90s VR Sainsbury's [video]

What on earth.

I started thinking, how could this ever make sense. I could see a setup where there are booths or something with VR headsets at the front of the store, and the rest of the building is a warehouse. This would eliminate the whole public store, except for the area with the headsets. Still not sure how much sense this makes. Or how much I'd want to put on a public use VR headset in a Wal-Mart. But it makes a little more sense then doing this at home.

*edit: I was really hoping they'd throw the milk across the store.

We already solved efficient online shopping, without needing to implement constraints like physics.

Also I'm very uncomfortable with Walmart knowing what's in my fridge and recommending putting the gallon of milk back.

https://twitter.com/DavidMarakXR/status/1586997483049287680?...

This can only make me think of this nightmarish Hyper-Reality video from 2016.

BT knew in the 70s that fibre would be the best way forward, spun up factories to manufacture it, made it cheaper to lay than copper at the time. By the start of the 90s they were ready to start rolling it out locally, presumably in a FTTP configuration since it was cheaper than copper.

Thatcher didn't like that BT had a monopoly on the UK network, a monopoly she created by privatising them. So it was deemed anti-competitive for BT to roll out fibre nationwide, since she wanted to encourage private American companies to start building networks.

Makes you wonder what our internet would be like today, perhaps as good as South Korea.