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The cars of the future will be spherical Volkswagens with VR headsets
Volkswagen has plopped a strange, spherical, futuristic car simulator in the middle of shopping malls. It’s called the 4DX and it looks like a Beetle crossed with the escape pod from 2001. To actually give shoppers a taste of how driving this beast into the singularity might feel, it comes equipped with the zSight VR headset by Sensics, which, to quote the press release, creates “a journey of the senses, that reinvents the way you feel the to drive a car” (sic). I’m not sure what that means, but apparently it’s so awesome that it scrambles your ability to form…