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How did the local kids have fun? Epic hide and seek? Roof top tag?

Yellow Magic Orchestra, is one of the most influential bands of late seventies/ early eighties Japan, they popularized the genre of Techno-pop, and to this day, many Japanese artists find their inspiration from their futuristic beats and sounds.

I just love em, back when people usually sung acoustically, and when the only electronic sounds electronic sounds were commonly known to come from people like Wendy Carlos and Isao Tomita who mostly did electronic arrangements of classical pieces, they blew the scene away with their uptempo, "pop" sounds.

They were among the first people to popularize vocoding tech, and the electronic music instrument company Roland has a lot of their initial boom in popularity to thank for YMO's pioneering use of Roland's prototype gear.

Even today, many Japanese artists will make many cover arrangements of YMO's songs, like "Kimi ni Munekyun", as it was arranged for use in the anime Maria Holic.

A three man band, (originally kind of four, as technology advanced he gradually became unnecessary, as a "patcher" like him was not needed with modern synths) one of the more famous of this trio is Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Ryuichi Sakamoto is very famous for appearing in a feature length film with David Bowie in Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence, which the main theme he also composed is still a very widely known song in Japan.

But for western audiences Ryuichi Sakomoto's name is probably most famous for winning the Academy Award for his compositions in The Last Emperor in 1987

A legendary trio of musicians, Yellow Magic Orchestra is to be forever remembered. Influential and legendary, none of my words do any justice but to serve as an understatement in describing them.

EDIT: Sorry, my text was ambiguous, I shouldn't have said "only". My mistake.

Woah there woah there, why the hostility? Calm down. My mistake!

Also going to chime in here as I worked with the oculus rift and I've been in VR conventions talking exactly about this kind of stuff.

You might think to yourself, why do you need an oculus to do what OP talked about? Surely you can show a picture of a snake without VR, what's the point?

Let's say you are afraid of heights. With the Oculus, you can simulate heights, and you can change them down to the millimeter. No need to have you 1) endanger yourself by being on top of something actually and 2) have someone make a rig that is height variable. Today we can work on having you a foot off the ground, tomorrow, we can do a foot and and an inch.

Another way one can use VR is for people with societal anxiety. (Just going to mention this because I think this is an awesome application.) People with severe societal anxiety can't stand facing people and stalking to them. So in a virtual environment people created these blobs that move like people. Spend a couple weeks and these patients could talk to blobs. Then the blobs get this blank expression glued on their face. Few months later, the face moves.

A year later these people were talking to virtual people (think Woody from the first Toy Story). Two years later? The patients could talk with people out on the street!

This sort of therapy has been in development and in use for actually a few decades. Only recently though has the cost of VR come down to the point that an Everyman can get a chance to get therapy this way.

Kraftwerk did have a major influence on YMO's sound as well!