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Re:Oculus Rift by sbarre on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:45PM (#9701859)
A podcast I listen to recently discussed the theoretical horror of flying while being stuck next to a passenger strapped into an Oculus Rift who is totally oblivious to how annoying they are being to their fellow passengers with their gestures and reactions to the VR experience that no one else is seeing.

Please don't be that guy.. :-)

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Re:Oculus Rift by lhl on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:48PM (#9702312)
From what I've seen the weirder reaction w/ people wearing GearVR on planes is when they are interacting w/ them through the pass-through camera, since people expect them the HMD users to be oblivious to the world.
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Re:Oculus Rift by uptown on Thursday June 11, 2015 @09:36PM (#9703516)
This guy?

http://gizmodo.com/that-vr-guy-riding-the-subway-now-with-ex...

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Re:Oculus Rift by ErikRogneby on Thursday June 11, 2015 @03:58PM (#9701954)
Now we just need a catchy portmanteau like "glasshole" for that guy? Vridiot?
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Re:Oculus Rift by diggum on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:17PM (#9702103)
Is Avatard too un-PC?
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Re:Oculus Rift by pantalaimon on Thursday June 11, 2015 @09:07PM (#9703431)
Stephenson already described the Gargoyle in Snow Crash.
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Re:Oculus Rift by jimmcslim on Thursday June 11, 2015 @04:50PM (#9702335)
VRsehole.
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Re:Oculus Rift by kayge on Thursday June 11, 2015 @07:08PM (#9703033)
HMD-bag
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Re:Oculus Rift by aidenn0 on Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:09PM (#9702454)
HMDegenerate?
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Re:Oculus Rift by lovemenot on Thursday June 11, 2015 @05:47PM (#9702665)
Succubus Stiff
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Re:Oculus Rift by lovemenot on Friday June 12, 2015 @03:59AM (#9704565)
Not sure why this is being down-voted. From Wiki:

>>A succubus is a female demon or supernatural entity in folklore (traced back to medieval legend) that appears in dreams and takes the form of a woman in order to seduce men

I believe that it was as much social as technical issues that held back Glass. Like it or not, we can surely expect social push-back on a VR device which will make its users appear to onlookers as almost masturbatory.

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Re:Oculus Rift by lugg on Thursday June 11, 2015 @08:49PM (#9703374)
Won't be a problem if everyone has one.
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