NEW YORK — Within the VR headset, I look down and see a home plate and two batter’s boxes, as one would expect in any old baseball video game, but when I look right, I see the aquarium embedded into the backstop of Marlins Park. Looking left toward the outfield, the infamous monstrosity circus prop home run sculpture is digitally rendered in remarkable detail.
When I glance down at the pitcher, he begins his windup and throws a batting practice pitch. With a snap of my hands and crack of the bat, the ball follows the trajectory of any number of Giancarlo Stanton blasts from the past few years into the left field bleachers, albeit my blast nearly hit a circular “2x” target that would have doubled my score.