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Re: Hi All!
« on: July 21, 2006, 09:54:24 PM »
I remember back in the early 90's when (if you read the gaming press at all)  'Virtual Reality' was all set to be the next big thing.

Atari made that headset for the Jaguar, and Nintendo gave us the Virtual Boy, and the local arcades had those VR arcade cabinets...  there were even people selling ridiculously expensive VR headsets that plugged into your PC so you could play Doom and Magic Carpet on it.  And Lawnmower Man came out in the cinema, billed as the 'first virtual reality movie'.

And then the novelty wore off and it dawned on people that consumer VR was actually overhyped rubbish and that nobody wanted to pay hundreds of dollars to wear some ridiculous HMD and bulky gloves just to play a game at 7 fps and get motion sickness.  Atari died without their VR headset ever seeing the light of day, Virtual Boy became Nintendo's first ever flop, and the VR games disappeared from the arcades.

I think 'VR' still sees some use in medical and military simulation though.

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