A Swedish Internet service provider has created an ad to demonstrate how terrible slow Internet speeds are, with a viral video that uses the Oculus Rift.
The company, Umea Energi put the Oculus Rift, paired with a webcam and a Raspberry Pi, to create a lag in the way people perceive the world.
The end result is not conducive to making eggs.
Or bowling.
Watch the full video below.
Maria Korolov is a science fiction writer who covers cybersecurity, AI and extended reality as a tech journalist at her day job. Check out her author page on Amazon or follow her on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn. Her first virtual world novella, Krim Times, made the Amazon best-seller list in its category. Her second novella, The Lost King of Krim, is out now. She is also the publisher of MetaStellar, a new online magazine of speculative fiction.
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