A long time ago, I was on vacation with my family at a tourist trap. Arcades were always high on my priority list to find, but this particular trip, I found something new. It was a circular pod, containing a game player inside with goofy goggles on their face and a controller in their hand. It was an early VR system, probably of the Virtuality brand, that pit players against each other in a primitive death match.
My parents paid the $15 or whatever it was to play and it was terrible, of course, but we were promised that VR was the way of the future. 20-odd years later, with the advent of things like the affordable consumer-grade Oculus Rift, we’re on the brink of that reality. But the world is a very different place than it was in the early 90s.
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My parents paid the $15 or whatever it was to play and it was terrible, of course, but we were promised that VR was the way of the future. 20-odd years later, with the advent of things like the affordable consumer-grade Oculus Rift, we’re on the brink of that reality. But the world is a very different place than it was in the early 90s.
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