Psychology - V-Rtifacts

Is VR the New Wasteland? (from 1993….)

And All That Hype, Head Mounted Displays, VR Publications, Where Are They Now?

VR today is like early TV: it suffers from the split personality of most start-up high-tech industries. At the one end is the top of the line research, carried out by institutions with no mandate to sell anything. At the other end, we have new...

You Put on Your Helmet One Morning and Find Yourself Transformed Into a Monstrous ******?

And All That Hype, Head Mounted Displays

Yes, I've heard rumors of bugs (lice) inside VR helmets (untrue!), but researchers in Spain are bloody Kafkaesque, putting virtual cockroaches all over the screens. They "got the bright idea to simulate hoards of cockroaches swarming over...

The Games That Would Be King

And All That Hype, Game Systems, VR Companies, Where Are They Now?

From 1991 to 1996 W Industries Virtuality systems defined the image of VR in the location based entertainment arena. Here in the US, Horizon Entertainment was their sole distributor. W Industries was remarkably innovative with their use of technology, but...

Imagine There is VR and You Don’t Even Realize it…

And All That Hype, In the Movies

I got some comments and messages from people complaining: "Ok there is a 3D wave, but i don't see VR." So... I thought I'd write expand on the topic a bit more. VR is definitely in the media and in the movies again. "But where?" - you...

The City and the Stars – VR a Billion Years From Now!

And All That Hype, Head Mounted Displays, VR Companies, Where Are They Now?

Back when VR really had some cred, the Diaspar Virtual Reality Network hopped on the bandwagon. Imagine, if you will, a dial-up service with a feature list, every item containing the phrase "will be", as in this feature will be available... but...

The REAL VR Industry

And All That Hype

Taken from Mike Bevan's excellent VR News, this compendium of upcoming trade shows and conferences relating to Virtual Reality gives a clue to where the real money is: Conferences! Mike lists 30 shows for the 11 month period, April '95 through...

Welcome to the “Where Are They Now?” Club

And All That Hype, Where Are They Now?

The somewhat short lived "Virtual Reality Systems" magazine ran an irregular column "Bitz and Bytz" subtitled "These news items are excerpts of what happened in the world of Virtual Reality during the past 12 months." Have a gander at the...

The return of Virtual Reality?

And All That Hype, On TV

Well we all saw how the VR hype slowly faded out in the late 90s - so how can i put up such a title? Some people might have noticed the recent boom of 3D related stuff. It somehow started last year, suddenly the buried technology was quickly excavated and...

10 Reasons Why Virtual Reality Did Not Become a Standard

And All That Hype, Head Mounted Displays

So well you probably know that it is not a standard that new computers get shipped with VR headsets, although you might have believed that during the mid-90s VR craze. In 1995 many analysts - serious people - predicted that in 10 years most computers would...

CYBERSEX – You’ll Never Buy An X-Rated Video Again!

And All That Hype, Cybersex, VR Companies, Where Are They Now?

Apparently Cybertech didn't anticipate Torrents and the Usenet. Anyway, "sigh-burr-sex" seemed like a slam dunk in '94. No one seemed concerned that a machine might rub you the wrong way. Money quotes from the Cybertech Systems marketing slick:...