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10143 Re: What could go wrong?
   ...virtual reality porn can give you whiplash! 		ribit   6TH POPE   22 Dec 2020
 10:56 PM
10138 Re: What could go wrong?
   they can keep it. I will have no use for it... 		micro   6TH POPE   22 Dec 2020
 6:43 PM

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Re: What could go wrong?

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 22 Dec 20 5:32 PM
Msg. 10136 of 60008
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Over the weekend, my son called me over to his computer to show me something one of his on-line buddies is doing that Joey thinks is cool. For good reason - it IS cool.

What I saw was the friend's bedroom with a Windows display front and center. The friend's hands reached forward into the video and began manipulating icons and doing other things on the screen. What's so interesting about that? How about that the computer screen wasn't real. It was virtual. The friend was wearing a Microsoft headset so that it looked completely real to him and to those of us who were on the call with him.

Pretty neat! In fact, I could see through the virtual computer screen as it was slightly translucent. I don't know if the friend could as well. He said that the screen appeared solid and crisp to him. He also said that he didn't come away with any mental afflictions after wearing the headset for hours. (When I tried V.R. for half an hour a few years ago, I felt a bit woozy for the next half hour.)

So this is what's on the way. The friend said he was given this Microsoft hardware by UVA as part of a project he's doing. For you or me, it would run $2,500. Requisite software is another $1,000. But this is new technology. Safe to say it will be available in a few years for $1,000 or so. That's not unreasonable.


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