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One of 3 Body Problem’s earliest mysteries comes wrapped in a sleek, shiny package: 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 assume at first is a next-level immersive video game.