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Sunday, November 9, 2014



So Ciaran Laval linked to a company that has a new demo showcasing an Oculus VR experience.

What does it showcase?  Nothing more or less than a nod at the latest dystopian novel that Tech heads want to make flesh..."Ready Player One".

Thanks to Digital Cybercherries, you can go back to a 1980's arcade and even listen to old tunes.  If you've never experienced said time, no matter Digital Cybercherries has recreated this sad little mess for you to experience.

An experience that ironically captures the pathos of VR itself.  A time when people stopped looking at one another and just stared into a box.  It was the natural outcome of television but so much worse.  Because now we gained an actual gateway into psychosis.

But now with this new groovy VR step, you can live the psychosis.  You can be in the 80's with the box strapped to your head, entering a black box space only to stare into a virtual black box with old arcade graphics.

Are you living?  Or are you lying down on that bed with Noodles hitting that opium only to smile like a daft idiot.

Oh in the past, everything was so much better.  Its much easier to hide there and not face the problems of today.  Easier than actually getting out to do something about inequality and loss of freedom/privacy. It's so modern, so futuristic, so like "Ready Player One".

As usual the tech heads failed to take away the one main theme of the book they idolize.  The character Halliday created his VR to hide from the world.  When he hid, he lost out on love and life because an hallucination was more attractive.  In the process he pulled his whole fictional world into that VR opium dream along with him.

Noodles likes the past, he wants to go no further.  Do you want to join him?