A product launch for a new Virtual Device was underway in the large conference room at Osborn Tower.
Both Osborn's collaboration with the Fantastic Four and the arrival of a new Virtual Device were major attention-grabbers. Even though the Osborn Group had booked its largest conference room, the place was still packed.
At the very center of the conference room stood the virtual reality equipment developed and built by Reed Richards.
Unlike the virtual headset Kraft had made, Reed's Virtual Device took the form of a life-support pod.
It wasn't that Reed Richards couldn't make a headset-style Virtual Device, nor was he trying to differentiate his product from the Dream Company's. He simply couldn't bring the price of a headset-style Virtual Device down to match the Dream Company's version.
Kraft had a whole pile of unscientific methods for cutting costs, and his main goal was to find playmates for Arale, so he could sell his virtual headsets cheaply without worrying about the cost.
Reed Richards couldn't do that. Even if he wanted to sell them cheaply, Norman Osborn, a veteran capitalist, would never agree.
So Reed came up with a brilliant idea: "package" the headset inside a gaming pod, then add extra features such as massages, sunbathing, and nutritional supplements. In short, he would make the virtual gaming pod look worth its price.
Following a prepared PowerPoint presentation, the spokesperson appointed by the Osborn Group introduced the virtual gaming pod's various features to the reporters below.
As a genius, Reed Richards certainly wasn't limited to making a slavish knockoff. Compared with Kraft's Virtual Game headset, his gaming pod had its own unique feature in addition to all those extras.
Exercise performed in the game could produce real results in the physical world, and the gaming pod's safety cutoff would automatically