What Ever Happened to Virtual Reality? 431
bergeron76 writes "It seems like it's been ages since I heard of any advances in "Virtual Reality" technology. Was Virtual Reality just hype? Are there any new or existing projects that have made any significant inroads (aside from the first-person shooter games)?
Is total virtual immersion a worthless persuit / dead industry? If not, what are the bottlenecks that are delaying it?"
What Ever Happened to Virtual Reality? (Score:4, Funny)
Better Than Life (Score:1, Funny)
Easy Answer (Score:5, Funny)
What do you mean? (Score:5, Funny)
Actually (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, the irony. I love my job.
- The ArchitectRIP (Score:4, Funny)
What do you mean? (Score:5, Funny)
Buh-doom-boom-Sis.
Re:What do you mean? (Score:3, Funny)
Virtual Reality (Score:4, Funny)
Re:come on.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What Ever Happened to Virtual Reality? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What do you mean? (Score:2, Funny)
We don't need it (Score:4, Funny)
Tin Hats on! (Score:5, Funny)
To keep suspicions at bay, advances in VR were removed from this new reality.
It's hard on the US people, but that was the only way the world could keep their growing nuclear arsenal at bay. On the bright side, GWB is just a bad dream (one they will never wake up from).
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Re:Not hyped much (Score:2, Funny)
Re:No consumer porn applications (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What do you mean? (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, it just got cancelled [imdb.com]
I don't get it... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Eleven Reasons Why Virtual Reality Stalled (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Too risky? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:come on.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Easy Answer (Score:4, Funny)
I agree. I don't know why anyone would want to hook into a first person sci-fi snoozer where you play Keanu Reeves.
Re:No consumer porn applications (Score:3, Funny)
That's true. Have you seen what $30 hookers look like in New Jersey?
SHHHH! don't tell him (Score:3, Funny)
Re:One major bottleneck: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Tin Hats on! (Score:3, Funny)
Initially they tried to make it a utopia, but after Al Gore won the election, no one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost.
Re:come on.. (Score:3, Funny)
Have you LOOKED at 98% of the posts here?