{"id":88,"date":"2026-02-19T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cogitateandpercolate.com\/?p=88"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T13:42:13","slug":"why-you-dont-see-me-interacting-with-bob-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cogitateandpercolate.com\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"Why you don’t see me interacting with Bob Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Robert “Bob” Stone describes himself on his LinkedIn profile<\/a> as:<\/p>\n

XR Pioneer since 1987; Emeritus Professor; Human Factors Specialist.
\n“XR’s loveable curmudgeon” \ud83e\udd23. All comments on LinkedIn are my own, but
\n they’re damned good ones \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n

He has a huge About section. Bob Stone’s name on LinkedIn is Prof Bob Stone.<\/p>\n

I have 2 problems with Bob Stone, the first is much larger than the second.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Bob Stone is a misogynist, a woman hater.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Bob Stone is a coward. He prefers to attack out of direct view and runs with a pack.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Bob Stone is a Misogynist <\/span><\/h2>\n

    February 7, 2022 Bob Stone attacks Timoni West, Chief of VR\/AR at Unity<\/p>\n

    Andy Fidel shared a Fast Company article by Mart Sullivan entitled “The metaverse is ‘particularly hard to predict,’ says Unity’s AR\/VR chief,<\/a> 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.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Prof Bob Stone wrote: No shit Sherlock (eyeroll emoji) <\/span><\/p>\n

    **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.<\/p>\n

    Wil McReynolds<\/a> wrote: I actually lol’d at that.<\/p>\n

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

    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)!<\/p>\n

    Tom Hedges replied again to Bob Stone: Prof Bob Stone I couldn’t agree more. So much BS out there!<\/p>\n

    I replied to Bob Stone: You could be more polite.<\/p>\n

    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.<\/p>\n

    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.<\/p>\n

    That being said, Timoni West is no rookie. A great mind and spokesperson in our field (stars emoji)<\/p>\n

    Prof Bob Stone replied to Andy Fidel: Andy Fidel (cry emoji)<\/p>\n

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

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    This rudeness and vulgarity really did shock me the first time I saw it.<\/p>\n

    Now I would not accuse Bob based on only one<\/i> instance. He’s gone on to ride around LinkedIn with a posse of men particularly engaging women in the XR industry and maligning them.  If you examine Bob’s frequent posts, you’ll see that the replies to his posts are, by a very wide margin, by accounts that one would identify visually as men. So I encourage you to fact check this: by far, men engage with Bob, not women. When Bob engages with women, it is majorly negative.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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    Source: NIH News in Health<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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    This is another example (I don’t have time to track this crap around the Internet). Here he attacks Andrea S. Professional VR\/XR Artist, by calling the question she poses as “nonsense”.  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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    And I stood up to Bob Stone as a bully by speaking up: “Bob has a history of being rude and dismissive of the comments of XR women. I pay him no mind.”
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    Simple advice. Stop bullying by speaking up. And it works.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    Bob Stone is a Coward <\/span><\/h2>\n

    But Bob Stone is also a coward. If you look at his LinkedIn posts, you can easily see a trend. He re-post the posts of others to his network with his added comments, and rarely if never tags back the original post author. In this way, Bob is “roasting” others<\/a>, a bully trait and he does it from a distance. He won’t confront someone head on.<\/p>\n

    As an aside, Bob also carries a big chip on his shoulder, it appears to me, thinking of himself as an XR industry mover and shaker but now a has-been<\/i>. He is almost always referring to time<\/b>, old time, his time, or time past (history) in his posts. It’s so common that I’m sure he’s got a problem with his own aging and feeling left out of the current XR industry. Therefore, he keeps banging the drum that: he thought of it first, he discovered it first, he did it first, and\/or everyone else is slow to the game. <\/span><\/p>\n

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    Me thinks you protest too much, Bob<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    I decided to look and collect ideas for this blog post after seeing Bob post about the dismal AI art in this post<\/a> (which happened to be posted by a person of color). <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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    I was stunned that he would rant about AI art when his own profile image is, to me, AI art. <\/u> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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    Robert “Bob”Stone, aka Prof Bob Stone, LinkedIn profile image as of February 2026<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    I also noticed that all of the replies appear to be made by men<\/u>. Sadly, two of these men I considered colleagues–you can tell by the “1st” link number by their accounts in these captures. I’ll be ex-linking with them after I click Publish on this post. (done)<\/p>\n

    Does Bob even notice that professional XR women are avoiding interacting with him?<\/span><\/p>\n

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    I decided to look at the recent week’s worth of LinkedIn posts by Bob to see if what I suspected (Bob rants about time) was true.<\/p>\n

    I found more than I was expecting to discover. I would like to re-iterate. I’m about to show you one week (only) of Bob Stone’s LinkedIn posts and just the top few lines b\/c I’m not bothering to loose brain cells by actually reading his rants. BTW, Bob is into double exclamation points.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Hang on tight. We’re going reverse in time.<\/span><\/p>\n

    1. <\/span>Bob attacked Craig Frehlich’s recent LinkedIn post<\/a>. Coincidentally the zebra head also<\/i>
    \n set me off but I am used to being disgusted by much of Craig’s posts. I’m going to crop the post here because I found it very
    \ndisturbing. Apparently AI really cannot understand zebras.      <\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

    2. Bob says “we did this in the early 1990!!” and other snide comments.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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    3. Just being angry<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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    4. A decade ago!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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    5. Bob’s manopause is showing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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     6. One line but Bob is angry. Again.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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    7.  Pride from one of his first <\/i>students<\/span><\/p>\n

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    8.  40 years ago<\/span><\/p>\n

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    9. “…passion of mine ever since…”<\/span><\/p>\n

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    Sometimes it is tempting to reply asking how long he’s been in the industry, just to see him get riled up.<\/p>\n

    But nah.<\/p>\n

    Not. Worth. The. Energy.<\/p>\n

    He’s a curmudgeon, aye? Loveable? Attacks women in 2022 and continuing with minorities in 2026? Allegedly.<\/p>\n

    Me thinks, not so loveable.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Proverbs 22:10  Drive out the mocker, and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.<\/span><\/p>\n

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     <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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    Dudley Dursley, bully, and his pack of friends<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    <\/p>\n

    Robert “Bob” Stone describes himself on his LinkedIn profile<\/a> as:<\/p>\n

    XR Pioneer since 1987; Emeritus Professor; Human Factors Specialist.
    \n“XR’s loveable curmudgeon” \ud83e\udd23. All comments on LinkedIn are my own, but
    \n they’re damned good ones \ud83d\ude09<\/span><\/p>\n

    He has a huge About section. Bob Stone’s name on LinkedIn is Prof Bob Stone.<\/p>\n

    I have 2 problems with Bob Stone, the first is much larger than the second.<\/span><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Bob Stone is a misogynist, a woman hater.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Bob Stone is a coward. He prefers to attack out of direct view and runs with a pack.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Bob Stone is a Misogynist <\/span><\/h2>\n

      February 7, 2022 Bob Stone attacks Timoni West, Chief of VR\/AR at Unity<\/p>\n

      Andy Fidel shared a Fast Company article by Mart Sullivan entitled “The metaverse is ‘particularly hard to predict,’ says Unity’s AR\/VR chief,<\/a> 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.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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      Prof Bob Stone wrote: No shit Sherlock (eyeroll emoji) <\/span><\/p>\n

      **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.<\/p>\n

      Wil McReynolds<\/a> wrote: I actually lol’d at that.<\/p>\n

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

      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)!<\/p>\n

      Tom Hedges replied again to Bob Stone: Prof Bob Stone I couldn’t agree more. So much BS out there!<\/p>\n

      I replied to Bob Stone: You could be more polite.<\/p>\n

      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.<\/p>\n

      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.<\/p>\n

      That being said, Timoni West is no rookie. A great mind and spokesperson in our field (stars emoji)<\/p>\n

      Prof Bob Stone replied to Andy Fidel: Andy Fidel (cry emoji)<\/p>\n

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

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