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Build Your Own 3D Shutter Glasses Controller for Field Interlaced Stereoscopic

Build Your Own 3D Shutter Glasses Controller for Field Interlaced Stereoscopic

How-To; Teardowns; Tutorials

There are tons of stereoscopic DVDs and VHS tapes on the market encoded as field interlaced stereo. Also, one of the easiest ways to make 3D video is with a camcorder (NTSC or PAL) and a NuView 3D adaptor (often selling on Ebay for less than $100.) For those of you...
Build Your Own Fluid-based Prismatic Stereoscopic Goggles

Build Your Own Fluid-based Prismatic Stereoscopic Goggles

Around the World, Head Mounted Displays, How-To; Teardowns; Tutorials

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 contortionist. For...
Build a 2 DOF Wireless Head Tracker – Cheap!

Build a 2 DOF Wireless Head Tracker – Cheap!

How-To; Teardowns; Tutorials, Position Trackers

Not long ago I needed a whole bunch of head trackers for just one week. Not wanting to invest tens of thousands of dollars in high-end tracking systems, I came up with an easy DIY head tracking system constructed from the guts of a Gyration Air Mouse. The Air Mouse...
VRASP, Pix-Elation, and Phlogiston

VRASP, Pix-Elation, and Phlogiston

How-To; Teardowns; Tutorials, VR Publications

1992 brought a non-virtual swarm of young and eager students to every VR event (and there were WAY too many) under the sun. Perhaps there were massive show discounts for attendees who were too young to drink legally, but members of the Virtual Reality Alliance of...
Ascension Technology SpacePad 6DOF Tracker Teardown

Ascension Technology SpacePad 6DOF Tracker Teardown

How-To; Teardowns; Tutorials, Position Trackers

Six degree of freedom (x, y, z, azimuth, elevation, and roll) are hard and expensive to come by these days. Stuff like the Wii remote, iPhone, and Droid only track rotations, not fine position (yes the GPS will find you within +- 10 meters, but I’m talking about...
Tearing Out the Guts of a Virtual Research VR-4 Helmet

Tearing Out the Guts of a Virtual Research VR-4 Helmet

Head Mounted Displays, How-To; Teardowns; Tutorials, VR Companies

Last week I shredded a Liquid Image MRG2.2. This week we go for the classic Virtual Research VR-4 stereoscopic head mounted display. There’s a lot to love about the VR-4: wide field of view optics, adjustable interpupilary distance, coated aspheric lenses,...
Liquid Image MRG2.2 Disassembly and Potential Upgrades

Liquid Image MRG2.2 Disassembly and Potential Upgrades

Head Mounted Displays, How-To; Teardowns; Tutorials, VR Companies, Where Are They Now?

I’ve gotten a ton of emails hurled at me about the Liquid Image MRG2.2 VR helmet. The gist of most of them is: “Hey, I love the wide field of view and how rugged the MRG2.2 is, but I wish I could upgrade the LCD resolution, and, is there a way to make this...
Victormaxx Stuntmaster vs. PETA and a Teardown!

Victormaxx Stuntmaster vs. PETA and a Teardown!

Head Mounted Displays, How-To; Teardowns; Tutorials, VR Companies, Where Are They Now?

This totally excellent demo of the Victormaxx Stuntmaster helmet speaks for itself. Lyme disease aside, the Stuntmaster’s wretched optical qualities seem overly cruel to this beast.     And a nice teardown…...
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Who thought we’d be doing archeology on Virtual Reality? It’s been almost 25 years (maybe more…) since VR hit the media and sparked the imagination of millions. So much promised, but often not delivered. To call it a “fad” or a “craze” is far too simple. For those of us who were there, VR was a giant wave that swept over us in the late 80’s and early 90’s, and left quite a bit of wreckage behind as the tide receded.

For a while there VR’s promise and growth went hand in hand with the explosion of interest and usage of the internet. The dot.com bubble and subsequent burst notwithstanding, the internet became ubiquitous, but immersive VR did not. Strangely, memories of the VR bubble on the web are fragmentary with great swaths of empty spaces.  more...

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