Ridicule of the Day: The Internet Rightfully Mocks Time Magazine's VR Cover

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  Here's the original cover

  
  
  
  It features Palmer Luckey, the 22-year-old inventor of the Oculus Rift and CEO of the parent company Oculus, which Facebook bought last year for $2 billion.
  
  Luckey has usually been pretty vocal about the difficulty in touting VR to the mainstream audience. And since the first consumer version of Oculus Rift will release in the beginning of 2016, you'd think he'd not add to that difficulty...
  Via Time
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  In the short times since it's release, the cover has caused quite a stir among VR enthusiasts

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  Check out the new TIME cover/article on VR and Oculus Rift. pic.twitter.com/61rnkvkvft

  — Gabriel Verdon (@gabrielverdon) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  The Time images about VR make the article look like an SNL sketch making fun of tech people (via @shegeekshow) pic.twitter.com/KYCsbmFKb3

  — Ben Kuchera (@BenKuchera) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  Oh my days that Time VR cover is absolutely awkward as heck. I don't know whether to laugh or cry D: https://t.co/fqg53GCIag

  — Jason Tuyen (@xanjos) August 6, 2015
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  To many, this only harkened back to unbelievable technology hype of bygone years

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  Preview for @TIME's next game-centric cover pic.twitter.com/62K9nPi0E9

  — Griffin McElroy (@griffinmcelroy) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  .@TIME covers: Cyberpunk '93 (exoticizing) / Cyber War '95 (fear-mongering)/ VR 2015 (WTF? mocking?) pic.twitter.com/iHW64Syvp6

  — Lisa Adang (@L_adang) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  I just assumed that Time Magazine VR cover was from the 1990s.

  — Alex Pasco (@alexpalex) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  RT: omegalbagel: #time #radical #oculusrift pic.twitter.com/sX2WwnMvMG http://t.co/bGAOBmMasf

  — Gagfire (@GagFire2015) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  That Time VR cover HAD to have been made with the express purpose of being an ironic sweater 20 years from now. pic.twitter.com/9QQ9UyvgIg

  — Anthony Carboni (@acarboni) August 6, 2015

  
  
  Even Gears of War creator Cliffy B chimed in:
  
  

  Gratz to everyone who contributed to the Time cover! You're making VR happen, and also, this: http://t.co/7aeaaxLAtk amazing

  — Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) August 6, 2015

  
  
  
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  For many others, this was a prime chance to work those Photoshop muscles

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  Thanks @TIME for bringing VR to the mainstream. *hard wink* http://t.co/IPxx8hIsos pic.twitter.com/wT1WAQO9xR

  — Joseph Volpe (@jrvolpe) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  Time's VR cover is awful, but these photoshops are great http://t.co/WnGTS8SyQA pic.twitter.com/VuDkQ9pSjV

  — GamesRadar+ (@GamesRadar) August 6, 2015

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Hell, some sites even made it easy for people...

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  With sexy results...
  
  

  @dailydot @TIME Oh no, not again! pic.twitter.com/EdqnpbaKEx

  — Joseph M. Santi (@JoeAconite) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  Pretty sure I'm not the first one, but anyway @dailydot @TIME pic.twitter.com/qj2YJbqBL9

  — FELIS CANIS (@nikodimov) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  .@dailydot @TIME is this bad enough? pic.twitter.com/iWZZothO5F

  — Jeremy QA Gibbens (@afterglide) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  @dailydot @TIME YEAHHHH!!! pic.twitter.com/Q5CLorf1Ne

  — Joseph M. Santi (@JoeAconite) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  @dailydot @TIME pic.twitter.com/CMZzsqV66N

  — Ian! (@iboudreau) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  .@dailydot @lemonsand pic.twitter.com/Sduyn8ACom

  — Ivy (@Ivy_Choi_) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  @dailydot @TIME Hey y'all. pic.twitter.com/WYFlhYf4Xb

  — Monica Riese (@monicariese) August 6, 2015

  
  
  

  Have you seen @TIME's cover about virtual reality? We have. pic.twitter.com/Wsg
  
  And of course...
  
  

  The graphics are amazing. pic.twitter.com/tn1FZF1gO8

  — The Daily Dot (@dailydot) August 6, 2015
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  Some of the photoshops hit a little to close to the reality of VR

  
  Via Joal0503

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