The year is 2023. LeBron James Jr., the NBA’s newly-minted No. 1 draft pick, attacks the basket from the wing as LeBron James Sr. slides across the paint to take a charge. The younger James lifts off for a tomahawk dunk over his father, causing the crowd to rise as one and prompting TNT commentator Kevin Harlan to scream, “Who’s your daddy now!?”
Within seconds, a fan in Ohio, wearing a virtual reality headset connected to a smartphone, adjusts the camera angle of the replay so that he can view the highlight from James Jr.’s perspective. Halfway across the globe, a Chinese fan dons his VR headset and tilts the camera so that he can watch the same play from the poster victim’s angle, trying to determine whether James Jr.