Win Reality strikes out with baseball VR commercial

You might have seen this virtual reality company’s commercial during the World Series recently. It’s Win Reality promoting their realistic baseball simulation. Check it out…

Maybe the product is good. Certainly the idea is a good one. Instead of going out to a batting cage, this product makes it possible to get “practice” from the comfort of your own home. But that’s the problem, too. Does anyone see the example of a kid in a living room and NOT immediately think of how it ends? Shattered TVs, walls, furniture, lamps, vases, planters, picture frames, and ceiling lights. I mean, look at all the potential breakage in the image below…

It reminds me of the Wii controller. Something so lightweight still causes damage. Can you image a full-size baseball bat? No mother in their right mind is going to buy, much less, allow this toy in a living room. A dad *might*… if he’s comfortable sleeping on the couch in that living room.

On the company’s YouTube page, there’s a much better video/commercial showing off the VR game system.

Good product idea, dumb commercial choice for a World Series ad placement. What they don’t mention in the ad is that you need Meta Quest (the VR headset) to use this product. Meta Quest is going to set you back around $400. As far as this baseball/softball product, based on the number of YouTube views across all their videos, it’s not quite catching on. Early adopters might help but unless there’s a wave of new users (who also own a Meta Quest VR headset), this simulator game might already be losing in its first at bat.

I like the idea of real-world practice with Win Reality, simply because of its convenience. I just wish they’d picked a different ad, one without a kid swinging a heavy bat in a nice living room full of so many breakable things.

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-Out of the Wilderness

Democrats in the media are freakin’ NUTS!

Lizzo brings Stacey Abrams on stage and that’s OK but when Luke Bryan has Ron DeSantis on stage, the liberal left lose their ever-loving minds. Dear Lord, three things I pray… to love you more dearly, to follow you more nearly, and for Democrats to stop being idiots.

The same left wing nut jobs who love Abrams for crashing a Lizzo concert also say John Fetterman knocked it out of the park in his recent debate with Dr. Oz. I’m conservative so I’m trying to understand. What is it that so captivates liberal people (at least the ones in the media and on Twitter) that they think a slimy Democrat politician (looking at you Pelosi, Biden, Harris, Abrams……..) is worth electing! I’ll admit, the word “politician” sours my thoughts whether it’s a Washington Democrat or a Washington Republican, but SURELY a mature, sane, level-headed person can see and understand that things, in general, have worsened with Democrats having a majority AND the presidency. It just blows my mind when I hear TV news analysts saying Fetterman had an amazing performance in his only debate with Dr. Oz. Any normal person who watched it must’ve seen the train wreck that it was for the Fetterman campaign. And Stacey Abrams doesn’t even like living Georgia! Why would any Georgian vote for her? Then there’s the icky Raphael Warnock. He’ll get votes, which baffles my mind.

It’s not even just that I’m hoping for a landslide conservative win, I’m hoping people in America are as sick of selfish, greedy, gross, evil, arrogant, prideful, power-hungry politicians no matter what side of the aisle they’re on. What the TV shows me is that blind, misguided people are running the media and when there’s a threat of control being lost, or people waking up, the liberal people short circuit.

There’s a big election this November and as every politician will tell us, it’s the biggest one in our lifetime. Seems like they say that every election. Weird, huh? I guess around this same time next week nerves and tension will be high all across the country. Look out for yourselves and your businesses if the left feels like the democracy has been compromised because we know what happens next (see “Summer riots of 2020”).

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-Out of the Wilderness

Nationwide Commercial featuring HER (and him)

Nationwide has a couple of new commercials out featuring the wonderful voice of Gabriella Wilson, better known as H.E.R. Take a look and I think you’ll love her voice, too.

There’s also a “behind the scenes” video from one of her performances.

H.E.R. joins another musician lending their talents to Nationwide. Country singer Brad Paisley has a couple of ads under his belt, too. Here’s one of them.

Star power aside, having a memorable song, or jingle, is important from an advertising perspective so Nationwide checks off all the boxes with him (Brad Paisley) and her (H.E.R.). How do you feel about the commercials? Do you catch yourself singing the tagline at random parts of the day? Oh, ok, it’s just me!?

Thanks for dropping in…

-Out of the Wilderness

Hot Takes of the Week

Here are the top 10 hot takes to start this week off with a bang. If you have a few to add of your own, comment below and let’s fight about it!

Women’s high-wasted jeans are not cool at all.

The royal family is irrelevant in the United States.

People over the age of 90 shouldn’t be able to have a driver’s license.

Dinosaurs never existed.

Baseball isn’t America’s pastime.

It’s still not cool to live in a van down by the river.

Pete Davidson has never been funny.

Josh Allen has become everything people wished Baker Mayfield was going to be.

Saturday Night Live hasn’t been funny in over a decade.

When a person of color is racist, it’s not reverse racism, it’s just racism.

Thanks for stopping by… hope you didn’t get burned!

-Out of the Wilderness

Danny DeVito comes up short in new Jersey Mike’s commercials

Danny DeVito is the star power in a series of Jersey Mike’s commercials. You’ve probably seen a few of them but in case you haven’t, here’s my least favorite.

Why is he stealing a sub from another customer? A rich, well-known actor can afford a sub, right? It’s just weird. Maybe I just don’t get his humor, but I haven’t laughed at any of the DeVito commercials yet. There are a couple more of the ads below, all aiming at a laugh from the viewer. This isn’t the first time Jersey Mike’s has produced a commercial that misses the mark for me. Last year they had one titled, “Resume,” in which a turkey was proud to be sliced up for a sandwich. I wrote more about it in my review here, but in a nutshell it would be a cold day in Hades before a wild animal would be happy to die and get eaten.

Below are more commercials starring DeVito. If you’re interested in why Jersey Mike’s brought on DeVito as their celebrity endorsement, check out this article where it’s all explained.

Am I missing something? Are these ads funny and I just need to lighten up? Chime in below! Thanks for dropping in…

-Out of the Wilderness