When Virtual Reality Was Always Virtual
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...
Build a 2 DOF Wireless Head Tracker – Cheap!
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...
Virtuality Sphere (HQ)
Sphere is a game that was made for the Virtuality 2000 Series sitdowns (SD). You control a tank and have to capture a sphere in the battlefield while avoiding to be shot by other tanks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6r2kdZydzE
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...
Imagine There is VR and You Don’t Even Realize it…
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!
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
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
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?
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...
VRASP, Pix-Elation, and Phlogiston
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...
10 Reasons Why Virtual Reality Did Not Become a Standard
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...
Virtual Boy – Another Perspective…
I don't really agree with the Virtual Boy being VR's "nail in the coffin". I think it was just one of many crappy products. Maybe it could have saved the VR hype for a while if it was a big success, but as it is it's just one of the many VR obscurities...