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'Screaming nightmare': William Shatner boldly goes into VR
The Guardian ^ | August 31, 2018

Posted on 08/31/2018 3:52:54 PM PDT by SMGFan

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To: FreedomPoster

Still waiting for my flying car


21 posted on 08/31/2018 5:22:35 PM PDT by xp38
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To: snuffy smiff

Yeah he did good onBoston Legal. To me my favorite character on the show.


22 posted on 08/31/2018 5:24:41 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: piytar
Sorry all the cast and crew though Bill was a serious asshole, Spock included. And James Doohan couldn't take him either. Out of all of them, Doohan is the only on with any balls. Landed a craft on D-Day, shot 5 times and had his finger on his right hand blown off!

"Diplomacy! The only good diplomat is a fully loaded phaser bank!"

23 posted on 08/31/2018 5:34:45 PM PDT by Bommer (Help out 2ndDivisionVet and his wife - https://www.gofundme.com/married-recent-amputees)
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To: sheana

Did he drown some of his soon to be ex’s? Because Shatner did.


24 posted on 08/31/2018 5:35:21 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

you’re being harsh, he only drowned one


25 posted on 08/31/2018 5:38:32 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: xp38
It’s the Dick Tracy 2-way wrist radio of a 1960s childhood brought to life.

I’m pretty sure that Dick Tracy had his 2-way wrist watch in the 1930s.

26 posted on 08/31/2018 5:58:41 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: xp38
Still waiting for my flying car

Personally, I think it is a really bad idea.

Way too many people have enough trouble navigating a car in two dimensions to put them in a car that can navigate in three dimensions.

27 posted on 08/31/2018 6:02:49 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Pontiac

I didn’t have a childhood in the 1930s, I’m not that old.


28 posted on 08/31/2018 6:08:22 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Neither did I.

But if you have read the comic or saw the really bad movie (Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino. One of my personal worst movies of all time) you know the setting of the stories is prohibition in the 1930s.

The comic was first started in the 1930s.


29 posted on 08/31/2018 6:29:04 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: piytar

Priceless!


30 posted on 08/31/2018 8:02:46 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Most of the cast were a bit ‘off’ but he took it to an entirely new level!


31 posted on 08/31/2018 8:05:54 PM PDT by snuffy smiff (Build the Wall and build it tall, then build a gallows and hang them ALL!)
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To: Bommer

Crossing between command posts at 11:30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren Gun by a nervous Canadian sentry: four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case given to him by his brother. His right middle finger had to be amputated, something he would conceal on-screen during most of his career as an actor.

From Wikipedia


32 posted on 08/31/2018 8:33:38 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: sheana

The voices in my head won’t stop talking to me, but they’re speaking Spanish and I can’t understand them.


33 posted on 08/31/2018 9:40:16 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: sheana

The voices in my head won’t stop talking to me, but they’re speaking Spanish and I can’t understand them.


34 posted on 08/31/2018 9:40:27 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: SMGFan

To those that may be interested...

https://williamshatnerfanclub.com/


35 posted on 08/31/2018 10:00:32 PM PDT by kanawa (Trump Loves a Great Deal)
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To: longfellow

Did he tell him “Shut up Wesley”???

(I always despised that character, like the Ewok of STNG)

(Deanna, on the other hand, can beam down to my planet anytime...)


36 posted on 08/31/2018 10:09:49 PM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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Bkmk


37 posted on 09/01/2018 4:09:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Moonman62; All
Of course this was a backhanded kind of ad for Ziva.

Shatner is brilliant at this kind of stuff. Remember Priceline. He made a small fortune on Priceline.

Shatner has an eye for up and coming tech/ideas/companies. And he is excellent at create buzz about those things.

Here, Shatner is introducing the world to Ziva Dynamics and Ziva is pretty dynamic.

As far as I can tell, Shatner is referring to Ziva's work in building character animations by starting with accurate skeletal structure and then adding, in sequence, muscle, fascia, fat, skin, and hair. This animation is accurate right down to the way the skin and fat and muscle react to elemental force that are present in their environment (like wind and gravity).

Here are some very short videos that illustrate how Ziva's work produces incredibly lifelike animated creatures:

Create Realistic Character Animation with Ziva Dynamics

'Zeke The Lion' - by ZIVA VFX

ELEMEX Creature with ZIVA VFX Dynamics (This might be the monster Shatner is referring to)


38 posted on 09/01/2018 5:41:27 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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BTW, Ziva Dynamics kind of tech coupled with VR is going to elevate porn far above the actual human experience.

I think it's going to have a devastating effect on humans. This kind of stuff will separate humans into two distinct camps (as far as human sexuality goes).

In one camp will be the addicts (porn/sex is a powerful drug with tentacles reaching right into the soul). And in the other camp will be the Luddites (consisting of both old fashioned couples of men/women and celibates/asexuals).

I think we can imagine which group will be larger.

We are on the cusp of entering a brave new world of perversion.

39 posted on 09/01/2018 5:51:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: Pontiac

Just what we need. Thousands of Sport Pilots flying through already crammed airspace on the way to work.


40 posted on 09/01/2018 7:22:21 AM PDT by pabianice
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