Virtuality's revenge

As if the old Virtuality video game hardware wasn't clunky enough .. in today's paper we see this monstrosity:

And they're calling it "one giant step for home entertainment?" It's giant all right. That poor girl. I don't see any kind of support apparatus in the picture, it looks like she's actually holding that thing up with her neck and shoulders.
Makes the Virtuality game gear look positively svelte:

The cool thing about the Virtuality game was that it was social .. you entered a shared cyberspace and competed. It was loads of fun for me back in high school when they had that fantastic arcade of these things in Union Station, downtown St. Louis. (I still have one of my "boarding passes" from way back then.) That ridiculous "new" contraption on that kid's head doesn't look big enough for more than one head in there. And to make the idea even more ridiculous .. imagine a family seated in their living room, each sporting one of these bulbous things on their shoulders?