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Wed, Aug 26th, 2015
Jimmy Kimmel’s VR Facebook Nightmare
One of the late-night Jimmies — the Kimmel one — did a sketch about Facebook and virtual reality last night. It was funny! He’s got one job, and he did it.
Kimmel put on a headset to try an ersatz VR version of Facebook and found himself being inundated with invasive physical pokes, love-struck new dads, a goofy mom catching onto memes via her daughter, FarmVille requests and an angry uncle complaining about immigration. “I don’t like the 3-D experience, ” he yelps, ripping off the headset and flinging it to the floor. (Hey! That’s an expensive piece of hardware!)
Read the full story at Re/Code by Amy Keyishian