Around The World
Retrospective photo review of Forte VFX1 Virtual Reality system
Forte VFX1 was the most advanced, complex and expensive consumer VR system that appeared on the market during VR craze in mid-nineties. Introduced in 1995, VFX1 was in the shops all around the world in 1996. [scrollGallery=id:1;] Hardware...
Shanghai Tech
Sorry... VRtifacts has been pretty slow for a while now. An unintended consequence of enjoying some travel time. Guess I'll never be a global blogger. I did manage to uncover some tech artifacts in Shanghai. Finally back at my desk. VRtifacts...
Build Your Own Fluid-based Prismatic Stereoscopic Goggles
For 150 years people have been free-viewing stereoscopic photos (and more recently videos) in a side by side cross-eyed format, where the left view is positioned to the right of the right view. You’re force to cross your eyes like an optical...
Back In The USSR
USA and other western world faced consumer-focused Virtual Reality boom in late 80s and early 90s, accurately when USSR is fall apart. VR came to big industrial cities of post USSR later in 1995 – 1998, when VR hype slowly begin to fall down in...