madcapv
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4:18 · 1.2M views · Jun 12, 2017
A scene from Silicon Valley season 4 episode 8 featuring Keenan Feldspar's VR product.
Posted as a joke in threads about VR hardware, failed consumer tech, and GenAI hype.
3 comments from Hacker News
You earned my upvote with the PKD 3SOPA reference. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Luckey: an evil alt-right-wing extremist pulling the wool over people’s eyes with his robotic right hand, artificial eyes, and steel teeth, who returned from an expedition to the Prox system in possession of a new alien hallucinogen Chew-Z to compete with Can-D, to perpetrate an uncanny creepy plot about adults on drugs playing together with physical miniaturized doll houses in order to escape their dystopian existence by retreating into to a mega-corporation controlled virtual reality. [LINK] Silicon Valley Keenan Feldspar's VR (S4E8) this video Silicon Valley (HBO) - HooliVR Goggles (Phone Exploding) S04E09 [LINK]
> But then I told it that I wanted to leave, got to an inn, where I flirted with the bar waitress, and soon we were watching the sunset in some meadow. Immediate Silicon Valley vibes: this video
Reminds me of Silicon Valley's fictional Keenan Feldspar and his VR demo (likely based on Magic Leap): this video