Comments on: Virtual Reality or Virtual Stupidity? http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: greglas http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-50038 greglas Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:30:31 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/#comment-50038 <p>This is like the iPod -- people will be wearing these around with them turned off, just because it's fashionable.<br><br>Btw -- with a television wrapped around your head, why do you still have to look at a monitor full of clouds?</p> This is like the iPod — people will be wearing these around with them turned off, just because it’s fashionable.

Btw — with a television wrapped around your head, why do you still have to look at a monitor full of clouds?

]]> By: greglas http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-35596 greglas Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:30:31 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/#comment-35596 <p>This is like the iPod -- people will be wearing these around with them turned off, just because it's fashionable.</p> <p>Btw -- with a television wrapped around your head, why do you still have to look at a monitor full of clouds?</p> This is like the iPod — people will be wearing these around with them turned off, just because it’s fashionable.

Btw — with a television wrapped around your head, why do you still have to look at a monitor full of clouds?

]]> By: Noel Le http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-50037 Noel Le Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:53:53 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/#comment-50037 <p>That picture is actually of Adam. The pink shirt and Darth Vader helmut are a disguise when he plays video games.<br><br>Hmmm, strange. Why did Adam get a better computer monitor in his office than me.</p> That picture is actually of Adam. The pink shirt and Darth Vader helmut are a disguise when he plays video games.

Hmmm, strange. Why did Adam get a better computer monitor in his office than me.

]]> By: Tim Lee http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-50036 Tim Lee Mon, 16 Oct 2006 19:34:01 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/#comment-50036 <p>Also, there's no visible means of support on her shoulders, which means that the hard plastic of the device would dig into your shoulders painfully. And why is the back of the device so huge? It looks like a Photoshop job to me.</p> Also, there’s no visible means of support on her shoulders, which means that the hard plastic of the device would dig into your shoulders painfully. And why is the back of the device so huge? It looks like a Photoshop job to me.

]]> By: Noel Le http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-35595 Noel Le Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:53:53 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/#comment-35595 <p>That picture is actually of Adam. The pink shirt and Darth Vader helmut are a disguise when he plays video games.</p> <p>Hmmm, strange. Why did Adam get a better computer monitor in his office than me.</p> That picture is actually of Adam. The pink shirt and Darth Vader helmut are a disguise when he plays video games.

Hmmm, strange. Why did Adam get a better computer monitor in his office than me.

]]> By: Tim Lee http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-35594 Tim Lee Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:34:01 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/#comment-35594 <p>Also, there's no visible means of support on her shoulders, which means that the hard plastic of the device would dig into your shoulders painfully. And why is the back of the device so huge? It looks like a Photoshop job to me.</p> Also, there’s no visible means of support on her shoulders, which means that the hard plastic of the device would dig into your shoulders painfully. And why is the back of the device so huge? It looks like a Photoshop job to me.

]]> By: James Gattuso http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-50035 James Gattuso Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:25:37 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/#comment-50035 <p>Adam -- perhaps I'm just naturally suspicious, but have you considered the possibility that this is a hoax? The photo just doesn't look right. (Why, for instance, is she looking at a TV screen when the gargantuan device is on her head.)<br><br>I checked around the web for more, and was unable to find any reference of this outside the Daily Mail piece that you linked to and a number of blogs that also link to it. I also noted that the Daily Mail has a second piece reporting that a Chinese scientist has made a robotic "twin" of himself, with a robotic skeleton and silica gel for skin, that looks and talks just like him.<br><br>It is possible that both stories are true. But I wouldn't bet on it.</p> Adam — perhaps I’m just naturally suspicious, but have you considered the possibility that this is a hoax? The photo just doesn’t look right. (Why, for instance, is she looking at a TV screen when the gargantuan device is on her head.)

I checked around the web for more, and was unable to find any reference of this outside the Daily Mail piece that you linked to and a number of blogs that also link to it. I also noted that the Daily Mail has a second piece reporting that a Chinese scientist has made a robotic “twin” of himself, with a robotic skeleton and silica gel for skin, that looks and talks just like him.

It is possible that both stories are true. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

]]> By: James Gattuso http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/comment-page-1/#comment-35593 James Gattuso Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:25:37 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2006/10/16/virtual-reality-or-virtual-stupidity/#comment-35593 <p>Adam -- perhaps I'm just naturally suspicious, but have you considered the possibility that this is a hoax? The photo just doesn't look right. (Why, for instance, is she looking at a TV screen when the gargantuan device is on her head.)</p> <p>I checked around the web for more, and was unable to find any reference of this outside the Daily Mail piece that you linked to and a number of blogs that also link to it. I also noted that the Daily Mail has a second piece reporting that a Chinese scientist has made a robotic "twin" of himself, with a robotic skeleton and silica gel for skin, that looks and talks just like him.</p> <p>It is possible that both stories are true. But I wouldn't bet on it.</p> Adam — perhaps I’m just naturally suspicious, but have you considered the possibility that this is a hoax? The photo just doesn’t look right. (Why, for instance, is she looking at a TV screen when the gargantuan device is on her head.)

I checked around the web for more, and was unable to find any reference of this outside the Daily Mail piece that you linked to and a number of blogs that also link to it. I also noted that the Daily Mail has a second piece reporting that a Chinese scientist has made a robotic “twin” of himself, with a robotic skeleton and silica gel for skin, that looks and talks just like him.

It is possible that both stories are true. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

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