It seems odd to us now, but before the invention of the television, families would gather around radios as their preferred method of entertainment. Before the radio, folks would pack movie houses to watch silent films from the likes of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. This, again, seems very odd to those of us living in the age of surround sound-enabled, 4k-resolution spewing, massive televisions inside living rooms.
Changes in technology always bring about changes in entertainment. A newly released immersive experience called VR Noir demonstrates how virtual reality could make sitting on a couch passively looking at a television seem as strange to our future selves as watching a movie with no sound.
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