With his hands firmly gripped on the steering wheel and feet prepared to hit the gas or brake pedals, James Baty, 14, smiled with a sense of certainty as he looked outward into a virtual realm full of traffic lights, stop signs and oncoming cars.
Seated within a virtual reality driving simulator Friday while wearing an Oculus headset, the Greenville High School freshman soon saw his confident smile morphing into a grin of embarrassment as he found himself off the road, in a field, searching for a way to bring his vehicle back onto a city street.
