Are there any good April Fools jokes today? For example, a few years ago Google announced a sewage based ISP (i.e. flush some fiber optic cable down the toilet and they would fish it out and connect it).
Did they? I know it let you make weird machines; I don't remember a VR one though. But I also totally forgot Labo was a thing until you mentioned it so π€·π»ββοΈ
Personally, I really liked it. I would strap it to my head and lay in bed to play Mario Tennis and... Metal something? It was like a robot SHMUP where you flew forward into the action, so to speak. Only two games I had for it. Played more tennis than the other one since the other one gave me the same kind of motion sickness that VR now does when I try to move without actually moving. lol
There used to be a fun store called Think Geek that would announce a bunch of new products on April 1st. Some were clearly impossible, some they were actually planning to launch (usually more mundane stuff like shirts), some were things that were more βthis is a joke but if enough people like it/express interest weβll see if we can actually manufacture it/license the IP.β I liked the site and realized only a few months ago that I hadnβt seen anything from them in a long time. They were independent, then bought by the parent company of Slashdot but kept operating largely as normal, then were eventually sold to Hot Topic and I think thatβs when it kind of went away. Looks like their site now redirects to GameStop.
Itβs a shame; they had fun, often unique stuff. Since GameStop didnβt seem to keep that stuff Iβm not sure what buying Think Geek got them that they couldnβtβve just done on their own.
I was familiar. I even have some stuff still; shirts and desk toys. At one point they sold an external PC bay drive made by Thermaltake that was a literal cupholder/ashtray with a car style cigarette lighter that, supposedly, was functional. I never actually plugged it in though (put it in my PC, but didn't plug the lighter into the molex connector).