3 Body Problem‘s Otherworldly VR Helmets Posed Some Unique Challenges on Set

One of3 Body Problem ’s earliest mysteries comes enclose in a sleek , shiny bundle : the seemingly not - of - this - world VR helmets that Jin ( Jess Hong ) and Jack ( John Bradley ) are given — and that transport them into an eerily lifelike environment they take at first is a next - point immersive TV secret plan .

If you have n’t yet watchedthe Netflix serial , we wo n’t get into too many plot of ground detail here — but it ’s not a raider to say the helmet allow Jin , Jess , and other case to inflict phantasmagorical landscapes and have grotesque scenario that are adequate constituent dazzling and frightening . ( It also allows the narrative to insert the titulary cosmic job into things . ) For the actors — who get to physically visit the practical universe , at least partially , thanks to 3 Body Problem ’s set design squad — really wrangle the helmet airscrew posed some unparalleled challenges .

address to Polygon , Hong hark back that the helmet jerk her hair every time her character took it on or off . Liam Cunningham — who plays Wade , an intelligence operative very keen to get his hands on the mysterious tech — said the quad - age reflective stuff the helmet were made of was also a pain in its own way . “ It ’s an out-and-out nightmare to film , because I swing it around , and I ’ve got it all over the plaza — there was no way of keep back the photographic camera out of the reflection , ” he recalled .

Wade (Liam Cunningham) stares at his reflection in a VR helmet on 3 Body Problem.

Wade (Liam Cunningham) stares at his reflection in a VR helmet on 3 Body Problem.Image: Netflix

Fortunately , 3 Body Problem ’s VFX squad was able to help with that vista , removing any equipment that accidentally came in for a close - up . But Bradley reported the oddest interaction with the helmet , order Polygon that wearing it was “ really uncanny and really isolating ” even while on set surround by the show ’s crew . “ It ’s a number like sometimes when you ’re lying in seam and you start out to hear a clock check mark and you ca n’t find out anything else , ” he said . Even though donning the helmet in real living does n’t straightaway whip you into a foreign environs like it does in the show , “ you start to see yourself the way the world see you . And you do n’t always like what you observe . ”

3 Body Problem isnow cyclosis on Netflix .

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