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Re:The Tech Bubble Didn’t Burst This Year by subway on Friday October 21, 2016 @09:40AM (#12760283)
"Oh this thing on my coffee table? I didn't know people even use these for porn! No I've never used it for that. I really like the uhh... rollercoaster simulation..."

Clearly you're talking about a VCR, no wait, DVD player, no wait Laptop.

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Re:The Tech Bubble Didn’t Burst This Year by ethanbond on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:06AM (#12760510)
Movies already existed and were wildly popular. The question was how to move them into the home.

VR is not wildly popular outside of the home, or anywhere else for that matter.

Unless you're implying that Rift solves a distribution problem? It doesn't, obviously.

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Re:The Tech Bubble Didn’t Burst This Year by ghaff on Friday October 21, 2016 @10:19AM (#12760638)
>The question was how to move them into the home.

And in fact, movies were already in the home and had been for a long time. [1] (Of course, by the time VCRs were mass market, there was cable too.) So the question was really only how to watch movies in the home on your own schedule.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Saturday_Night_at_the_Movi...

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