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Vrealities.com - Is this site a scam/joke? + JIM BLACKHALL

Posted: 17 Dec 2009, 11:23
by Spectralancer
http://www.vrealities.com/

Have any of you been to vrealities.com? It's straight out of 1995, yet claims to serve a plethora of ultra high-profile clients. Everything they sell looks ridiculously outdated, like this :lol::

http://www.vrealities.com/vrmotionchair.html

- Look at that GIF, yes a GIF, seriously WTF? Anyone who pays $4000 for a rocking chair is braindead. So what's the deal with this site? I'm seriously confused. One thing I did find interesting is the X-Gun:

http://www.vrealities.com/x-gun.html

Seems ridiculously overpriced, though. I wonder how it compares to Jim Blackhall's homebrew Game Gun ($250 preorder):

http://www.destructoid.com/awesome-wireless-game-gun-won-t-make-you-better-at-games-146730.phtml

That guy is amazing.

Those are the only two universal gun devices I've ever seen. Ideally, I'd like to use one with three projectors, with a trackIR and 3rd Space, so maybe I could buy Jim's, without the LCD. I'd really like some thoughts on this, because there is NO information online.

Re: Vrealities.com - Is this site a scam/joke? + JIM BLACKHALL

Posted: 18 Dec 2009, 16:37
by Tamlin
Looks like this place is for especially interested. I read about one that made a room look like the command bridge of startrek. :P

Re: Vrealities.com - Is this site a scam/joke? + JIM BLACKHALL

Posted: 20 Dec 2009, 03:47
by suiken_2mieu
I have to agree, that most of that stuff is crap. We can do more with Cameras, and wiimoste, and gyromouses and such

Re: Vrealities.com - Is this site a scam/joke? + JIM BLACKHALL

Posted: 20 Dec 2009, 14:48
by g00seberry
I've been thinking about this since he posted it and I still can't figure out whether this is spam, a joke/scam site or real. Either way, it shows how important the aesthetics of a site is to its authenticity.

Re: Vrealities.com - Is this site a scam/joke? + JIM BLACKHALL

Posted: 20 Dec 2009, 19:49
by Tamlin
Thats true and its easy to think this is not a real site from the looks of it. I did a check and they have a whois record since 1999:
Record expires on 07-Jul-2010.
Record created on 07-Jul-1999.
http://whois.domaintools.com/vrealities.com

Re: Vrealities.com - Is this site a scam/joke? + JIM BLACKHALL

Posted: 22 Dec 2009, 15:02
by Spectralancer
Looks like this place is for especially interested. I read about one that made a room look like the command bridge of startrek. :P


I don't see how. Even with unlimited money, there's just no reason to buy from them because everything they sell is outdated. I'm thinking it's a joke site now. Do you have a link to the Star Trek bridgeroom?

Re: Vrealities.com - Is this site a scam/joke? + JIM BLACKHALL

Posted: 23 Dec 2009, 00:29
by Mergatroid
It's a scam.

http://www.vrealities.com/x-gun.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/act-labs-gs-gun-system