Have you heard of the Virtual Boy, which tried to do VR decades ago (back in 1995) and was a flop?

Anyway, here's another one:

Years ago, I would not have predicted that I would be performing video game music while wearing a dress.

Edit: Why is this "low rated"?

All that sounds like is avoiding the question of how a minor is allowed a make a decision that has the potential to ruin their life.
And why any change of gender should be allowed before sexual maturity.
Answer me those two questions and I'm all in with parents loving their actual child, whatever that means.

how good and varied and mainstream games of today are. there is now something for anyone and everyone, from "casual grandmas" to "basement-dwelling hardcore gamers"

That I would spend a significant amount of time playing indie games

World of Goo I think dropped the first serious hint that that would turn out to be the case

That there would still be people who believe:

* The world is actually flat.
* The Sun is turning around the world
* The Sun is turning around the "moon"
* Seasons are caused by the elliptic route of the world.
* That humanity has discovered everything to know.
* The technology advancement (mostly computer) is concluded / has come to an end / can not be improved any more...etc

..in the 21th century.

Fifteen years ago I got yelled at by a coworker for suggesting the world was more than 6000 years old. She called the fossil record and carbon dating a hoax. XD

Actually she didn't really yell at me, it was worse than that; kind of a condescending, "Oh don't be stupid, of course the fossil record is fake."

Damn Argonians... I mean Reptilians. First shunned on Tamriel, now purportedly under cover on Earth.

I thought we had the well established Illuminati conspiracy to fill out that gap, but no, apparently other fellow humans pulling the strings is not enough for some people.

And right she is. Everybody knows it was faked by Loki. The goal was to make humans believe that dragons had died out millions of years ago, while they were secretly taking over the world.

That peak-oil still hasn't brought the world wide crash I thought would happen by 2015 or so.

The big difference, I think, is that VR this time works. For instance, this body swap experiment:
https://www.wired.com/2014/02/crazy-oculus-rift-experiment-lets-men-women-swap-bodies/

Couldn't do THAT with a Virtual Boy!

Later on we need a thread of stuff people predicted incorrectly.

Reminds me of the time some older woman told me about some bunny that lays eggs.

(Actually, in general, there's some tendency of people to assume that others are like them; religions beliefs are one example of this, as becomes evident if you're an atheist (like me) and other people mention "god" as if such a thing exists.)

I would be curious what would would happen if this experiment were done with transgender individuals (in all stages of transition), and how their experiences with this sort of experiment would compare to a control group of cisgender individuals. Maybe somebody should do that experiment?

Edit: hap[pen -> happen (removed stray [ character)

Edit 2: Why is this "low rated"?

Actually we are amidst that crash.

Stuff I didn't fail to predict:

This thread will get locked and/or deleted, just like that "racism is BattleTech thread".

I had hoped there would be nearly as much disdain for 3D technology in movies than there is disdain for those obnoxious VR apparatuses. Time will bring us there, I guess.

At the core of it... this isn't a new technology. They've been trying to push this nonsense on us one way or other for 30 years.

Here's a blast from the past for you on the topic.
https://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/why-3d-doesnt-work-and-never-will-case-closed


The late Roger Ebert doesn't agree. :)