The Future of VR.. in 1991 + 1985

There was an old demo for the dk2 that emulated an old school HMD, can't remember the name but it was on the share too, more than a year ago for sure: basically it started with a textureless desk and a heavily reduced FOV (like Dactyl Nightmare too), can't remember if it had low persistence disabled too and overexposed gamma levels, then by clicking a button it switched to modern graphics and full FOV, pretty cool concept.

It would interesting to emulate/port some of the early games with choices of how bad you want it to be, ie including emulating the lag these headsets had.

I had looked up the VFX-1, I will say I do believe that to be the closest to what we are getting now as it was a consumer product yes it wasn't cheap but it was in reach for many.

Yes it was, certainly waaaaay cheaper than the professional HMDs available at the time, plus it worked with a single commonly used home PC with a simple ISA card add-on (included in the price), too bad if you wanted positional tracking you had to sell your car to buy a custom solution ahahah