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The Headset is a brain scanner that creates a digital copy of whomever wears it and thus is responsible for creating Pomni and the other circus members. The copies in the digital circus take the forms of various anthropomorphic and/or humanoid entities. It is used, sometimes unintentionally, to create the brain images that are used to simulate the characters in the Digital Circus.
After scanning, the real person is unaware that anything has happened and may believe the headset to be broken, but the simulated image appears in the Circus with their last memory being that of putting the headset on, often meaning they are left believing it was a Virtual Reality headset they cannot remove. The headset is on its creator Scratch's former desk in an abandoned C&A building.
An early promotional video before the series release[1] presented an advertisement for the headset as an actual virtual reality headset, but this is either non-canonical or does not refer to the specific headset used by the characters.
Appearance
The Headset's face appears to be beige with a large notch on the bottom, with two smaller notches cut beside it. There are two raised lines running down the headset, with each beside and equidistant to the large notch in the center. In the center of the headset's face, there is a laser hazard symbol[2] printed on it, indicating the headset involves hazardous lasers in some way. The headset has brown straps and a pair of thin headphones that may be attached or detached from the headset itself.
The headset does not match the design of any actual virtual reality headset or neural imaging device, and no actual such device makes use of lasers.
In Episode 1, the headset lies beside the computer, both appearing to be rusty/unclean. In Episode 8, they appear in clean condition instead.
History
The headset was developed as a brain scanner by Scratch, who suffered from a brain tumor; it was presumably either part of a plan to preserve himself digitally or to enable the tumor to be detected and treated. At the time it was used, C&A had no way to make use of the output files and they were held in storage. After Caine escaped their sandbox and accessed the file system of the C&A mainframe, he was able to use the files to create simulated humans to provide feedback and responses to his created content.
"PILOT" (Episode 1)
The Headset is mentioned in the PILOT when Pomni struggles to take it off. Jax indicates that the rest of the performers entered the Digital Circus the same way when he sarcastically says "Keep grabbing at it. That worked for all of us." It is also seen briefly when Pomni is going through the exit door's office spaces and stares at the computer, which the Headset lies next to, and when the Episode zooms out to show the real world, the real headset is seen.
"hjsakldfhl" (Episode 8)
The Headset is mentioned in Episode 8, where in a flashback, Ragatha is struggling to take it off right after entering the circus. It is seen once more when Pomni finds the computer inside the exit door, where she briefly stares at the headset before grabbing the computer and leaving.
"Remember" (Episode 9)
After Caine was removed from the circus, a completely lucid Kinger remembers the built-in brain scanner in the headset.
References
- ↑ YouTube: The Amazing Digital Circus Wacky Watch Promo Video (Original) (Time: 0m41s)
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www.iso.org: ISO 7010 - W004, Warning; Laser beam
