Yesterday we did spring, winter and summer all in one day. Left Albuquerque where the fruit trees were doing their showy pink and white blossoms thing while the cottonwoods were all leafing out in the pale first green of spring. Landed in Kansas City where it was 27 and snowing. De-iced the plane and we took off for Fort Lauderdale, where it is 75, sunny and warm.
It was a long day, but we gathered our luggage, called an Uber and made it to the hotel without incident. About midnight local time we were tucked in bed and ready for a long sleep.
Today we did not have much pre-planned, so we called another Uber and went to the Museum of Science and Discovery downtown. There we experienced a hurricane, road an airboat through the Everglades, rode on a Mars Rover and fought the bad guys in a 7D flight, all in about 30 minutes through the magic of virtual reality rides. Then we went outside and played in their new physics exhibit. Used pulleys to lift ourselves seceral feet in the air, turned a flywheel to operate a fan and mister cooling system, used pressure to lauch balls through hoops ala quidditch, made sound waves into music qnd played dueling water rockets. There were a few kids out there, but the adults were having all the fun.
They have a 4K Laser 3D IMAX here at the museum, the only one in Florida. It has an 80 foot screen, 114 speakers and so we decided it would be the Ideal Venue in which to watch Ready Player One.

Oh. My. Was it ever. If you are going to see this movie, you really should see it on a giant 3D screen. Makes all the Virtual Reality scenes seem like, well, watching through VR glasses. Kind of blurs the lines between the reality and the virtual. The movie premise was a typical young adult book plot (boy meets girl, together with their friends they take on the big bad corporate villains and after multiple battles, difficult obstacles and tests of honor and humanity, the kids finally win in the end). I thought it was very enjoyable, and there were loads of early tech references that only senior-agers will fully appreciate. The original Batmobile, Back To The Future Deloreans, Atari game cartridges. And with the growing eSports business, the movie virtual world is growing closer to the Real World. Check out our nephew Matt’s company, Ghost Gaming on Twitch. (Twitch is a whole separate portal of the interet used by people who want to watch streaming broadcasts, such as esports games)
https://cybersport.com/post/ghost-win-pgl-pubg-invitational
https://www.lifewire.com/what-is-twitch-4143337
This sounds like an incredible experience! Wow!
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