Dying grandma uses Oculus Rift for one last walk outside, “Absolutely fantastic...”

Electronic Products ^ | 04/22/2014 | The Rift Arcade

[SamAdams76]

Facebook bought this company for something like $2 billion.

They know something.

[Prince of Space]

According to family lore, my grandfather checked out the prices on the Titanic but couldn’t afford it. He left on a different ship around the same time as the Titanic and supposedly passed it on the way. He claimed all the lights were blazing and the ship was making a leisurely voyage at the time. I guess it was good that he was dirt poor when he left England, lol.

[GraceG]

[ If only the education professionals could be trusted to leave out their leftists biases — but they can’t. ]

That is why we can use technology to bypass them

[SueRae]

What a nice thing for the company to do for this lady.

[null and void]

Yeah. That it was.

[Age of Reason]

I’m a genealogy buff, and I think this technology would be a good way for people today to understand the hardships our ancestors went through. For instance, my grandfather was a coal miner in Leeds, England, who came to America by boat with his wife and kids in 1912. I can’t even imagine going on such a journey with 3 kids under the age of 6. An application like this could show what life was really like back then and would probably be a big hit.

A bigger hit would be to experience the lives of hunter gatherer peoples, who not only enjoyed more leisure time than those of us who still have jobs, but also did 24/7 what they evolved to do, which meant they had much more fun than us.

[Secret Agent Man]

this is how technology can help people.

[Age of Reason]

How ironic, that she should be grateful for some toy manufactured by modern industry, which modern industry likely also generated the chemicals or radiation that eventually found their way into her body and gave her cancer.

I wonder who might eventually fall victim to the poisonous byproducts generated by the manufacturing of that toy.

[Sherman Logan]

He left on a different ship around the same time as the Titanic and supposedly passed it on the way. He claimed all the lights were blazing and the ship was making a leisurely voyage at the time.

Would not want to contradict your grandpad, but the usual notion is that the Titanic was trying to set a crossing record, and that this was a major contributor to its destruction. So it doesn't seem all that likely that it was poking along.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I wonder if it was anything like this (Sol euthanasia scene):

Ah...Beethovan's 6th...1st movement. I always think of Sol when I hear it.

[musicman]

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