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potato_hamster on 20 August 2018
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Conina said:
potato_hamster said:

As for smartphones:

"In March 1996, Hewlett-Packard released the OmniGo 700LX, a modified HP 200LX palmtop PC with a Nokia 2110 mobile phone piggybacked onto it and ROM-based software to support it. It had a 640×200 resolution CGA compatible four-shade gray-scale LCD screen and could be used to place and receive calls, and to create and receive text messages, emails and faxes. It was also 100% DOS 5.0 compatible, allowing it to run thousands of existing software titles, including early versions of Windows."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone

Sounds to me like taking a PDA and mashing a Nokia phone on the back of it does actually make a smartphone. Sure the Omnigo doesn't have much in common with the first iPhone, but they're both still considered smartphones. Imagine that.

But that's exactly the point: A simple PDA is no smartphone. A simple mobile phone is no smartphone. A simple digital camera is no smartphone. A simple music player is no smartphone. A simple video player is no smartphone. A simple navigation device is no smartphone.

Combining all these features in one device makes it to a smartphone. If most of the key features are missing, it is only one piece of the puzzle.

And the same goes for the Virtual Boy.

Okay. So that HP Omni whatever from 1996.
Simple PDA? Check.
Simple mobile phone? Check.
Simple digital camera? Nope.
Simple music player? Nope.
Simple video player? Nope.
Simple navigation device? Nope.

Yet, it's still a smartphone. So by your own analogy, you should have no problem considering the Virtual Boy to be a VR headset.