Negative-G - Six Flags Over Texas 2016

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The Shock Wave / New Revolution Virtual Reality Rollercoaster at Six Flags Over Texas, Arlington, Texas

What happens is when you get into Shock Wave's station you are fitted with a virtual reality helmet, a process that can take five to ten minutes.

You have a VR helmet with a Samsung Galaxy cell phone for a screen. That has black leather padding to cushion the helmet. Then you have straps that go around your head, over the top of your head and under you chin along with a lanyard that goes around your neck. All of that except the lanyard is strapped tightly to your skull giving you a very claustrophobic feeling.

The helmets need targets to be able to tell where they are when you look around as the movements are synched to your head movements so there are these little Six Flags logos with bar codes around them on the seat in front of you. If the front seat is your favorite seat you can't have the "New Revolution" experience there as there are no targets ahead of you so that is strictly a no VR seat.

After being fitted for a helmet which took five minutes, being seated and had restraints checked which took five minutes and then had every helmet checked to make sure it was secure which took another five minutes (note all of these five minute processes add up) we were finally out of the station on our first virtual reality ride.

In our virtual coaster world we were being taken up and out of a massive hangar in preparation for an epic battle with aliens as Shock Wave slowly made its way up the lift.