Did Virtual Reality Just Have Its Google Glass "Shower" Moment? | TechCrunch

Did Virtual Reality Just Have Its Google Glass “Shower” Moment? | TechCrunch

Search Search Posted yesterday It was a developer-only program. What could go wrong? In the early days of Glass, numerous folks close to the project complained openly to me about one thing over and over again. Why would someone give a pair of Glass to well-known technology evangelist and former Microsoft employee Robert Scoble? I knew exactly what they were talking about. The “shower” incident. And the photo. Oh, the horrible horrible photo: There are many who still work at Google who shudder at the thought of Glass in the shower with Scoble. In a way, it stalled all of the goodwill momentum the company had built up around the futuristic project. Here it was, on this regular guy’s face. In the shower. Getting ruined. For no real reason, honestly. Glass was now for nerds. Geeks. They were a toy. A joke. Today? Virtual reality might have had its “shower moment.” An upcoming Time magazine cover , featuring Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus Rift, made its debut: Uh oh.

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