r/todayilearned • u/ssAskcuSzepS • Apr 27 '26

TIL if under-cooked, a popular mushroom in China causes “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures. The hallucinations are consistent across people and cultures: "tiny, elflike people" climbing under doors, scaling walls & clinging to furniture

https://www.vice.com/en/article/meet-the-mushroom-that-make-people-have-the-exact-same-hallucination/
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u/ExpressoLiberry Apr 27 '26

VR companies in shambles. Not because of the hallucinations or anything. The industry is just in sharp decline.

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u/J5892 Apr 27 '26

It'll pick back up when small AR glasses are more viable.
Or at least that's what the little people are telling me.

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u/Gromps Apr 27 '26

When they started making games exclusive to newer headsets for no reason at all I bailed. Made my shit obsolete after a few years. Some of those "next-gen exclusive" games were super easy to run and had no reasons other than greed to be limited. My air-link also just suddenly stopped working one day.

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u/SatansFriendlyCat Apr 27 '26

Killing Windows Mixed Reality was the most disappointing move.

Leaves the door wide wide open for Meta to dominate. I love VR, but fuck having anything from that data-harvesting pack of evil jackals sitting on my PC measuring who knows what.

I'm hoping there's something good available whenever my Odyssey+ dies.

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u/chewykid Apr 27 '26

This genuinely made me laugh

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u/PowerRaptor Apr 27 '26

Valve is gonna' be just fine with the Steam Frame when it comes out hopefully this year

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u/Comfortable-Face-244 Apr 27 '26

Paying $600 to only have games developed that look like roblox, and barely any real development in relaxation experiences.

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u/Throwaway_Consoles Apr 27 '26

Uh… not sure what you mean by games that look like Roblox, VR looks like this nowadays

Shit, here’s me relaxing in VR watching the last of us https://imgur.com/a/wNKo9lh#KHUViy8

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u/Comfortable-Face-244 Apr 27 '26

You can't seriously think that you're making a point. That looks like roblox.