Jul 8 2009Yes Please: Virtual Reality Dinosaurs In Japan
Canon, using virtual reality technology (that I'm going to steal), is planning an entirely nonexistent dinosaur exhibit at a museum in Chiba, Japan.
Visitors will be allowed to don a pair of virtual reality glasses that will display nearly life-sized three-dimensional images of various dinosaurs right there on the museum floor.
Displaying over 260 dinosaur specimens, some of the virtual creatures in the exhibit will also move, adding to their realistic effect.
First of all, Canon, those are not virtual reality glasses. Glasses don't look like a Polaroid camera and have a power cord. Secondly, how funny would it be to see me some random guy with a VR mask on dry humping thin air in the middle of a museum? If you answered, "that's not funny, that's love", congratulations, I'll let you pay for my that other guy's admittance.
Canon launches virtual reality dinosaur exhibit in Japan [dvice]
Thanks to FDSY, b-man and Aaron, who BACK OFF THE TRICERATOPS, HE'S MINE.
Reader Comments
1. Spoonman - July 8, 2009 1:15 PM
FIRST! In your FACE!
2. tobyraider - July 8, 2009 1:16 PM
SECOND!
3. tobyraider - July 8, 2009 1:17 PM
THIRD!!
4. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 8, 2009 1:17 PM
VR is how the robots will enslave us
5. Pew³ - July 8, 2009 1:17 PM
GW wants dino-sore-ass.
6. Madgame - July 8, 2009 1:17 PM
don't you mean back off SHE'S mine???
7. tobyraider - July 8, 2009 1:18 PM
Cant imagine why someone said i was a skitzo the other day...
8. Null - July 8, 2009 1:19 PM
That's not virtual reality. Virtual reality would be an entirely virtual world. If there are virtual objects overlaid on the real world it's augmented reality.
See:
http://www.geekologie.com/2009/06/augmented_reality_zombie_hunti.php
&
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/12/cool_augmented_reality_adverti.php
9. FDSY - July 8, 2009 1:25 PM
Oh yes.
I have something like this. In my house if you wear special goggles swear words and naked self portraits appear everywhere.
It's a super expensive conversation starter
10. LSDiesel - July 8, 2009 1:28 PM
@9, in my house, you remove your clothes and grab a drink. Similar effect for much cheaper.
11. Aaron Rabinowitz - July 8, 2009 1:28 PM
I have something like this too,
I put on these glasses and it makes it look like night time in my place.
It's very cool and only $20
12. naas in southern cali - July 8, 2009 1:29 PM
FIRSTARDATION:
When you have no imagination & absolutely cannot find a better way to tell the world what a loser you really are
VR dinosaurage is FTW, can't wait for the 1st person shooter mod to come out
13. MAN - July 8, 2009 1:29 PM
id masturbate in public to that virtual dino.
14. Timbo - July 8, 2009 1:39 PM
Yeah! What #8 said!
15. pepe la PEW PEW - July 8, 2009 1:42 PM
cool beans ! I want one , but I want two that can pit against each other and we can battle friends
16. ahha - July 8, 2009 1:50 PM
Fake?
17. ahha - July 8, 2009 1:52 PM
30 seconds after this picture was taken, a pizza delivery man showed up with a sausage pizza, made some sort of euphemism and BAM, dino porn. Even with that thing strapped to her face, the lady never saw it coming.
18. Daisy - July 8, 2009 1:57 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. you can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
19. Aaron Rabinowitz - July 8, 2009 2:06 PM
@16 & 18
isn't the point of the whole thing that it is fake?
20. booya - July 8, 2009 2:23 PM
faker than yo date was last nite
21. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 8, 2009 2:24 PM
Don't you see! This is how the robot hive will keep us subservient and then use us as living batteries! KILL IT!
22. STOMPY - July 8, 2009 2:48 PM
@GFS
(Feeling forehead).... yea, you seem to be running a bit of a fever there, i was wondering when you became a anti-robot sympathizer...
23. Daisy - July 8, 2009 3:21 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max and Baja and some kid found themselves in a dinosaur jaw lodged above a lava bath. They used a flare to ignite the magnesium in the walls, and blew themselves up and out of the volcano.
24. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 8, 2009 3:30 PM
Computers will lead us to our doom! Computer programs are running the robot hive! ROBOTS ARE COMPUTERS! BURN YOUR INTERNETS!
@STOMPY
hehehe
25. bman - July 8, 2009 5:33 PM
neat, my username was one symbol away from being included!!! :-D
26. AR - July 8, 2009 5:52 PM
I was going to say it was augmented reality, but @8 already said it :(
27. Jaded Icon - July 8, 2009 6:31 PM
If they throw in a virtual reality chick watching a virtual reality dinosaur I will totally pay for your tick GW. I get the girl and you can have the dino,....... then we switch.
28. Jerry - July 8, 2009 6:31 PM
Ok, you're all right, it's fake...
http://bootelicious.mybrute.com
29. Kraig - July 8, 2009 10:39 PM
This is a clear violation of the VR Dictates. Perusing this course of action will lead to the Grand Collapse. Cease immediately.
30. led display - July 8, 2009 11:33 PM
pretty well ..
31. josh - July 13, 2009 5:15 AM
I'd prefer to see those Japanese dinosaur robots
http://japansugoi.com/wordpress/japanese-robot-dinosaurs-from-aist-%e7%94%a3%e6%a5%ad%e6%8a%80%e8%a1%93%e7%b7%8f%e5%90%88%e7%a0%94%e7%a9%b6%e6%89%80/
32. Rob ot - January 1, 2010 2:02 PM
THIRTY SECOND!!