled with beach balls which the elevator would tell you about and bring you to. Presumably, when the elevator's speaking role was cut there was no way to explain this floor, so it was cut as well. The order and inclusion of the lines below is a guess at what the Elevator was intended to have said about this floor. The prefab has ElevatorFloorSpecialPlace.cs attached to it, which can disable an invisible collider, causing the beach balls to spill out of the room.

Dialog

Filename

Transcription

Elevator_2SpecialPlaceLeadUp

Okay, so basically all these floors suck. There's only one floor in this whole system that has even a shred of joy. Let me take you to my thinking spot.

Elevator_SpecialPlaceReaction

Storage? They turned it into storage? Seriously, this has got to be a joke.

elevator_018_beachBalls

Beach balls? This is how it all ends, beach balls? Maybe someone should complain to Chaz. I'd go to HR myself, but ... meh.

Elevator_ruinsEverything

Chaz ruins everything. You know what, I hope you do make it to HR and mess shit up. Go see Bernice in the archives, she might have an old pass to HR.

Other Unused Dialogue#

This dialogue does not follow the naming scheme that the used and elevator dialogue does, and was manually sorted out from the sound effects. None of this has translation keys. Some of these files contain pieces of dialogue that did end up in the final. Curiously, 1pluckHim through 15Boundaries are all sequentially numbered, but there is no "11" audio file.

Dialog

Filename

Transcription

Possible Context

1pluckHim

Pluck him!

An encouragement to kill Hernandez.

2pluckHim

Pluck him!

3pluckHim

Pluck him!

4pluckHim

Pluck him mercilessly!

5pluckHim

Pluck him!

6pluckHim

Pluck him!

7pluckHim

Pluck him!

8pluckHim

Pluck him!

9pluckHim

Pluck him!

10pluckHim

Pluck him!

12TightSpot

I mean, I'm in a tight spot, Bee. My nonexistent hands are tied behind my back. I've got clients to think about, recruitment that needs my attention, I am extremely busy!

Chaz chiding you while in the prison scene.

13VeryBusy

Very busy!

14Lollygagging

And you're just out there lollygagging around. Doity doi, like you're on some freaking lame-ass holiday in Cancun sipping rum out of coconuts with a curly straw!

15Boundaries

Well guess what! This isn't Cancun! This is work! Work has boundaries! This is a boundary. So. No more! Out! Go! Follow the rules!

Chaz_hr_core_HanPo

HanPo! No! There goes wings night!

Intended for the boss battle, these would play when you pull out a core.

Chaz_hr_core_Larry

Larry! No! Larry was my surrogate dad...

mInsist

*sigh* I'm making a tiny note in your file. Still, I must insist that you hold down the app button and exit the lava pit.

Unused version of the dialogue for taking too long to teleport in the opening.

mSequenceIntro

Let's practice teleporting! Trivia: Movement training "ow ow hot hot" was modified from a tag game played at the 2015 company retreat.

mTeleoportedIntoLava

Close enough!

ThatOnesTheBest

That one's the best.

Dialogue spoken by Eliza. Possibly intended to be attached to the different voice line seashells used for exposition.

ThisIsMyFavoritePart

This is my favorite part.

ThisIsTheMostImportantOne

This is the most important one.

IFeelLikeThisDescribes

I feel like this describes Chaz.

Vesuvius_Richard

Vesuuuviuss!

Advertising blurbs for Latitude's long dead virtual retreats. Eliza speaks the equivalents of these in the final game.

VRBalloonTour_Richard

Imagine, floating serenely above the Earth's most stunning panorama, the Grand Canyon. Strap on your headset, and take to the skies!

MermansKiss_Bodie

Dive into romance at our deliciously remote Merman's Kiss. Try our lotion slathering simulator on all three settings.

CosmicJourney_Richard

VR! The final frontier! Uncharted galaxies, delivered right into your living room. Put on your headset, make you the center of your you-niverse!

Miscellaneous#

"YouWouldNotBelieveYourEyes", containing some grass and some firefly particles
  • In the main menu, the object holding the firefly particles is named "YouWouldNotBelieveYourEyes". This is a reference to "Fireflies" by Owl City.
  • In VVR_UNDERHUB_06_TENDEROFFICE_CREDITS (the hidden bonus credits), there is a credits section for Google that is hidden on other releases of the game. (Virtual Virtual Reality was first released for Google Daydream.)
  • In VVR_UNDERHUB_03_FAKECOMPUTER (the fake Windows XP background), there is quite a lot of hilly geometry that has been turned off.
  • In VVR_LVL_JAIL (the jail Chaz puts you in when you are caught), there are four giant headsets on the walls, all disabled. These can be seen in-game in the reflection map used in that, and other, levels.
  • There are, for some reason, some disabled clouds in the underwater scene seen towards the start of the game.
  • There are more disabled hills (with broken shaders this time) in the wind turbine level, as well as a second, much larger skybox with a different type of shader that is disabled.

Trivia#

The text-to-speech voice for the Human Union can be found here as the English "Ava" voice.

References#


  1. Steam listing↩︎