VR, but it's from 1995.

[@baileyyordnoff2409]

I don't think anything's ever looked more 90s than that cover.

[@bxck]

Totally agreed. That box is worthy of a spot in a museum. It near perfectly sums up the theme of the 90's.

[@huleeyaxerssius7]

Not just 90's, but mid 90's. It just has that certain look to it (along with being made in that time, of course). But either way, certainly is some 90's goodness for sure.

[@wisemysticaltree5646]

​@@huleeyaxerssius7I think it's the weird 3d goo lol

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

To clarify: roughly 1993. Once 3Dfx hit the scene, these VR "scenes" wouldn't have looked so... painfully.... awful.... 😅

[@yeejay6396]

​@@DUKE_of_RAMBLEIdk. We've only ever seen anti-aliasing HDR render footage these days lol!

[@matmatician7]

Anytime an audiophile intentionally clips the mic, it warms my soul

[@yeejay6396]

Indeed

[@Leishy]

Just, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@Mister_Brown]

i love how it sounds when you clip the mic but have actual production values and are only clipping for effect

[@osakanone]

YOU are right

[@Snocone333]

​Bless Clipped Microphones?

[@naikahara]

I love how it got progressively more unhinged as the pages went on, like it went from "this is how professionals use this technology to train pilots and design spaces" to "YO YOU CAN BECOME A WHOLE ASS ALIEN!"

[@Aeduo]

At least it didn't seem to mention buying land in the metaverse so you can collect rent. Unless he just didn't read that part.

[@HealyHQ]

That book predicted furries in VRChat.

[@peterclarke7240]

I mean... Who didn't? We all knew it was gonna happen. 🤣

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

@ 2:00 That Goalie is sayin'........."Why dance, when you can STANCE!!" 😳😆

[@koobs4549]

You can be a whole ass alien in virtual reality but if you’re a white guy, you’re still going to suck at basketball. 😂

[@harmonic5107]

Its hilarious how the 90s screenshots of virtual worlds are still better than cryptoland 😂

[@blakksheep736]

Pffffft.

[@pgp555]

I-I-I I JUST BOUGHT MORE LAND IN THE METAVERSE

[@blakksheep736]

@@pgp555 your loss.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

@ 3:57 That illustration says either "Picasso" or "The new Mr Potatohead is teh-ghey".

[@s8wc3]

@@blakksheep736 Watch my income go up it's about to go nuts

[@alyssa2242]

"You can even change into a reptile in virtual reality." Frank: "look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power."

[@Markandpreston]

109 likes and no comments? Let me fix that.

[@pgp555]

Love the consistency of Dank yelling any time a word is in all caps

[@NcWcN1]

"LOUD NOISES!!!"

[@GalactusTheDestroyer]

THE!!!!

[@spikatrix1486]

FRANK!

[@mochapoke3100]

I have started doing this when reading things aloud. It's a delight

[@SuperVincent0000]

AAA's

[@blackman7437]

Can we just take a moment to congratulate Frank on her new shed?

[@skylovescars69420]

Yes

[@hedgehoggamer5555]

Congratulations, Frank!😄

[@Markyparky56]

Built it herself

[@Ayyuna_chan]

hell yeah she's so cool

[@Sedgwick523]

They'll call her Frank 'Two Sheds' Jackson soon.

[@EdibleGymSock]

There's something poetic about how similar the selling points of VR in 1995 are to the Metaverse's entire marketing campaign.

[@neruwu]

just like the graphical fidelity

[@DonVigaDeFierro]

​@@neruwu Especially the graphical fidelity.

[@the2323guy]

5:14 i want this as my alarm and ringtone

[@zcqm]

Ah VR, the place where you can escape reality into a different reality that is made of polygons and "corporate art" styles

[@greenhowie]

As true today as it always was

[@KimboKG14]

sometimes I wish people could have seen my metaverse worlds. using photoscanned models and textures and building everything with optimization in mind. you can allready built very convincing VR worlds. especially when it's just metaverse worlds. I really don't know why meta just fucked it all up for everyone. microsoft had a very decent metaverse with altspaceVR but meta made them shut it down for their collaboration on mark's metaverse.

[@Exarian]

You know it's a woefully inadequate glimpse at VR spaces considering the complete lack of furries being the only people using it to it's full potential.

[@meidunn]

Just don't play shit VR games. The solution ain't that hard, really. VRChat is poppin' off precisely because it's the thing people ACTUALLY want, not whatever the fuck Zuck is doing.

[@chrisfratz]

Unless it's VR chat, the thing that nobody discussing the metaverse seems to know exists.

[@Silverstorm1997]

Not gonna lie saw the title and instantly though Dankpods was finally talking about the masterpiece that was the Virtual Boy from Nintendo.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

People have suggested it to him and I fully support it, but I also understand that it's not that easy to show off to the viewer what he's doing or seeing. As someone who owns one of those dinguses, it actually can be pretty fun.

[@Silverstorm1997]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio Yeah tbh I can see the issues with filming with a device like that, though I do agree they are really fun to use despite the age and lack of titles on it

[@LuigiGodzillaGirl]

That’s probably going to be a James thing

[@buranflakes]

Ultimate classic system

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

@@Silverstorm1997 I want a remake of Wario Land VB, it's such a well made game but hardly anyone even CAN play it. Plus it would be cool to see how it looks in full color.

[@gibospartan6185]

“Here’s how virtual reality differs from real life: -It allows you to control things that happen around you.” A damning review of real life.

[@itisapineapple]

I was thinking the same thing

[@blakksheep736]

😆

[@Artista_Frustrado]

i love that you could 100% publish this book today & it would sound exactly like VR marketing sounds today at this point i want a Sci-fi setting with robots & space travel... and yet VR is still a "i swear we're getting there in the next 20 years" technology

[@sh4dowchas3r]

Dad voice(I think) "Boys can we get the printing machines to increment the dates automagically each year?... Yes. Well you know what to do."

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

VR is becoming like 3D films. Once every decade and a half everyone goes wild for it, the media claims its here to stay, companies throw millions at it, then people lose interest.

[@HerpilyDerp86]

The shouting at the start of the paragraphs, the screaming images. God this was a great episode.

[@PhilosoraptorXJ]

My mom actually worked with military simulators back in the 90s. She used to work at Fort Knox as a civilian technician for their tank simulators they had. I remember her constantly bitching about how the simulators would constantly glitch out and flip the tanks upside down in the simulation.

[@notmyname983]

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! Just say the simulator has a minefield

[@H8nji]

Sounds like a cool side quest

[@NaokiP72]

The people who wrote this book would probably cry if you put them in vrchat for a couple of hours

[@ambozz3726]

who wouldn't tbf

[@DimT670]

I think they'd just say "yea thats about what i expected"

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

Or say 'sooooo, this is as far as we've gotten, huh' also the people who wrote the book might still be alive. I was in high school in the late 90s. It wasn't that long ago. There are plenty of people alive who are 60-70 years old and not only see what we have now, but have worked in VR for years to get us there...which honestly minus some better graphics isn't that far. VR has never broken out of 'niche'.

[@time.dilation]

like.. in a positive or negative way?

[@NaokiP72]

I meant in a positive way because you can basically do almost everything described within it, but it could really go either way

[@lorenzmaut3708]

For them the idea of progress was a 3D view of the world in VR, and interacting with that world would be natural and perfect. I think if you took someone frozen in time in the 90's and gave them a VR headset of today they would act like: "This is exactly the future I imagined, surely all the people that create 3D art is using this contraption, and most games are made for this system, like rooms filled with this VR thing and people pay to use them"

[@swolfington]

As someone who grew up in the 90s, the most mind blowing part about the whole thing would probably be how the entire computer -everything, battery included - is small enough fit inside the head set itself. Not to mention the graphics/processing power alone, even on something like a Quest, would have been incomprehensibly advanced compared to even the highest of the high end unobtanium workstations of the era.

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

VR arcades do exist, but they're rare unfortunately. I've only ever seen one.

[@maxarothdev7374]

@@cupriferouscatalyst3708 i live by at least 1, and i know of 2 more where i work

[@RichardCJohnson]

I think my favourite thing about this sort of 90s publication is the insane artwork combined with a nice, business-like, serif font. We’re taking this acid trip seriously you know!

[@AnotherFreakingDude]

6:19 The reason for this is probably that to make the 3d photo, they took two screenshots of the software from slightly different perspectives (one having the 9.03 and the other with the 9.04).

[@maxmouse713]

9:25 Nick Arcade was a show that actually existed. In addition to such..."classics" as Monkey Power Banana Surprise, they also featured actual games of the era. I got introduced to a few good games through that show.

[@ArcaneGhost0524]

1:19 it’s always a good day when wade decides to scream violently into the mic

[@gusmansyah3002]

5:15

[@MikeStavola]

8:24 I HAVE INFO ON THAT PHOTO! So, back i the 90s, I went to LSC, and they had a frigging "virtual" game, where you stand in front of a green screen with a camera, and it superimposed you in "virtual worlds" where you can smack around things on a CRT. Really fun for little kids, but it wasn't even very interesting at the time, because it barely worked. In fact, they worked about as well as those knockoff Kinect games that came out about 12 years ago.

[@thexgamer8240]

The 90s was such a unique period. People’s concept of technology back then was leaps and bounds ahead of their time.

[@RiderLeangle2]

Not to mention just that weird duality of you have predictions overly ambitious and we're still so far off from, to predictions just so basic the reality outshines it. This VR book is more on the unrealistically ambitious side but there's so many other examples where you look at it from today's perspective and think "Wow they expected us to have different devices for those things, that's worse than my phone"

[@Ze_eT]

@@RiderLeangle2 Right now, I see a lot of basic predictions outshined by reality. People see one crypto-promoting "virtual" """AI""" ""rapper"" and start talking about how there could be new animated singers in the future, when there's already an entire culture of animated singers and idols in Japan, some of which are widely known beyond Japan like Hatsune Miku. And I don't see those committing blackface because "we thought the singer sounded black" anytime soon. Or a lot of people claiming that NFTs will be the future due to being decentralised, when the reality is that most NFT platforms still are centralised in some way, shape, or form, just without basic customer protection that define other non-crypto centralised platforms. Let's also not forget said NFT platforms often rugpulling their customers, resulting in everyone but the central losing.

[@j_ferguson]

Not only was Jurassic Park made with SGI, the computers in the film were SGI. That super weird file browser in it was actually real too.

[@neonvortex]

it's a UNIX system... i know this!

[@chrisfratz]

The best part about the old 3D glasses is the fact that if you happen to have a pair you can just put them on while watching the video and see the 3D. I have a pair myself so I'm going to be watching this a second time when I get home.

[@chrisfratz]

Also about that mac screenshot, it could have been that they had to take two screenshots for each eye.

[@JamienautMark2]

Got to find my copy of Spy Kids 3 or Shrek 3D

[@ShintaFreeman]

These are the dedications on the book: "This book was written for all the kids who never knew a world without computers, but it is dedicated to Madeline" - H.P.N. "For my uncle, Murray Louis Samuels" -G.M.

[@SilverPrince_]

What's hilarious is that VRChat effectively makes everything this book talks about true :P 90's adults would be overjoyed

[@volundrfrey896]

5:43 I love that both his arms are in front of the harp like that. That's quality compositing right there.

[@brendanmatelan2129]

0:01 your Rolfing of English never fails to amuse me.

[@ParallelSyntax]

6:09 - OS 7.5.X to be exact. I'm very sad for knowing that, I know.

[@alexanderthomas2660]

6:18. What they did there, was probably take one screenshot, move the 3D model a little to create some parallax, and then take another screenshot, and finally blend the red channel of one screenshot with the G+B channels of the other screenshot to end up with the headache goggles image. Unfortunately the clock changed while they were doing this…

[@AnymMusic]

I know it was the tech at the time, but I love how games in the 80s/90s said shit like "lifelike graphics" only to have the entire game made of exactly 3 polygons

[@tvw4951]

We need a channel where you read books in your style, that would be absolutely incredible.

[@LillyP-xs5qe]

4:46 that is a virtuality machine, Arcade VR, from the 90's, based in my current city of Leicester England, the local retro video games museum got all that company old stock in storage but it needs repairs, please send James, we will pay with curry, and trip to Coventry where two tone ska started and the British motorcycle museum in Birmingham, all very close to each other

[@totalphantasm]

I think the minute 3-4 thing is because the 2 separate layers are 2 independent images (likely taken at 2 angles/positions, just using the same picture twice wouldnt create the right effect) so it’s 9:03 in one layer’s screenshot and 9:04 in the second

[@dan_loeb]

there's also scrolling help text at the bottom left overlapping itself because of the merged images

[@cominatrix]

Nick Arcade was a legitimate show for a while in the early 90s. If I remember correctly, players would do trivia and small video game trials to try to win a run in front of a blue screen (because it was that old) being "in" a video game. Presumably it was like a weather screen where the player would look at themselves in the screen to play. Honestly, I thought it was pretty freaking cool for the time.

[@SodlidDesu]

Wade not knowing what Nick Arcade was is hilarious. Dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-DUN-DUN-DUN-DUN - Hold it right there twerp!

[@cominatrix]

@@SodlidDesu youngsters

[@crispin5741]

They just had a TV screen off to the side they had to look at to see what they were doing. If you watch clips you can always see them looking at the monitors. They look like they are bad at the games normally, but given the circumstances.. They are probably doing the best the can with what they were given.

[@Ironman1o1]

@@crispin5741 Yeah. As a kid I always scoffed at them for being so bad. Now I can't imagine the mind fuck it was to try to keep track of your physical self in a blue obstical corse, and your video game self on some screen god knows how far from you.

[@hitthefloorlpu2003]

This was from the 90s and it's still cool today even as vr has improved this book from the 90s is still amazing today only if the inventors of vr saw vr today they would be happy to see what their tech is now

[@aydomac]

1:19 “I can’t feel anything, I’ll take one more” **5 minutes later**

[@burntalive]

2:29 Subnautica in a VR in a nutshell lmao

[@brycely2233]

I really do love this book review, it’s surprisingly appropriate for this channel, and a refreshing form of content that is thoroughly fascinating. Please do more! It’s hilarious to observe the futuristic concepts that people of the past illustrate with their current knowledge and to laugh at their interpretations of aforementioned concepts with COMPOSITE PHOTOGRAPHS. Every freaking one of those is a work of art appealing to my deep fried humor.

[@dujimon]

8:35 Mark Zuckerberg prototype

[@richardswift4196]

They weren't too wrong about the price coming down... the virtuality headsets from the 90s cost about 75,000usd (and were powered by a custom commodore Amiga). I remember trying the virtuality experience in the 90s, which was akin to duct taping 2x CRT monitors to your face and turning the turbo button of the 486 potato off - it was literally 10fps. VR did nearly take off in the 90s (despite the 10fps) - if it wasn't for the failure of the Atari jaguar (a vr headset was in production & missile command 3d apparently supports it) and the implosion of a few backers (I think Escom were one of the failures), things would be very different today. As for some 3d glasses, it looks like red/blue filter glasses. See if you can find a copy of house of the dead overkill next time you're in cashies - should come with a couple of pairs, but whether you want them on your face is another story.

[@zacharymohammedz.s.m.7860]

5:21 Isn't that the home planet for the transformers? How were they able to trademark that?

[@jabbersthekillerrabbit5057]

They might have lost the trade mark from lack of use

[@GingerNingerGames]

What spins me out is that the controller tracking they had in the arcade vr machines in the 90s had about 20ms more latency than the htc Vive trackers. Which is just mind boggling, with the lack of computing power they could still crunch enough data fast enough for reasonably accurate tracking.

[@joanbohlman1679]

I enjoyed this video. It's like angry vaporwave retrospective. We've devolved a long long ways from iPod mods to now the scraps from the book fair. Love it

[@andrewwood3264]

This was by far the most chaotic episode ever... And im here for it

[@humanskull182]

This brought back memories of Christmas time, and all us grandkids would crowd around an old computer monitor and take turns playing some random flight simulator. We thought it was the coolest thing ever.

[@austinm.9832]

That military trainer thing at 3:00 is actually completely mechanical and started out as a carnival attraction

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

Only this man could make an old magazine a funny thing to read. Give him a 1916 military cooking manual and he will upload the funniest video of all his channel. Love you bro

[@theonlybilge]

0:13 Reminder: if you die while wearing Apple's overpriced goggles it will look like your eyes are open and blinking.

[@_Mr.Tuvok_]

7:47 “Why can’t it just be audio!?!” I’ll do you one better: why can’t it just be text?

[@gagekieffer772]

(8:45) I mean you laugh, but with my VR setup I have the option to either: change between thousands of online avatars (a good few of which aren't even human) while hanging out with friends in VRChat, or drive a bus through a desert for 16 hours straight in Desert Bus VR. Of course there are many more options, especially with PCVR, but I just find that comparison a bit funny.

[@Lagrimoso]

I love how they trademarked “CyberTron” as if it wasn’t already a thing in a cartoon from the 80s

[@TwoTwentyNinePM]

This mans screams cure my depression, which is probably worrying.

[@franki1990]

It takes you to the other side of the spectrum, and you become maniac.

[@Col_Mustard]

1:46 "I want to really laugh at this, and I will" 1:48 well, even the "Imagine" seems to have turned into "lmao" to be fair

[@nyusic6699]

@6:56 You don't get it, It's ATMA RS, confidential Audi model from 1989, with all solid colorus as well as performance, also it could fly and cook you dinner

[@HeisenbergFam]

I giggle and kick my feet whenever Dank uploads

[@Corgi-Co.]

Hello again

[@VVilla1n]

hot diggity dawg you hit just the right spot with that joke

[@RoundBaguette]

Hey look, another funny and original KZbin commenter

[@grangesaves33]

I really love the weekly display of the disembodied hands with Australian background voice

[@lilpisser124]

@@grangesaves33 its almost like my disembodied hands when i play vr

[@knifefght]

It's interesting to look at the public perception of VR prior to the release of The Matrix, I feel as if that film must have really changed the view of what VR could be

[@abdelali9279]

8:07 a senile Dankpods when asked about Jamiroquai's 1996 hit song

[@mjrrrrr]

oh my god i had this book as a kid! i got it at one of those in-school book fairs and it blew my little mind 😭😭😭 also can confirm it came with the dorky red-blue paper glasses you’re not missing a thing lol

[@NotOkayChamp]

Holy crap! I used to have that same book back in 2017! Found it at a goodwill and thought it was pretty neat! Thanks for unlocking an old memory for me

[@playstation8779]

Back in the day virtual reality was basically anything on a computer or essentially any screen. Now it's dinosaur tech. XD

[@sludgetrudger]

The fall of 1995 was when I got my 1st windows PC. It was a Compaq Presario 744 CDS. It cost 3000$ CDN dollars. It had a 4x CD ROM drive, 3 1/4 floppy drive, Windows 3.1 (with free 95 Upgrade), 4 MB of RAM, a 90 MHZ Cyrix processor, and a 28.8 modem. I loved this thing. It was the first PC that got me on the internet. Been online ever since. Boy how times have changed. Thanx for the great vid.

[@GoStormPlays]

Dankpods’s Patreon is the best $1 I’ve spent

[@SecretAsianMan2222]

We got two whole BIG SCREAMS this week. Very exciting.

[@calebmenker988]

7:26 he screamed phone lines and my airpod died 💀

[@117johnpar]

Red/cyan 3D glasses are the cheapst things ever. I bought a pair with nice lenses inside metal aviator frames off amazon for like $3 in 2014 and still have them. They're great, makes you crosseyed playing minecraft.

[@Yipper64]

I actually have some uh... "glasses" type things, AV connection and all. Just these ancient things. And they make this *teeny tiny screen* in the distance when you put them on. Obviously you cant see anything else. Wacky they are literally *still selling* that type of thing just now for like $600, because the screen is bigger and slightly transparent.

[@ICanDoThatToo2]

You should have recorded this video in 3D. 8^) So I got out the old redblues, let's if they work: 3:12 Blue/red (red on the right) seems to work, but I had to study the picture for a few minutes. It's really hard to get such wildly different colors to fuse. 5:34 Lolwut. Page glare, colors are off, and WHY IS IT CROOKED. 6:03 Why is the door green? Did they include red/green glasses? But then why are the columns blue? 10:00 Yeah no. Do they even test these things? The red image is practially inverse video from the blue! There's no way to get that to fuse. Ok, that was a waste of time. Thanks anyways.

[@Thatonemetalsonicfan]

Man, imagine the surprise people from the 90’s would be if they saw the moraly questionable games people would make now with vr tech

[@TheDawnofVanlife]

As a high schooler from the 90s, I can say no one is surprised. 90s wasn't so extremely long ago...the writer's of this book are probably still alive tbh.

[@faunatide]

I expect they are not surprised at the direction it took lol

[@Gir558]

The 90's were only 30 years ago, its not some mystical before time that nobody is still around from, you know... most of the "people from the 90's" with any interest in VR have probably already seen those.

[@mrKozmoz]

I have this book somewhere, as I remember buying it back in 5th grade 1995, the hype was real back then, but now it's a reality and I get to experience VR for what it is, by lying down in space with my homies,stoned and all that jazz, talking about life and philosophy

[@GoStormPlays]

I think the reason VR isn’t becoming cheaper is because the tech isn’t really finished. Like the Oculus Quest is cool, but you can see the pixels. Vr hasn’t really completed its goal of being immersive and amazing yet. Once it does, then it can get cheaper. Anyways love the vid!

[@dan_loeb]

there's a lot of crazy high end stuff that just isn't feasible for any commercial products yet, like variable focus lens that allow you to focus on distant or nearby objects. all current and upcoming headsets (including apple's) have you focusing your eyes on a flat screen that is always a set distance away and fully in focus, simulating a fake depth only via stereoscopy, but you can't actually focus on different objects and it's a huge cause of vr sickness and eye strain. meta has three different protype headsets with different ways to combat it, but none are yet viable to bring to market. apple's headset looks interesting, but the camera offset is quite high, you want the cameras directly on top of where the eyes are to minimize sickness with vr/ar passthrough. quest 2's passthrough is pretty terrible too because it's only corner cameras, so center vision is often converged improperly, causing depth perception issues.

[@knyt0]

you cannot see the pixels anymore, unless on a bright single color background

[@TheDiner50]

The reason VR is not cheap or common is quite simple. Original Wii managed to make even proper old people try it out. And it had games focused around friends/family playing together in real life. VR? You got to put on a bulky thing AND figure out the controls AND not get sick AND have a REASON to want it. Even in covid times that was not enough to make people even try it. Only sick people got VR for Half Life Alyx or Job simulator whatever. It is to expensive and NO reason to play or endure it. And Meta whatever try at VR is useless. Because the fact is simply that the ones in charge of it is just after the $ and stealing private data from there 'users'. To sell it to there true costumer base. Or this messed up idea of making a universe THEY have all the rights to. And FORCE you to pay up for pixels. Really VRChat is the only thing that even make half sense. And we all know what VRChat is. If people barely can smartphone game let alone deal with gaming culture/anime *. Like.... Nuff said. The bar of entry is to high. VR time to shine was under covid. It is kinda a shame Vrchat like games did not make a brake trough. Even without a VR headset the idea of making people joining lobbies with virtual people on a 2D screen should have become a big deal. But Meta had to make a joke of the idea. Robot alien Meta. Wii characters in a VrChat like game. It is not rocket science. Most avrage persons laptop can run a Wii like Vrchat. That is how VR takes off. Making people care to get VR after being locked up a year. And focus it around a social platform. DiscordVR? Idk.

[@wiseone2333]

@@dan_loebhave you tried the apple headset you could be hating on it and being completely wrong about it unintentionally

[@dan_loeb]

@@wiseone2333 no i'm stating facts about well documented issues with vr headsets that are still present in apple's headset according to both technical specs and those who have tried it. where was i hating on it? I'm not saying stuff like "it looks goofy as hell and even apples pr photos can't make vr googles look cool like an iphone or watch" i'm stating known problems this headset doesn't address.

[@SadSackGaming]

Fun fact. I played Virtuality a few times and it was as glorious as anything you could imagine, but not as glorious as the splendid Russell Crowe Gladiator prequel, Virtuosity.

[@Kopruch86]

Is this the first video where DankPods is treating a book like a nugget?

[@MisterRose90]

Of course an Aussie would find a shark cute. Spiders are their cats and snakes are their dogs. Sharks are like, what, a goldfish?

[@exzyyd392]

1:29 a picture of a dragon next to the word imagine THE AUTHORS COULD PREDICT THE FUTURE, THEY WERE RIGHT WE ARE THE FOOLS

[@cupriferouscatalyst3708]

Quake, arguably the first proper 3D FPS game ever made, was meant to be a VR MMO with voice commands at one point. Puts into perspective how long VR has been there on the fringes of the tech world, while still being way too expensive to possibly go mainstream.

[@selfloathinggameing]

Dankpods gets closer and closer to being Australian Scott the Woz every episode

[@ambozz3726]

"Can you believe no one bought this?" is just the Australian version of "This game blows!"

[@chalkyi8681]

love this comment

[@WyvernDotRed]

1:45 DON'T YOU DISRESPECT PANZER DRAGOON Joking aside, the game is 8 years older than I am, yet I still somewhat frequently replay it after having found out about it. The artstyle is unique enough that it holds up to this day, though the first 2 games feel dated. Panzer Dragoon Saga still holds up well and is an absolute masterpiece. The actual game renders in 240p and with the first game at 20fps instead of 30, the blurriness of a CRT would make it look better, though I just play with sharp pixels.

[@scootinand]

Someone should make a game that looks like what 90s VR threatened to be

[@machiner6]

Not many come to mind, but the first I can think of would be Immercenary for the 3DO console

[@yungelmo513]

So like Cruelty Squad?

[@blakksheep736]

Key word: THREATENED

[@Louis_Marcotte]

"Why can't this just be audio?" A precursor to "-why can't this just be an e-mail?" Before that, there was mail

[@KingofJ95]

They really made the first point in "How VR differs from real life," "allows you to control the world around you." Like, harshing my buzz, man. Don't need to hit the Free Will button like that.

[@KennyStrife]

That pic from 9:28 that looks like an interactive game show, actually is one. That's from the ancient Nickelodeon show Nick Arcade. Loved that show when I was a kid.

[@the404error7]

Now DankPods must try to acquire a virtual reality simulator from the 1990s.

[@ZA_SavegEaTEr]

Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated comedy film loosely based on the 1990 fairy tale picture book of the same name by William Steig. Directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson in their directorial debuts, it stars Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow as the voices of the lead characters. The film parodies other fairy tale adaptations, primarily aimed at animated Disney films. The story follows the titular Shrek (Myers), an ogre who finds his swamp overrun by fairy tale creatures who have been banished by the corrupt Lord Farquaad (Lithgow) aspiring to be king. Shrek makes a deal with Farquaad to regain control of his swamp in return for rescuing Princess Fiona (Diaz), whom Farquaad intends to marry. With the help of Donkey (Murphy), Shrek embarks on his quest but soon falls in love with the princess, who is hiding a secret that will change his life forever. After purchasing the rights to Steig's book in 1991, Steven Spielberg planned to produce a traditionally-animated film based on the book, but John H. Williams convinced him to bring the project to the newly founded DreamWorks in 1994. Jeffrey Katzenberg began active development of the film in 1995 immediately following the studio's purchase of the rights from Spielberg. Chris Farley was originally cast as the voice for the title character, recording nearly all of the required dialogue. After Farley died in 1997 before his work on the film was finished, Mike Myers was hired to voice the character, eventually settling on giving Shrek a Scottish accent. The film was initially intended to be created using motion capture, but after poor test results, the studio hired Pacific Data Images to complete the final computer animation. Shrek premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or, making it the first animated film since Disney's Peter Pan (1953) to be chosen to do so. The film was widely praised by critics for its animation, voice performances, soundtrack, writing and humor, which critics noted simultaneously catered to both adults and children. The film was theatrically released in the United States on May 18, 2001, and grossed $484 million worldwide against a production budget of $60 million, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of 2001. Shrek won the first ever Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay. It earned six award nominations from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), ultimately winning Best Adapted Screenplay. The film's success helped establish DreamWorks Animation as a prime competitor to Pixar in feature film computer animation, and three sequels were released-Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek the Third (2007), and Shrek Forever After (2010)-along with two holiday specials, a spin-off film, and a stage musical that kickstarted the Shrek franchise. Although plans for a fifth film were canceled prior to the fourth film's release, the project was revived in 2016, but has since stalled, with production and a potential release date getting pushed back. Deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress, Shrek was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2020.

[@KeegoTheWise]

1:53 they really didn’t have high hopes for the future of nhl goaltending back in 1995, did they?

[@Starribruins]

I mean, that’s pretty much binnington, am I right?

[@moohooman]

If only they knew that VR would mostly be people in anime avatars hanging out in neon worlds drinking until the morning.

[@chaoticcatartist]

5:58 that looks like the 1st ephisode of xaixaiviar renegade angle (sorry idk how to spell his name. The dude with snake hands)

[@xT0rn_]

There's this one shop CosyBeats thats promotes that they have Airpods Pro Max apparently and most people say they've been scammed and I'd love to see a review of what they're like. They often have sales and shit so you could find them for 20$ instead of 200

[@brendaneichler5244]

0:43 I warned you about those stairs, bro!

[@10brokenradios]

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

[@ToastyMozart]

VR setups in malls did start to become a thing in the US, but then around 2020 the idea of putting a thing on your face after dozens of other people did the same became somewhat unpalatable.

[@drumcanjones]

2:57 "Tom Scott's done videos on old simulator things" Okay but that's Tom Scott in the picture on the back of the box??? How old is that guy exactly?

[@vxidastronaut]

i had this a kid from scolastic book fare! i still have it with my 3d glasses collection, wherever that tub is...

[@FixerUK]

Frank's like a caterpillar at the moment, waiting for the time to burst out of her cocoon and go "TA DA!, I'm still a snake" 🐛+🐍 =🐍

[@ek_films]

6:09 Mac OS 8 came out in 1997, so this is likely System 7.

[@drpenguin57]

3:34 even microsoft flight simulator in 1995 had better graphics than that lol

[@LordofDiamondsMetal]

1:19 best Dankpods screech I've heard in a while

[@DeltonAdamsLEGO]

Who else's day just instantly got better when seeing a DankPods video?

[@The_Sonic_FR_23]

I suck with words, so I usually don't comment, but I'm absolutely always here whenever ya upload, mate, your videos are so amazing because they are genuine, as it would be if we were in a room talking. Just amazing, I feel like we'd be good friends. As for this video, it was hilarious, yeah, it's so good to see how unhingedly crazy the whole thing is, yet VR is still basically at the same point it was in back then, just way prettier and actually usable. I love this. Also, congrats to Frank for her new shed, ya gots it, girl ! Oh, and, one last thing. I love ya, mate, but stop saying Sanic.