remind
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| Awesome things you've only done once and will never do again |
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This is kinda inspired by the drunk guy/shark thread. The first thing that came to mind for me is:
Seeing Michael Jordan play live.
Let's hear it. Remember, you've done it just once and you have to know that you'll never do it again. (Let's keep it to unique things... no "graduating high school" answers. You jokers.) |
Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:59 pm |
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medicineman
HALFLING
Joined: 21 Apr 2007
Posts: 1393
Location: Iowa City |
| Re: Awesome things you've only done once and will never do a |
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remind wrote:
This is kinda inspired by the drunk guy/shark thread. The first thing that came to mind for me is:
Seeing Michael Jordan play live.
Let's hear it. Remember, you've done it just once and you have to know that you'll never do it again. (Let's keep it to unique things... no "graduating high school" answers. You jokers.)
Hang out with Eyedea. =( |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:01 pm |
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iammessage
Joined: 10 Aug 2009
Posts: 655
Location: ZOO DIRT, OH |
done both of those ^^^^
ill also probably never "" "" again
climb Mt Snowden
Climb Dunns River Falls
dance on stage with Sage |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:28 pm |
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anomaly
Loserface
Joined: 22 May 2008
Posts: 2393
Location: DFW, TX |
Salvia and tossing a salad; they were both an experience, but not for me
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:36 pm |
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the mean
Certified O.G.
Joined: 31 Jul 2003
Posts: 6486
Location: philly/sacto/kauai/ohio |
Get married. |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:36 pm |
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RoNn1e
Joined: 16 Aug 2003
Posts: 3901
Location: MI. |
the mean wrote:
Get married.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww! |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 1:39 pm |
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erich
Joined: 15 May 2005
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lived in san francisco. |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:09 pm |
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zagadka
DARK PAST HAVER
Joined: 30 Nov 2004
Posts: 4930
Location: Hous of Gaga |
pooped my pants. |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:28 pm |
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the mean
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Joined: 31 Jul 2003
Posts: 6486
Location: philly/sacto/kauai/ohio |
zagadka wrote:
pooped my pants.
You must have matured pretty quickly. |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:37 pm |
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remind
Joined: 22 Jun 2008
Posts: 2168
Location: NJ |
zagadka wrote:
pooped my pants.
Done this twice. |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:41 pm |
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Mark in Minnesota
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Posts: 1895
Location: Saint Louis Park, MN |
On an independent study field trip in 1993 or so, I got to play with then-current VR gloves and goggles in the University of Minnesota's Human Factors Research Lab. I remember having a distinct impression of my ears, skin, and feet being in one place while the rest of me was physically somewhere else. I've never gotten that sensation back in any modern media experience. |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:46 pm |
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the mean
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Joined: 31 Jul 2003
Posts: 6486
Location: philly/sacto/kauai/ohio |
Mark in Minnesota wrote:
On an independent study field trip in 1993 or so, I got to play with then-current VR gloves and goggles in the University of Minnesota's Human Factors Research Lab. I remember having a distinct impression of my ears, skin, and feet being in one place while the rest of me was physically somewhere else. I've never gotten that sensation back in any modern media experience.
I have no idea what you are talking about here. |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:47 pm |
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T-Wrex
p00ny tang
Joined: 30 Jun 2002
Posts: 6175
Location: Detroit, Michigan |
anomaly wrote:
Salvia
Same here.
Weirdest 12 minutes of my life...
It was such a roller coaster of a mind fuck...
but I think I might do it again.
cuz it was indeed kinda awesome.. |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:49 pm |
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Mark in Minnesota
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
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VR == virtual reality.
Staff working in the lab put me in a piece of headgear that weighed several pounds and went on the head to cover the eyes. Each eye saw an independent video screen, and the two video screens were stereoscopically calibrated to give the visual sense of a three dimensional space. No peripheral vision back into the rest of the room, but the screens were big enough to give a pretty good sense of peripheral vision anyway -- not quite full range but not pure tunnel vision either. Each eye probably had about 90 degrees of viewing, and IIRC they overlapped to give something like 120 degrees total.
My hands went into big clunky wired gloves that used instrumentation tracking the 3D movement of my hands and fingers to give me a way to physically interact with that virtual three dimensional space. I could reach out, see my hand move around, and push objects around. No sense of touch or even resistance, but a real sense of being in that digital place.
I was only in the system for a couple of minutes but when I got up I was physically dizzy and motion sick for a few seconds. This was a common enough thing that the staff warned me not to try to walk too far after standing up.
The image fidelity was a great deal poorer than even something like Minecraft today, but the experience was still incredibly vivid and real-feeling.
3D movies don't feel like that. Video games don't feel like that. Flight simulators, immersive arcade games, etc -- none of it feels like that. |
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Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:59 pm |
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Eric B
Joined: 30 May 2005
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Location: Omaha, Ne |
Scuba diving. It was freaking cool being under water and seeing all kinds of things humans weren't meant to be around. But it totally fucked up my left ear and now I can't hear as well. |
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