That one (assuming it’s the same as your memory) was basically just a concave dome and you wore like socks. This seems pretty different.
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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Wait, pretty sure I saw this demonstrated by a small startup almost 20 years ago.
treadful@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The one I remember looked almost exactly like this.
It was pretty exciting to see, thought for sure it would take 10 years to come to market. That was about 2008 ish.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Pretty sure companies like that get bought by companies like Disney…
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Disney also employs badass engineers they call ‘imagineers’. I got contacted by recruiting for that but didn’t have enough personal just for fun engineering projects in my portfolio to land it
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Still cool to have been contacted by their recruiters at all for such a neat job!
variants@possumpat.io 8 months ago
Until the mouse shows up expecting more results, or like xerox with early computers where they basically had everything figured out but corporate just didn’t get it so they just gave everything to apple