At a recent Netflix hackathon, one of the projects was a Netflix experience built for Oculus Rift, the virtual reality device and platform that Facebook bought this year.
You get to move your head to navigate around, which is pretty cool. And there's the fact that you'd be able to watch an embarrassingly bad show without anyone knowing, or a really good one without anyone interrupting you.
But most importantly, there are hand gestures, so you get to look like a robot alien.
Have fun in the future!
H/T Slate