Why don'y VR film makers put on the 'front' view a message saying look behind to get a code for a free Starbucks/pizza/etc? That'd encourage couch potatoes to move, even if it's just their head !!
Posts by Your alien overlord - fear me
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Virtual reality audiences stare straight ahead 75% of the time
Google plans to scrub 'inflammatory' and terror vids from youTube
Insert coin: Atari retro console is coming back
FOIA documents show the Kafkaesque state of US mass surveillance
You wait ages for a sun, then two come along at once: All stars have twins, say astroboffins
Ofcom fines Three £1.9m over vulnerability in emergency call handling
Oh the irony: Government Digital Services can't pay staff because of tech problems
Software dev bombshell: Programmers who use spaces earn MORE than those who use tabs
Fighter pilot shot down laptops with a flick of his copper-plated wrist
Brit hacker admits he siphoned info from US military satellite network
Samsung releases 49-inch desktop monitor with 32:9 aspect ratio
Uncle Sam bungs rich tech giants quarter of a billion bucks for exascale super R&D
Operators and vendors agree that Europe is falling behind in 5G
Facebook tried teaching bots art of negotiation – so the AI learned to lie
Disney mulls Mickey Mouse magic material to thwart pirates' 3D scans
Europe-wide BitTorrent indexer blockade looms after Pirate Bay blow
It's 2017 and someone's probably still using WINS naming. If so, stop
Nokia snatches clump of 16nm FinFETs, crafts 576 Tbps monster router
Currys PC World given a spanking for misleading laptop savings ads
It came from space! Two-headed flatworm stuns scientists
Ever wonder why those Apple iPhone updates take so damn long?
British Airways poised to shed 1,000 jobs to Capita
Marissa! Mayer! out! as! Yahoo!-Verizon! closes!
Discredit a journo? Easy, that'll be $55k. Fix an election? Oh, I can do that for just $400k
France and UK want to make web firms liable for users' content
Specsavers embraces Azure and AWS, recoils at Oracle's 'wow' factor
Sharp claims Hisense reverse-ferreted its US telly licence deal
Lockheed, USAF hold breath as F-35 pilots report hypoxia
German police nick alleged admin of dark web gun sales site
Mac ransomware author is giving away malicious code to script kiddies
Who will save us from voice recog foolery from scumbags? Magnetometer!
IBM warns itself of possible outages in lab shift screw-up
Has riddle of the 1977 'Wow!' signal finally been cracked? Maybe...
DDoS attack brings Qatar's Al Jazeera website to its knees
DUP site crashes after UK general election
Human-free robo-cars on Washington streets after governor said the software is 'foolproof'
Alphabet offloads bot businesses Boston Dynamics and SCHAFT
20 Apple China staff collared for allegedly flogging customers' info
Oh no, Silicon Valley! Failed startup CEO on fraud rap after allegedly bullsh*ting staff and refusing to pay them
Thursday 8th June 2017 23:36 GMT
How long does US banks take for a wire transfer? In the UK, it's literally minutes nowadays (from high street bank to high street bank). If someone showed me a confirmation slip, I'd expect the funds to be in my bank by the time I log in. Not there and I'd be kicking off immediately, not working for another month or however long these guys took to realise they'd been conned.