Was on the way to Great Grandma's house and stopped at the Palisades Center in West Nyack, NY because of heavy traffic. Wandering around looking for a way for the kids to burn off some energy and what do we find but a small cluster of motion rides.The heavy hitter was the iReality. It takes some serious arrogance for a mall ride to claim The World's First FULLY Interactive Simulator. Even better, it's blatantly using the iPad to sell this as a ride of the future.
Of course, kids were all over it, and mine were clamoring for a ride. I swing around the side and what do I see but Windows Vista! A classic bait and switch.
Not only is this "ride" not using anything resembling Apple technology, but what's this, the software has crashed and is showing a DOS prompt. DOS, the future is yesterday.
Ducking inside to look closer at the screen, I see that some script is caught in an infinite loop waiting to receive a message from a network service that never answers. I was laughing to hard to take a more clear photo.
So glad I couldn't give these clowns $2.
