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What’s Brewing With Jen- A Killer Virtual Reality Headset

See what was brewing with Jen Scordo today. Every day Jen shares 3 recent news stories. Today she had a story about a killer virtual reality headset, Blue Moon releasing…

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BURLINGAME, CALIFORNIA – MAY 04: An Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headset is displayed during a media preview of the new Meta Store on May 04, 2022 in Burlingame, California. Meta is set to open its first physical retail store on May 9.

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See what was brewing with Jen Scordo today. Every day Jen shares 3 recent news stories. Today she had a story about a killer virtual reality headset, Blue Moon releasing mini pies to go with your beer, and a man with an abnormally large thumb. Here are her stories from today.

Blue Moon Releases Line of Mini Pies to Pair With Beers

Blue Moon is known for the orange wheel garnish. But for a limited time, they have something else they want you to pair with your pint. They have paired with Baked by Melissa, to create 3 unique mini pies, that can replace the orange slice as the garnish on your Blue Moon. There is a Spiced Citrus Pumpkin Pie to pair with the Belgian White. A Coconut Citrus pie to pair with a glass of their Moon Haze. And a mango and pineapple custard-filled Tropic Sky Pie to pair with their Tropical Wheat beer.

Man With an Abnormally Large Thumb

Jacob Pina has a very large thumb. And now he has turned it into a bonus by using it to gain millions of Tik Tok fingers. he takes to Tik Tok to show off his weirdly long digit. But it has led to some questioning the authenticity of his thumb length. Many commenters are questioning if he is just using weird angles to make his thumb look larger than it is.

Die in the Game, and Die in Real Life

Palmer Luckey is the man that founded Occulus, one of the companies that made Virtual Reality headsets mainstream. And after selling his company to Facebook a while back, he is back in the headset game, but in a very weird way. Luckey claims to have made a special VR Headset, that will literally kill you if you die in the game. That is not a joke or an Onion headline. He actually did that. Why? Taht is something for his therapist to figure out. Obviously, it's nothing that could ever be marketable. But he did it.

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