You see a lot of strange stuff walking the show floor of CES.
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But Samsung's demo of its virtual reality headset, Gear VR, stuck out to me the most:
And now we've made it. Virtual reality is here for the masses. All you need is a smartphone and special headset and you're good to go.
Watching people try the Samsung demo shows the power of the platform. These people didn't care that thousands of people were walking by gawking at them as they sat with their mouths agape, fully immersed in whatever they were looking at. They were transported to a completely different world.
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So as goofy as it looks to an outsider, VR is an incredibly powerful medium.