h a l f b a k e r yClearly this is a metaphor for something.
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Virtual Hotel
Walls are large, high res LED screens with real time views of exotic locations. | |
On a cliff overlooking a beach in Bora Bora, at the summit of
Mount Everest, perhaps halfway submerged on the Great
Barrier Reef watching exotic fish swim by on the lower side
of
the walls and beautiful clouds passing overhead.
All changeable with the click of a switch.
The device placed
at various locations consists of five
cameras
aiming north, south, east, west and up and streams their
images in real time to this hotel's view screen walls. Sit in a
hot tub sipping wine and transferring your location at the
flick
of a remote button to dozens of beautiful locations around
the planet.
When you get bored watching the elephants and
giraffes stroll by in Tanzania, click over to Iguazu Falls and
marvel as the torrents of water cascade around your room.
Ever wanted to stay in the top room of Neuschwanstein
Castle? That's channel 26.
The cameras all have microphones as well so when relaxing
at the end of your day you can be lulled to sleep by sounds
of the Amazon jungle in quintophonic (5 channel) sound as
the sun sets over the canopy.
If you've read it, you know why
https://en.wikipedi...iki/Hyperion_Cantos
And if you haven't, what are you waiting for? [theircompetitor, Dec 29 2016]
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"Stop channel surfing and give me that remote, you're making me dizzy". |
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Of course, with VR goggles you could do away with the hotel entirely. |
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Well, lounging around with a pair of sweaty goggles on
doesn't sound very appealing. |
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So, drink a tequila while you lounge. The savings will still be immense. |
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Well, at some point you might as well ditch the goggles as
well. |
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But posting "Sit in the bathtub and get drunk on tequila"
doesn't sound like you'd get a lot of buns. |
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Although it couldn't do worse than the response I'm getting
with this one. Maybe I should post it to test my theory. |
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Of course, the bathtub could be implemented in software... |
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" Of course, with VR goggles you could do away with the hotel entirely.
— MaxwellBuchanan, Dec 29 2016 " |
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What gets referred to as "virtual reality" should be called "strapping a video phone to your face". |
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If you want me, I'll be out in the flying car. |
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<ponders wisdom of informing [norm] that the "flying car" is only VR, and can't "jump" railway crossings and deep canyons> |
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<determines that keeping quiet is by far the best policy> |
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"Brazil", opium dens, "Who framed Rodger Rabbit?" , Google Maps and sixpence in her shoe. |
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Then turn up the lights and see the unfinished concrete block and rebar interior. |
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