I manage to get the article downloaded and hurry down into the crowded subway, unconsciously weaving through the correct turnstiles and tunnels to get to my train. Queueing up on the platform, I bring up the Ars Technica piece and frown.  The file must have gotten corrupted. Some of the text is garbled - not enough to make the article impossible to read, but annoying nonetheless.<br/><br/>It's heartening to see that there's almost as much visual real estate given to VRS as there is to Rift Oculon, especially considering the title of the piece.  Less heartening is the fact that there's little in the way of new reporting.  There's nothing in the article I don't already know, and I involuntarily smirk at the conjecture about a possible merger between the two companies.<em>Not likely</em>.  Of course, stranger things have happened - but the divide between our technology and... whatever it is RO has allegedly come up with is just too great.  It's not unlike the great VHS/Betamax rivalry of yore - in the end, there can be only one.<br/><br/>Hopefully, that one will be VRS.<br/><br/>I guess I should be glad there's not anything earth-shattering being reported.  That means this really could all just be a publicity stunt, and while it may help RO with some market visibility in the short term, in the long run all the hype will amount to nothing more than vaporware.<br/><br/>I hate walking into a situation not knowing what to expect.  I'm antsy as the subway stutters cross-town, finally disgorging me along with what feels like the entire rest of the subway car on the grungy underground platform. In typical city fashion, I duck my head and fight through the surging crowd up the various staircases and through turnstiles until I'm back up at street level.  The walk to the office isn't long, and so I slip into mass of humanity moving along Manhattan's extra-wide sidewalks and head over to my building.<br/><br/>Despite my urgency to get to the office, I can't explain why, as I pass the entrance to the N-Q-R, I have the wildest inclination to head down a grab the train to 34th street. Silly.  This was no time for sight-seeing at the Empire State Building. Why would I even think that?<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Choice:<br/><br/>A.  Ponder this message while heading to work, taking the subway over and then hurrying through the brisk walk to your 55th Street building.