Apple introduced its new Vision Pro virtual reality/augmented reality goggles for the eye-popping price of $3500. But maybe you can save that money.
Virtual Reality? You’re Soaking In It.
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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Nature bats last. I don’t remember who said it first, but I think about it more and more. I also think about things like the Cascadia Subduction Zone. When it goes? Your mileage may vary, but, basically, that part of the West Coast will move about two feet. Something like 15 to 30 minutes after the earthquake, the tsunami will arrive. The people trapped in the wreckage will drown. The people who had the luck to be outside (and who weren’t crushed by debris)? They will have, maybe, five minutes before the cold equations kick in: you have to stop digging in the rubble (for your wife, your kids, your pet, your iPhone, whatever) and you have to run for your life to the highest ground you can find because that wall of water will be at least 40 feet high. But even if it’s only a couple of inches high, it will have enough force to knock you off your feet.
I really do wonder how many people in the Portland and Seattle areas, resplendent in their self-Borging by Apple, will even have a ghost of a whisper of a sense of what to do. They know everything about tech and VR and they’ll probably just wander in circles “I can’t get a signal!”
Water always wins, and nature always bats last.