Using Samsung Gear VR to Revolutionize the Restaurant Experience

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Samsung wants you to wear a VR headset while you are dining out at a restaurant. At first I thought this was a joke but it's not. The company is dead serious.

Now imagine that all of this occurred without leaving the Ibiza hotel, or the seat you were in. The magic you see, hear, taste, smell and feel comes from virtual reality technology. By using Samsung Gear VR, restaurants can take the already sensory experience of dining to a new level. While there is a wow factor to using this cutting-edge technology, the impact of virtual reality is a natural fit for restaurants that want to create a complete experience around a meal, not just serve a plate of food.
 
Oh wait j get it now. They want you to smell and eat the actual food while seeing something else with VR. Nothing says hot date like two people wearing VR goggles.
 
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You dine on the first course of the meal in a garden in Tuscany, surrounded by flowers with a winery in the distance. You adjust your Samsung Gear VR glasses as a cool wind blows and you catch the rich fragrance of the gardens. But when your main course arrives, you now find yourself underwater with dolphins playing and fish swimming. Your Italian table setting has been transformed into an underwater experience and the light in the room has changed to reflect the underwater scene. You can even see bubbles arising from your drinks and water splashes on the table in 3D.

Now imagine that all of this occurred without leaving the Ibiza hotel, or the seat you were in. The magic you see, hear, taste, smell and feel comes from virtual reality technology. By using Samsung Gear VR, restaurants can take the already sensory experience of dining to a new level. While there is a wow factor to using this cutting-edge technology, the impact of virtual reality is a natural fit for restaurants that want to create a complete experience around a meal, not just serve a plate of food.
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They make it sound like it's a neural implant, William Gibson style, straight out of Neuromancer... instead of what it really is: optics and a screen attached to your face.

These marketing assholes are going to ruin the new wave of head mounted display technologies with this inane crap, super-hype, and misunderstanding about the technology and products themselves.
 
You know what could work? AR with the menu showing how the meal can look in 3d on your table. By looking through the menu and having it seem like a window into your future meal.
 
This is Bill. Bill uses Samsung VR on a date. Bill wont be invited for freaky sex later tonight.


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viscountalpha said:
What if said freaky sex involves the Samsung VR? It would be like putting a paper bag over each others heads.
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Or it would be like Demolition Man. For all we know he's using his samsung headset in a Taco Bell(because everything is Taco Bell).
 
viscountalpha said:
What if said freaky sex involves the Samsung VR? It would be like putting a paper bag over each others heads.
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I can see it now

"Every 4 instantly becomes a 10 with Samsung VR partner program*"


*note 10 only applies to actual looks, if you pick up a fatty she'll still feel like a fatty to your hands.
 
They are fucking joking right?
Oh yeah.....slathering food all over your face because you cant see it......all the while thinking your so cool.
With a phone strapped to your head.....jesus save me.
Id actually enjoy watching two idiots try this in a public place.
 
magoo said:
They are fucking joking right?
Oh yeah.....slathering food all over your face because you cant see it....
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I dunno..I can eat with my eyes closed just fine. It's getting the food on the utensil that will prove the hard part.
 
magoo said:
They are fucking joking right?
Oh yeah.....slathering food all over your face because you cant see it......all the while thinking your so cool.
With a phone strapped to your head.....jesus save me.
Id actually enjoy watching two idiots try this in a public place.
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Jesus is too busy laughing too save you.
 
So the person next to you could be like a 400lb fat chick but as long as her voice is nice, she doesn't stink, and the VR of her is rendering a hot chick like the AMD girl then your SET!
 
Funny the "transform your date" idea is kicked around here. When we were experimenting with the Google Glass, we somehow got into a lunch conversation about using AR to have a dream date with anyone you wanted.

Basically, we'd sell "face skins" - using image recognition and the skins, look at your ugly partner and suddenly - it's a hottie (or whatever your preference). The glass would render the face you wanted to see over the other persons face. There would be a lot of in-app purchases to buy different faces (or bodies I suppose).

The porn industry could license models. Want an unlicensed Jennifer Lawrence? Creepier - take a picture of the office hotty without them knowing and use that with Glass. I can see the lawsuits already...
 
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Woman: Put your phone down we are eating.]
 
Has the human race yet reached the point of being too stupid to live?
 
awesome we can now enjoy a 3d dining experience. 3d menu, 3d visual stimulation and why not put a cone off the front of this to 3D print out your meal.

This concept looks as fun as those scratch and sniff patches in hustler magazine decades ago.
 
As someone who is really looking forward to VR for gaming, this looks as stupid as it can get.

This picture needs to be preserved for future historians however.
 
People on average don't want to wear these stupid things in their own homes. What on earth makes samsung think people want to wear them in public?
 
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I said "could you keep you hands off your fucking cell phone for one fucking meal." You KNOW that wasn't what I meant you piece of shit. I'm calling my lawyer, I'm done!
 
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