Grandma freaks out after putting on virtual reality goggles

'That's as far as I go.'
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Tyler Schmall
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Technology and the elderly have had their fair share of differences in the past 25 or so years, with the industry growing so exponentially that even some millennials have trouble keeping up with the latest tech.

So imagine being a person who grew up without a house phone and now you have a miracle pocket machine that makes phone calls and plays Tetris simultaneously. It makes sense that the insanely new (and imperfect) virtual reality trend might cause a major freak out among our elders.

Based on her purely horrified reaction, we think that maybe this was a virtual reality called "The Year 2017."

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Tyler Schmall is a humor writer based in NYC and a friend of yours. You can follow him on Twitter @tylerschmall where he has been known to post "tweets."

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