VR Bedtime Stories
It’s designed to give parents the ability to read bedtime stories to their children within the boundaries of a virtual reality environment. In the accompanying promo video, the child wears a Google Cardboard headset and the parent wears Gear VR—the kid’s includes a playful character mask—and they can interact with each other even if they’re miles apart. (You can tour the app’s virtual world in a 360 degree video.)
The shitty reality is that we need to do this in the first place, because for a lot of parents, it’s not feasible to sit next to little Susie every night and read her a bedtime story. The future may be bleak, but the gadget, in this case, is only trying to help.
Perhaps we’ll just have to wait for teleportation. Or, you know, a decent parental leave policy.
See the full story here: https://www.youtube.com/embed/dKjwazpmS-w?wmode=transparent&rel=0&autohide=1&enablejsapi=1&showinfo=0&start=0