Month: February 2026

Why you don’t see me interacting with Bob Stone

 

Decorative image of Dudley Dursley and his bully friends
Dudley Dursley, bully, and his pack of friends

Robert “Bob” Stone describes himself on his LinkedIn profile as:

XR Pioneer since 1987; Emeritus Professor; Human Factors Specialist.
“XR’s loveable curmudgeon” 🤣. All comments on LinkedIn are my own, but
they’re damned good ones 😉

He has a huge About section. Bob Stone’s name on LinkedIn is Prof Bob Stone.

I have 2 problems with Bob Stone, the first is much larger than the second.

  1. Bob Stone is a misogynist, a woman hater.
  2. Bob Stone is a coward. He prefers to attack out of direct view and runs with a pack.

Bob Stone is a Misogynist 

February 7, 2022 Bob Stone attacks Timoni West, Chief of VR/AR at Unity

Andy Fidel shared a Fast Company article by Mart Sullivan entitled “The metaverse is ‘particularly hard to predict,’ says Unity’s AR/VR chief, with a quote “According to Timoni West, humans are good at grasping some of the big themes of tech revolutions yet to come– and are terrible at getting all the details right.”

 

Capture of LinkedIn post by Andy Fidel about Timoni West and a Fast Company article about the metaverse. Bob Stone writes No shit Sherlock.

 

Capture from LinkedIn of piling on responses to Bob Stone's cruel and vulgar remark.


  

Capture of LinkedIn replies including myself and Andy Fidel.

Capture of LinkedIn reply where Bob Stone is vulgar and modifies his comment to No s**t Sherlock. The point is that he is still a bully even after being called out.


Prof Bob Stone wrote: No shit Sherlock (eyeroll emoji) 

**Note: my captures above both show Bob’s original writing: ‘No shit Sherlock’ and his later modification ‘No s**t Sherlock’. Notice that he felt he needed to not use a direct swear word, but that his original position of scorn was fine.

Wil McReynolds wrote: I actually lol’d at that.

Tom Hedges, Group Vice President Marketing and Brand Communications (not sure if that is the same Tom Hedges, but is in England) replied to Bob Stone: Prof Bob Stone don’t ever change.

Prof Bob Stone replied to Tom Hedges: I’ll try not to! There’s just so many overnight “I’ve been dealing with the Metaverse for decades” proclaimers, it drives me mad. 95% of it is c**p (trying to be polite)!

Tom Hedges replied again to Bob Stone: Prof Bob Stone I couldn’t agree more. So much BS out there!

I replied to Bob Stone: You could be more polite.

Andy Fidel wrote: [To me]. Agree, Timoni West has always been on-point regarding spatial computing. (stars emoji) Wish there was an audio version of the conversation.

Andy Fidel replied to Bob Stone: There are polite ways to express one’s opinion. Let’s be mindful of our words and most certainly welcome new imagineers to explore teh wonders of immersive reality.

That being said, Timoni West is no rookie. A great mind and spokesperson in our field (stars emoji)

Prof Bob Stone replied to Andy Fidel: Andy Fidel (cry emoji)

Steven Jupp, Original Architect of the EyA- The Platform Readying the World for a Radical Change (also in England, pretty sure this is the correct LinkedIn account) replied to Bob Stone: (laugh cry emoji) (laugh cry emoji)

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