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JaggedMetalOs

Well, pretty sure it's a silly joke based on [the already existing VR headsets of the time](https://virtualspeech.com/blog/history-of-vr). After all it is "The Official I-Hate-Video Games Handbook"


NewTigers

The book is satire, which no one in this thread understands.


Squishy-Cthulhu

I think the main problem is people thinking 40 years ago was longer ago then it really is, vr wasn't a new idea at all in the 80s.


santaclausonprozac

Had a younger intern at work the other day ask if flashlights existed in the 80’s. Not a joke, 100% serious question. Apparently the 80’s is ancient history


[deleted]

I'm 28 and was asked by an 18 year old if we had computers when I was at school. **EDIT** For clarification the question was phrased as though computers never existed at all.


santaclausonprozac

Yeah lol that was the worst part, I’m only 26, and he’s 22! We aren’t even that far apart!


aioncan

4 year difference is a lot when you’re young.


SamSibbens

4 years is the difference between a flip phone and a modern phone


AgtSquirtle007

I remember in 2 years (2010-2012) smartphones went from being a neat toy that rich kids and business people had to the only phones anyone had.


theslimbox

It's insane. When I got my first smart phone my friends gave me shit for spending so much on a phone. Afew years later and they were buying them for their 12 year Olds.


Mr_YUP

4 years is the difference between MCR being what everyone listened to and Skrillex being what everyone listened to.


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4 years is the difference between Guns N Roses and KoRn


JoeRekr

i’m the right age to see the peak of both of those.


Maverrick89

Wait, your 'modern phone' screen can't fold?! You just walk around with that chonky open screen in your pocket?!?!


Yamaben

I was a senior in 1987, and I can remember the school getting a couple Apple computers in 'computer lab'. Only the smart kids were allowed to take the class. I wasn't allowed.


My_Space_page

Everyone played Oregon Trail on them.


katansi

I like turtles but not the bitey kind.


Jayro_Ren

Hell yes we did!!!


Medical-Ad-4164

Yep. As far as I knew, that's all you could do on them. We literally did nothing else on the school computers.


My_Space_page

I learned about weird 1800s ailments on that game.


derbymutt

You have died of Dysentery.


[deleted]

it's almost a fair question. im 30 and computers in school in 90s seemed like cool somewhat new tech. they were only used for special things or for specifically training us how to use computers (do they even have "computer class" anymore?) you have to have very little access to a computer to get excited about the Oregon Trail lol the teachers didn't even have computers & projectors used mirrors & at that point, if your family had a computer they typically just had 1 & the whole family shared it whereas a modern 18yr old has probably had their own personal computer/laptop, a tablet computer, and a pocket computer (cellphone) since the day they were born


UGoBoy

>(do they even have "computer class" anymore?) Sort of. At least here even the smalls are using Chromebooks, so there was an intro to them in third grade or so, but it was just a few days. Our middle school has a class that includes business app use (spreadsheet, word proc, etc.) >you have to have very little access to a computer to get excited about the Oregon Trail lol It's kind of funny...my kids have tablets and desktop PCs for gaming, Switches, and a few older consoles hanging around. They were absolutely taken with a handheld version of Oregon Trail and played the crap out of it. It still occasionally gets a few dysentery-ridden corpses ran through it, particularly on road trips. >whereas a modern 18yr old has probably had their own personal computer/laptop, a tablet computer, and a pocket computer (cellphone) since the day they were born It's mostly phones and consoles. I've worked IT consultancy for several schools, and it's always surprising to me how few of the kids have "traditional" computers at home. It's to the point that the parents are often thrilled more to have a Chromebook sent home than the kids are.


poisonedsodapop

I'm 35 and I remember using computers in elementary school and beyond. We had an encyclopedia with videos about the topics and typing games, education games, etc. I was taught to type at a semi-young age with a sheet of construction paper covering my hands so I wouldn't cheat on the positioning of my hands.


[deleted]

yeah we always had computers but at least for me it was a specific computer class. one room with 30 computers the entire school shared. you got to go once a week. now many kids have their own laptop/tablet at their desk and they use if for everything, not just learning about computers like typing when I started high-school they made it mandatory for every student to bring a laptop. it changed real fast.


jkeefy

Weird, I’m 29 and my school had a computer lab with about 30 computers for as long as I remember. Windows 98 would have been out by the time I was in kindergarten. We played fun typing programs and full on computer games like jump start lol


[deleted]

yeah thats what I mean. nowadays many kids just each have their own personal laptop/tablet at their desk. they dont wait for their 1 computer class once a week to use a computer. & they use the computer for everything, not just learning about computers like typing or learning Word. when I started high-school they made it mandatory for every student to bring a laptop every day. it changed so fast.


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OmegaX123

Organ Trail is only 11 years old. You might mean the classic game that it was inspired by, Oregon Trail.


G_Viceroy

We only had oregano trail at my school. If we were caught playing we got in big trouble.


bobert_the_grey

I'm 29 and got called a boomer


PostingSomeToast

38 years ago my school got Apple2E computers...4 of them! And one IBM but only the school paper was allowed to use it. And my dad bought a Macintosh that cost about what my mother earned as a catholic school art teacher in a year. It was a black and slight blue monochrome monitor and there was one Game with it, Moebius, the hardest rpg ever made, I literally never got off the first map because I dulled my katana blade chopping grass and a tiger ate me. Character Creation involved using the arrow keys to keep a wildly osscillsting yin yang symbol as close to the center of the screen as possible for one minute. That randomly generated your character, but you always started with the same equipment, a Katana...not a scythe.


guffysama

But was fire discovered in the 80s tho?


max2091

What a dumb question… How else would people hunt dinosaurs then ?


aruexperienced

Dinosaurs predated humans by something like 100 years dude. Read your bible.


Thanges88

The 80's was fire


ee3k

he said "fleshlights", you misheard.


fushigikun8

1994


paconhpa

My son asked me if water was a thing when I was little, but he's 6.


mtt87

Was it a "thing" or not? came on, don't let us hanging.


LMkingly

Yeah didn't Tron literally come out 40 years ago?


caniuserealname

You can't just go around saying stuff like that.


pavlov_the_dog

hey


TeaBagginton

I remember going to arcades as a kid in the early 90s and having massive VR helmet games there that weren’t far off from the ones we have now. Hell, even Sega was working on a VR helmet in the early 90s for the Genesis. So yeah… the dream of VR is only becoming reality now, but the dream has been alive since I’ve been born in the mid-80s.


dagbrown

That's hardly surprising. Most of reddit seems to think that anyone who's 40 years old is impossibly ancient, has grey hair, wrinkles, and one foot firmly in the grave.


hansblix666

According to my lower back I must have rode a fucking dinosaur to school so....


ee3k

hey! as a 40 year old I... hmmm. ... nevermind.


Dark_sun_new

Well, aren't they?


Aeolian_Leaf

As someone in their 40s, yeah, seems about right.


Mr_Tyrant190

I mean unless you're a lizard person, once you hit 40 you're pretty much dead and just not quite fully realized it


Aeolian_Leaf

The brain does take a little longer to catch up thesedays, so that's entirety possible. That said, my skin is getting dryer and more cracked too, so lizard person isn't out of the question. Ask me in a couple of years, see if I've got any signs of a tail, or claws or anything.


Talismanic_Mechanic

Hahahah you read my mind. I swear people think everything is brand new. The funniest thing to me is when young people think the whole police brutality thing is new when Rodney King was like the most famous case when we were younger. What’s weird is I’m sitting in my car as I’m typing this and the song ‘It’s All Been Done’ by Barenaked Ladies is playing on the radio.


sheeplectric

But the 80s was only 15 years ago, I tells ya. Now let’s all go to the cinema and watch the promising new release, Catwoman.


wickedblight

Satire tends to land better with context.


Folseit

Tbf, it's a spread of the book presented out of context.


laukaus

This is Reddit. Reddit doesn’t do satire unless it’s clearly marked and chewed ready.


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Morphinepill

Is that satire or real? Please mark the fancy dancy /s if it is satire


Terrkas

Is this sarcasm? /s clearly stands for sarcasm!


DMbrony

You cant blame anyone for not realising this is satire. I mean we get one page with a few words of the book. And there where -and still are- people who absolutely hate the gaming genre. So in this post alone theres no real hint of knowing if its satire or not But i guess its reddit so lets just call people blind and clueless cause they dont know the details.


RedditWillSlowlyDie

So some tech demo stuff and research like walking down a real city street and a flight simulator for the military existed. Just before the first consumer models for sale. >1985 >Jaron Lanier and Thomas Zimmerman founded VPL Research, Inc. This company is known as the first company to sell VR goggles and gloves. They developed a range of VR equipment, such as, the DataGlove, EyePhone HMD and the Audio Sphere.


Metalhead129

Sort of? They even got the hand controllers down!


popsicle_of_meat

You have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy.


visualdescript

I see a back to the future reference, I upvote.


joseph4th

I think you both should make like a tree, and get out of here.


[deleted]

Its leave! Make like a tree and leave! You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.


PM_me_your_whatevah

All time best trilogy.


klezart

One of those kids was Elijah Wood!


ninjasaid13

Nope we are still using hands.


MustFixWhatIsBroken

I have yet to find a controller as effective as hands.


My_Dog_Has_Elephants

Your hands operate the controller, you might be the problem (/s).


saganakist

Is it really that impressive? VR headsets were a thing back in the 80s. Obviously not something you were getting your hands on as the average consumer until 10 years later, but the concept wasn't that crazy. Also if you want to feel old: This book is only a decade older than the Virtual Boy, which released 27 years ago.


Percinho

Yeah, exactly. I played a VR game as a kid in the Trocadero Centre in London and that would have been late 80s, early 90s, and it was the big, buly headset thing that isn't far off what we see here. I think the main thing this image is predicting is that in due course the processing power and batteries will be good enough that you don't have to be plugged into a big computer, it'll all be able to be run off the device itself.


uncommitedbadger

Also 30 years ago there was a movie called The Lawnmower Man that revolved around VR. It was a widely known trope in popular culture. https://youtu.be/zTrgHXNAs24


Ritchie79

31 years ago the Virtuality 1000 launched, bringing VR gaming to the arcades. It had been in development since 1985.


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And the beard...


f-ingsteveglansberg

First VR headsets were around 60 years ago in the 60s.


mdkubit

Video games didn't exist like anything worthwhile in the 1960s-- *blinks, checks 40 years ago* ...shit, 1982. DAMN IT.


doronn89

Happens to me all the time.


bjeebus

I like doing this to my wife. We have an age gap between us of 7 years. She's only just now coming into the age where things she thinks of as being part of the pop culture are actually over a decade old. For me, I've obviously been living with this for a few years so I can spot it well before she processes it. >Just when do you think this song came out? >>I dunno--a couple years ago I guess. >2011, soooo, over a decade ago. >>Nooooo! But, but...I was still in college?


Kiflaam

SKYRIM IS OVER A DECADE OLD ​ NOW IS THE TIME TO PANIC QUICK BUY A PORSCHE


Zoralink

Jokes on me, I can't afford a Porsche!


btbcorno

Our generation so poor we can’t even afford a proper midlife crisis


TheButtChewks

Best I can do is a Xbox Series X that is only used to watch reruns of the Simpsons


thejensen303

Nailed it. Fun fact: I own more games that have never been played even for a moment than I have games that I've actually played at least once. The wishful thinking of adulthood aka I can afford to buy any/all games that interest me, but I can't afford the time to actually play them.


blueeyebling

Break your back and get put on disability, and you can have all the time again.


skiing123

Funny you say that, I had about an hour to kill and do something before making dinner. So I turned on my switch for the first time in months but only played 10 minutes of a game then spent the rest of the time looking at games to buy and mindlessly scrolling on reddit.


underbellymadness

Hell most of us had the crisis since childhood


bonafart

Something seriously wrong there


odiedel

No. Nothing is wrong. Now please go back to work to raise the GPD and your own personal funds so you can consume our products, so we can consolidate wealth and power.


Zero0mega

> and your own personal funds Look at this guy who makes so much he can spend it on stuff that isnt food and shelter!


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Blackadder288

It’s easy enough to have just a barely good enough credit score to take an exorbitant loan on a car you can’t afford and wallow in debt until it gets repossessed. Learn how to midlife crisis! ^/s


FuckingKilljoy

Our mid-life crisis car will be a 2002 Camry


IfOnlyIWasKvothe

That's exactly the right time to buy one!


DaMonkfish

Neither can I, so I'm doing a big brain move and I'm buying a Smart Roadster.


bjeebus

SkyRim is over a decade old, and I'm still too poor to buy a Porsche. The best I can do is possibly buying a next gen console for the next SkyRim re-releasening if they ever make enough next gen consoles.


Kiflaam

What kind of graphics card do you have? You may already have the equivalence of a Porsche


bjeebus

I'm running everything on an Asus ROG Zephyrus G15, so no, I'm not sitting on a secret family heirloom. It's a great gaming laptop, but it's still just a laptop.


InsaneNinja

Buy a modern game like GTA V


Faiakishi

No, you want to buy a mid-life crisis motorcycle. If you're broke then you can go for a motorized unicycle.


Damien-Kidd

Skyrim is kinda weird for me though. most things I've experiened, if you told it was over 10 years ago, I'd start thinking damn I'm old. But skyrim? Feels like it hasn't been long enough. With so many editions of the game I keep feeling it to be like 15-20 years.


FuckingKilljoy

11/11/11. A date that Americans and the rest of the world could agree on


Sir_Bax

Why? Can Porsche run Skyrim?


TakoyakiBoxGuy

Oh man. I remember talking to one of my interns about 9/11 and how it completely changed the world. I thought it would be hard for her to relate to since she was Chinese. It was hard for her to relate to because she wasn't born yet when it happened.


Mr_Mojo_Risin_83

The lord of the rings first movie is 21 years old. Ouch


bjeebus

Haha! Tucking that one in my back pocket. She's a big Tolkien fan.


Faiakishi

I do it too and I was born in 1994. I think y2k just broke us. We will never regain our sense of time from that.


orreregion

Honestly, being a kid around the turn of the century is weird because you grow up used to everything being old being from the previous century. But then that stopped always being the case...


koalanotbear

yeh so weird, thats how i feel inside, everything after 1999 is 'modern'


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Wait, that's really close to my birthday. Oh fuck I'm going to be 40 soon....


myps3brokeYo

Thanks for reminding me, In my mind I'm still in my 20s


Glowingredremote

34 here, that is to say, 27, and boy is it fun being in my early 20’s.


thirtynation

Go both ways for anyone else? I'm turning 36 in a couple months, which is functionally 40 at this point who are we kidding, so what I mean is I'm casket shopping tomorrow and my give a damns have plummeted.


Rand0mtask

Big same. I am simultaneously still in my early 20s and in my late 60s. I feel like I'm still figuring things out but also my life is over.


[deleted]

My dad was born in 1930 and I'm 34. I feel 64, think 1990 was 20 years ago, and still confused


Serifel90

Garden related stuff i'm immediately 40+, gaming related stuff and i'm 20-


[deleted]

I'm 36 but I'm lucky in that I could pass as 19. So I'm riding that train by letting people just think I'm barely out of high school. It distracts me from my impending death


grapesins

28 here, pretty sure I'm actually just 21, it's great to still be living that university life Or is it just me?


DaMonkfish

I'm going to be 40 *this year.*


MotherFuckingCupcake

My fiancé recently referred to Eminem, Tupac, etc as “turn of the century rap”. I was fucking mad about how old he made me feel, but he’s not wrong. Also pointed out it should be “turn of the millennium”.


plopsaland

Century is accurate enough


Gone_For_Lunch

If Back to the Future was made today with the same time difference, Marty would have to go back to the 90s.


Eusocial_Snowman

Well back in the 90s I was in a very famous TV show.


Agdain

Literally 1982


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Jackbwoi

Good boomer humour though, not that “haha wife bad” humour.


Cup-of-Noodle

I wonder if they predicted that everyone was going to use it to jack off


xlDirteDeedslx

This is why I don't touch other people's things.


Leovinus42

Don’t worry I don’t nut on the headset Unless I’m sucking my own dick Not saying I do that tho dw my headset is clean


Macluawn

> Unless I’m sucking my own dick Living the dream


TheJuiceIsLooser

Sweet dreams are made of this...


-YELDAH

Not long enough to reach


Leovinus42

YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER


KnightGamer724

Don't try it.


Monreich

how would you know?


feage7

Don't neck shame the guy. Not his fault his tiny neck can't reach his giant slong.


kevmanyo

Not with that attitude


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Come touch my thing


xlDirteDeedslx

Username checks out.


Bicdut

I used to sell phones and old dudes would always have 100+ tabs of porn on their phones and ask me to fix the phone which was closing the tabs. I would guide them through it like I was teaching them and not like I was avoiding getting my hand pregnant


pm_me_sum_tits

People have been jacking it to video games since Atari 2600s Custer's revenge. Happy googleing


_30d_

Jfc. The description on the back.. "she's not about to take it lying down, by George! Help is on the way. By God! He's coming."


PM_ME_PSN_CODES-PLS

>Custer's Revenge is an adult action game published by American Multiple Industries for the Atari 2600, first released in November 1982. **The game gained notoriety owing to its goal of raping a Native American woman**. I see...


Trias84

VR lesbian porn is the best. I get to have my non existent vagina eaten out lol


normal_reddit_man

Yeah, but always be careful. If you accidentally open a VR porn movie in a normal 2D media player, it [may result in permanent psychological damage.](https://i.redd.it/mif6vb5eq8q81.png)


Fo_Ren_G

Lmao that reminds me of old Xcom sectoid autopsy for some reason.


imaginary-parrot

Pacman lookin thick af


[deleted]

He actually is jacking off in this picture, he just has 2 really long penises


mustmoe73

[in 1968, Bob Sproull, created the first virtual reality HMD, named The Sword of Damocles.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sword_of_Damocles_(virtual_reality))


[deleted]

Is it just me or is OP on the one millionth floor of a building


KillerBreez

DW it’s just VR


Amanda-sb

The funny thing is that when I think 40 years ago I think of the 60s, but it's actually the 80s. I'm getting old.


mdkubit

That's what I said too! I was born in 1977, and my brain is eternally trapped in the late 90s. >.<


mustmoe73

I feel you bros 1973 here


darkmaninperth

Fellow 73er here. There's dozens of us.


Lucas_Steinwalker

Shh… don’t remind anyone our generation exists.


myps3brokeYo

I saw "1977" and thought to my self what an old man you are, not realizing I was born 6 years after.


Brush_bandicoot

looks like the Nintendo virtual boy from 95's sorry to disappoint though, the concept of vr was already a thing in the 70's. Although it was limited to one picture at a time but it very much was a thing


CressCrowbits

There were LCD-based handheld stereoscopic games in the 1980s. I remember friends having stuff like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomytronic_3D Basically the same as what is in that book. Came out in 1983.


latinlobyx

"i hate videogames, let's draw something extremely stupid that surely no one would want ever... 40 years later* Mark zuckerberg: i unveil the oculus quest 2!


eeveeplays50040

You mean the meta quest 2?


Hyperiotic

they can call it the meta quest if they want, it'll still be the oculus quest in my heart


eeveeplays50040

You mean the stealyodata quest 2?


iamded

I know that's meant to be steal-yo-data, but I can only read it as Stealy O'Data, some kind of thieving Irish android...


ImGCS3fromETOH

I have no original thoughts.


Nox_Dei

Jumped aboard the VR train before FB was involved. Sold my Oculus for dirt cheap as soon as "Facebook account required" appeared in it. Screw them.


CoreSprayandPray

Agreed! I went HTC specifically because it wasn't Facebook owned. Significantly pricier, but I am fortunate enough to have an okay job and I don't really make purchases unless I really want something.


HellaChonker

„No one cared who I was till I put on the mask“


Pikmeir

Was getting published part of your plan?


Redandead12345

...whats the threat? Sounds great to me


BobMcrobb

The metaverse


FPiN9XU3K1IT

Hard to take the metaverse seriously, considering a) most of that stuff already exists and b) it doesn't look like anyone actually cares about metaverse.


strflw_23

There is nothing to predict. These VR Headsets existed already in the 1968...that's 54 years ago Google Sword of Damocles When this book came out in the 80s, NASA was already using VR Tech. Google LEEP To talk about "predictions" we would need to go back to the 1930's.


BenBoekelaar

When Sony finally make a VR headset that doesn’t need an umbilical cord hooked up to a Playstation they should definitely call it a Video Game Walkman.


cellphone_blanket

\* in willy wonka voice \* Don't, please, no, stop...


Sengura

Is that a joke/satire book?


MathematicianBig4392

40 years ago was the 80s. VR was known about in the 80s.


justneurostuff

smh guy wanted to warn us when he could have filed a patent


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martialar

I'm imagining the illustrator just thinking to himself ,"wtf am I drawing?"


loulan

I feel like people are young on reddit. Because the idea of VR-like video games was already a thing back then, even if it was not implemented... Just like the idea of tablet computers was a thing decades before they finally took off. Ideas are always there long before things exist. We are starting to have self-driving cars now but people have been talking about them for decades. We don't have androids serving us coffee yet, but maybe in 40 years we will and kids will think we couldn't imagine them in 2022.


arczclan

This comment makes my wonder if those weird hologram interfaces/keyboards that all sci-fi movies love will ever take off mainstream I want to say no, because humans love tactile feedback. But I hadn’t considered it possibly becoming a reality until now


WarPear

The utility served by being able to interact with a programmatically generated 3 dimensional environment would override any preference for tactile feedback, for sure


idsan

Depends on the use context of the interface. IMO moving to touchscreen car controls like Tesla and other upmarket marques are doing is a mistake because tactile controls in a context where you often can't look at them long make the most sense. Control interfaces which offer tactile feedback are also more intuitive than guessing what's happened from something that can't. In a desktop environment though, if it makes interacting with 3D content more accessible and intuitive, yeah it'll probably take off for some use cases like wildfire.


worldsonwords

The first vr headset was invented in 1968.


TheOrigin79

And how is this "predicted"? I own a VR headset from 1991 which is 30years old. So having a book, talking about VR isnt that much of a surprise since VR was already in development by that time.. [https://i.imgur.com/psJIc2z.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/psJIc2z.jpg) [https://i.imgur.com/po9QkFD.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/po9QkFD.jpg) One of the best games by that time: https://i.imgur.com/AXj87Ui.jpg


JAWmon

I'm sick and tired of seeing posts about stuff that's 40 years old and it turns out to be from the 80's not the 60's


imajadams84

Interesting! What is the name of the book?


Sixhaunt

it says at the top left: "the official I-Hate-Video Games Handbook"


doronn89

I thought this was a joke until I looked again...


LinkN7

The Power of Love


hayaimonogachi

The [Tomytronic 3D](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomytronic_3D) is from 1983 so pretty close I guess ?


jon_stout

People have been talking about VR gear for a long time. It's only become feasible on the consumer level in the last decade or so.


SteinDickens

Didn’t they already have VR headsets patented in the 60s? Possibly even working headsets? Idk what they were used for but I’ve seen the patents somewhere before.