https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qve9gq/uber-wants-to-fill-the-boredom-of-self-driving-cars-with-vr > Uber is forcibly shaping the future of transportation, and a couple of its new patent applications show the company is already preparing for a future where we're so bored by our commutes, we need complicated virtual reality systems to entertain us while we lounge in our self-driving cars. > Two nearly identical applications, both titled “Virtual Reality Experience For a Vehicle,” were filed by the company on August, 5 2016, and published by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) last month.