When Virtual Reality Was Always Virtual
Pac-Man VR
https://youtu.be/7OeoB07d5WE This is the last and rarest Pac-Man arcade game. It's a 3D, first-person game, it's played with a Visette virtual reality visor and a gyroscopic joystick. It was made in 1996 by Virtuality Entertainment, its copyright...
Physics, Metaphysics & the Consciousness Connection 16 of 18
https://youtu.be/ILpD9Xl8xKY Physicist and consciousness researcher, Thomas Campbell, Discusses the nature of reality in terms of consciousness – this video logically and scientifically explains the normal and the paranormal, mind and matter,...
Build Your Own 3D Shutter Glasses Controller for Field Interlaced Stereoscopic
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...
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...