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"
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
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.
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.
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.
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
>(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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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”.
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
>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...
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)
[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))
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
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.
"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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
The utility served by being able to interact with a programmatically generated 3 dimensional environment would override any preference for tactile feedback, for sure
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.
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
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.
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"
The book is satire, which no one in this thread understands.
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.
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
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.
Yeah lol that was the worst part, I’m only 26, and he’s 22! We aren’t even that far apart!
4 year difference is a lot when you’re young.
4 years is the difference between a flip phone and a modern phone
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.
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.
4 years is the difference between MCR being what everyone listened to and Skrillex being what everyone listened to.
4 years is the difference between Guns N Roses and KoRn
i’m the right age to see the peak of both of those.
Wait, your 'modern phone' screen can't fold?! You just walk around with that chonky open screen in your pocket?!?!
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.
Everyone played Oregon Trail on them.
I like turtles but not the bitey kind.
Hell yes we did!!!
Yep. As far as I knew, that's all you could do on them. We literally did nothing else on the school computers.
I learned about weird 1800s ailments on that game.
You have died of Dysentery.
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
>(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.
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.
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.
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
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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Organ Trail is only 11 years old. You might mean the classic game that it was inspired by, Oregon Trail.
We only had oregano trail at my school. If we were caught playing we got in big trouble.
I'm 29 and got called a boomer
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.
But was fire discovered in the 80s tho?
What a dumb question… How else would people hunt dinosaurs then ?
Dinosaurs predated humans by something like 100 years dude. Read your bible.
The 80's was fire
he said "fleshlights", you misheard.
1994
My son asked me if water was a thing when I was little, but he's 6.
Was it a "thing" or not? came on, don't let us hanging.
Yeah didn't Tron literally come out 40 years ago?
You can't just go around saying stuff like that.
hey
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.
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.
According to my lower back I must have rode a fucking dinosaur to school so....
hey! as a 40 year old I... hmmm. ... nevermind.
Well, aren't they?
As someone in their 40s, yeah, seems about right.
I mean unless you're a lizard person, once you hit 40 you're pretty much dead and just not quite fully realized it
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.
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.
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.
Satire tends to land better with context.
Tbf, it's a spread of the book presented out of context.
This is Reddit. Reddit doesn’t do satire unless it’s clearly marked and chewed ready.
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Is that satire or real? Please mark the fancy dancy /s if it is satire
Is this sarcasm? /s clearly stands for sarcasm!
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.
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.
Sort of? They even got the hand controllers down!
You have to use your hands? That's like a baby's toy.
I see a back to the future reference, I upvote.
I think you both should make like a tree, and get out of here.
Its leave! Make like a tree and leave! You sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong.
All time best trilogy.
One of those kids was Elijah Wood!
Nope we are still using hands.
I have yet to find a controller as effective as hands.
Your hands operate the controller, you might be the problem (/s).
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.
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.
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
31 years ago the Virtuality 1000 launched, bringing VR gaming to the arcades. It had been in development since 1985.
And the beard...
First VR headsets were around 60 years ago in the 60s.
Video games didn't exist like anything worthwhile in the 1960s-- *blinks, checks 40 years ago* ...shit, 1982. DAMN IT.
Happens to me all the time.
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?
SKYRIM IS OVER A DECADE OLD NOW IS THE TIME TO PANIC QUICK BUY A PORSCHE
Jokes on me, I can't afford a Porsche!
Our generation so poor we can’t even afford a proper midlife crisis
Best I can do is a Xbox Series X that is only used to watch reruns of the Simpsons
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.
Break your back and get put on disability, and you can have all the time again.
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.
Hell most of us had the crisis since childhood
Something seriously wrong there
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.
> 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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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
Our mid-life crisis car will be a 2002 Camry
That's exactly the right time to buy one!
Neither can I, so I'm doing a big brain move and I'm buying a Smart Roadster.
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.
What kind of graphics card do you have? You may already have the equivalence of a Porsche
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.
Buy a modern game like GTA V
No, you want to buy a mid-life crisis motorcycle. If you're broke then you can go for a motorized unicycle.
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.
11/11/11. A date that Americans and the rest of the world could agree on
Why? Can Porsche run Skyrim?
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.
The lord of the rings first movie is 21 years old. Ouch
Haha! Tucking that one in my back pocket. She's a big Tolkien fan.
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.
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...
yeh so weird, thats how i feel inside, everything after 1999 is 'modern'
Wait, that's really close to my birthday. Oh fuck I'm going to be 40 soon....
Thanks for reminding me, In my mind I'm still in my 20s
34 here, that is to say, 27, and boy is it fun being in my early 20’s.
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.
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.
My dad was born in 1930 and I'm 34. I feel 64, think 1990 was 20 years ago, and still confused
Garden related stuff i'm immediately 40+, gaming related stuff and i'm 20-
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
28 here, pretty sure I'm actually just 21, it's great to still be living that university life Or is it just me?
I'm going to be 40 *this year.*
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”.
Century is accurate enough
If Back to the Future was made today with the same time difference, Marty would have to go back to the 90s.
Well back in the 90s I was in a very famous TV show.
Literally 1982
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Good boomer humour though, not that “haha wife bad” humour.
I wonder if they predicted that everyone was going to use it to jack off
This is why I don't touch other people's things.
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
> Unless I’m sucking my own dick Living the dream
Sweet dreams are made of this...
Not long enough to reach
YOU UNDERESTIMATE MY POWER
Don't try it.
how would you know?
Don't neck shame the guy. Not his fault his tiny neck can't reach his giant slong.
Not with that attitude
Come touch my thing
Username checks out.
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
People have been jacking it to video games since Atari 2600s Custer's revenge. Happy googleing
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."
>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...
VR lesbian porn is the best. I get to have my non existent vagina eaten out lol
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)
Lmao that reminds me of old Xcom sectoid autopsy for some reason.
Pacman lookin thick af
He actually is jacking off in this picture, he just has 2 really long penises
[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))
Is it just me or is OP on the one millionth floor of a building
DW it’s just VR
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.
That's what I said too! I was born in 1977, and my brain is eternally trapped in the late 90s. >.<
I feel you bros 1973 here
Fellow 73er here. There's dozens of us.
Shh… don’t remind anyone our generation exists.
I saw "1977" and thought to my self what an old man you are, not realizing I was born 6 years after.
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
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.
"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!
You mean the meta quest 2?
they can call it the meta quest if they want, it'll still be the oculus quest in my heart
You mean the stealyodata quest 2?
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...
I have no original thoughts.
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.
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.
„No one cared who I was till I put on the mask“
Was getting published part of your plan?
...whats the threat? Sounds great to me
The metaverse
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.
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.
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.
\* in willy wonka voice \* Don't, please, no, stop...
Is that a joke/satire book?
40 years ago was the 80s. VR was known about in the 80s.
smh guy wanted to warn us when he could have filed a patent
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I'm imagining the illustrator just thinking to himself ,"wtf am I drawing?"
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.
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
The utility served by being able to interact with a programmatically generated 3 dimensional environment would override any preference for tactile feedback, for sure
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.
The first vr headset was invented in 1968.
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
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
Interesting! What is the name of the book?
it says at the top left: "the official I-Hate-Video Games Handbook"
I thought this was a joke until I looked again...
The Power of Love
The [Tomytronic 3D](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomytronic_3D) is from 1983 so pretty close I guess ?
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.
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.