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What Ever Happened to Virtual Reality?

Posted by timothy on from the it-stayed-similar dept.

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?"

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  1. What Ever Happened to Virtual Reality? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's all virtual of course!

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    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
    1. Re:What Ever Happened to Virtual Reality? by wickedsteve · · Score: 5, Funny

      This all seems so very real. You didn't even notice the transition did you?

  2. Better Than Life by cryptoz · · Score: 1, Funny

    from the British Red Dwarf series. Need I say more?

  3. Easy Answer by KyleNicholson · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Matrix scared everyone.

    1. Re:Easy Answer by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

      "The Matrix scared everyone."

      I agree. I don't know why anyone would want to hook into a first person sci-fi snoozer where you play Keanu Reeves.

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      "Derp de derp."
  4. What do you mean? by screwballicus · · Score: 5, Funny

    In 1995, Virtual Reality systems reached the apex of all conceivable technological possibility, realised its own state of perfection, and ceased to advance for lack of further necessity.

    1. Re:What do you mean? by Justin205 · · Score: 3, Funny

      We need a "+/-1 Bad Joke" moderation...

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      "Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you."
    2. Re:What do you mean? by aussie_a · · Score: 2, Funny

      That's what Funny is for.

    3. Re:What do you mean? by eclectro · · Score: 3, Funny

      realised its own state of perfection, and ceased to advance for lack of further necessity.

      Actually, it just got cancelled

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      Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
  5. Actually by Dante+Shamest · · Score: 5, Funny
    It seems like it's been ages since I heard of any advances in "Virtual Reality" technology. Was Virtual Reality just hype?

    Ah, the irony. I love my job.

    - The Architect
  6. RIP by Jondro · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nintendo killed it when they released the Virtual Boy

  7. What do you mean? by writermike · · Score: 4, Funny

    Virtual Reality is on TV every night of the week!

    Buh-doom-boom-Sis.

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    If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
  8. Virtual Reality by warewolfsmith · · Score: 4, Funny

    I Googled "Virtual Reality" Results 18,100,000 Hits for Virtual Reality. It seems the technology is everywhere.

  9. Re:come on.. by DenDave · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... it got patented...

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    -if at first you don't succeed, stay the heck away from paragliding.
  10. We don't need it by TangLiSha · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who needs virtual reality when you have reality tv?

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    Everyone has an agenda. Except me. --Michael Crichton
  11. Tin Hats on! by femto · · Score: 5, Funny
    Contrary to popular belief, virtial reality was not perfected in 1995. In reality VR was perfected in 1994. 10:42pm on 29th November to be precise. At this time, the US population was sedated by the United Nations via a dose to the drinking water supply. When they woke up 24 hours later, the entire nation was "Trumanised".

    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).

    This post will not be posted on the VR version of slashdot.

    1. Re:Tin Hats on! by Jeremi · · Score: 2, Funny
      On the bright side, GWB is just a bad dream (one they will never wake up from).


      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.

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      I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
  12. Re:Not hyped much by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I don't understand the letting go of phobias - the day I stop being scared of heights is when falls stop hurting me.

  13. Re:No consumer porn applications by rfc1394 · · Score: 5, Funny

    As Dennis Miller is reported to have said, "When some unemployed punk in Trenton, New Jersey can buy a plug-in for $29.95 that allows him to make love to Cindy Crawford, Virtual Reality is going to make crack look like Sanka."

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  14. I don't get it... by Short+Circuit · · Score: 2, Funny

    They haven't used steel for standard wiring in over a hundred years! Why do you call it "ironic," then?

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  15. Re:Eleven Reasons Why Virtual Reality Stalled by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Reason twelve. Virtual Reality pioneers make web pages about the top eleven reasons virtual reality failed with black text on light blue backgrounds.

  16. Re:Too risky? by MutantHamster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Have you seen Tron? Thank God it doesn't look like Tron, I say.

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  17. Re:come on.. by ErikTheRed · · Score: 2, Funny

    Come on? What makes you so sure this is real? Or did you take the Blue Pill?

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  18. Re:No consumer porn applications by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Funny

    "When some unemployed punk in Trenton, New Jersey can buy a plug-in for $29.95 that allows him to make love to Cindy Crawford, Virtual Reality is going to make crack look like Sanka."

    That's true. Have you seen what $30 hookers look like in New Jersey?

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    "Derp de derp."
  19. SHHHH! don't tell him by goombah99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    apparently he does not know this is all a virtual world. Don't ruin it for him.

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    Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
  20. Re:One major bottleneck: by AdmiralWeirdbeard · · Score: 2, Funny

    why do you sit around with a small wallet photo in each eye all the time? thats weird.

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  21. Re:come on.. by geminidomino · · Score: 2, Funny

    no, if they did they'd be drooling idiots and wouldn't be posting here

    Have you LOOKED at 98% of the posts here?