Bizarre Virtual 'Restaurant' Air Yakiniku a Huge Success
Allow us to explain. The virtual Korean BBQ restaurant, originally designed for the Japanese market, virtually hands its customers an apron, which they are asked to print out onto a sheet of paper and wear in order to prevent them from getting any virtual food on their clothing. Customers then choose their meat (sorry, vegetarians), which gets BBQ'd onscreen by a digital hand on a digital grill.
The idea is that visitors will have a bowl of rice and miso soup in front in order of them in order to heighten the experience's realism, though we're not sure what one does with all of the saliva and expectation that's built up by the time the bell dings to inform them that their meat is done (and, of course, nonexistent).
There are other virtual restaurants out there, and virtual bars are starting to catch on as well. There, we presume, you can get virtually drunk, virtually hit on members of the opposite sex, and, if you're lucky, maybe even virtually take one of them home with you. [From: Air Yakiniku, via NY Times]
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Jsams4131 said 8:49AM on 7-22-2009
????
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Marshall Williams said 9:01AM on 7-22-2009
??? WTF ???
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Angela said 10:37AM on 7-22-2009
Well, where do you expect someone with a virtual life to take a virtual date before they have virtual sex? A virtual restaurant! Ahh haa ha!
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Kyle said 11:48AM on 9-07-2009
Srsly wth? D: What's the point of it? Is it supposed to make you more hungry by staring at a screen that's cooking BBQ for you to "Virtually" eat? I don't get it... Japanese are weird.
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itsfurysfury said 2:17AM on 9-11-2009
Wow, that is really weird, eating virtual food... So useless
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