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Between My Face and your face

I'd stopped at the big box electronics emporium for a gift, and as I browsed, something caught my eye.

It was a demo headset, a virtual reality jobbie, one designed to take one of the giant Android slab-phones and turn it into an immersive 3D experience. Virtual reality, right there on a table to be sampled. I'd never experienced VR, and so on it went.

It wasn't much at first. Just floating menus, and a couple of simulation programs that failed to run each time I fired them up. One after another, they crashed. It felt very beta, a rush-to-market job.