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Virtuality - Blast from the VR Past (1992)

kevinw729
Honored Visionary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKkZEXGaApE
https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959
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Shadowmask72
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OMG the size of that headset.

Over 20 years later and still not quite there yet. I'm surprised though it's taken this long given what they were doing back then.


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cybereality
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Nice. That was my first experience in VR back in 1993. 
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Shadowmask72
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Hmm, in the 90s I was involved in many other out-of-home experiences Kevin. Mainly around the M25 belt rave scene before John Major (Tories) introduced the CJB forcing people into more organized events and clubs.

Good times.

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kevinw729
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Hmm, in the 90s I was involved in many other out-of-home experiences Kevin. Mainly around the M25 belt rave scene before John Major (Tories) introduced the CJB forcing people into more organized events and clubs.

Good times.


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https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

danknugz
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cybernettr
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Nice. That was my first experience in VR back in 1993. 


 My first VR experience was this van sized unit you climbed into at the shopping mall some time in the late 80s.  There was no headset involved; you simply watched certain experiences on the movie screen in front of you, such as riding in the race car, flying on a jet, etc. while the van rocked and tilted on hydraulic lifters. Because of the perfect synchronization with the video, it was very convincing. Anybody know what this was called? 

kevinw729
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cybernettr said:Anybody know what this was called? 


This?


https://vrawards.aixr.org/ "The Out-of-Home Immersive Entertainment Frontier: Expanding Interactive Boundaries in Leisure Facilities" https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Home-Immersive-Entertainment-Frontier/dp/1472426959

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kevinw729 said:




Thats really really cool. As this is my first couple weeks enjoying VR seeing what they accomplished way back in 1992 when i was 2 years old is pretty crazy. I am surprised as well it took this long but it was probably 20 times more issues back then haha.

I doubt they hit 90fps thats for sure lol. Good video! 

Anonymous
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OMG the size of that headset.

Over 20 years later and still not quite there yet. I'm surprised though it's taken this long given what they were doing back then.


Well if you look at Moore's Law between 90-10's then it makes more sense really, and the explosion into smartphones helped all the small components needed dramatically drop in price to make it affordable. Hence the Oculus Kickstarter was perfectly timed to take advantage of re-purposing phone parts.

Anyone ever take apart a DK2? You'll notice there is a decapitated Samsung Note 3 in there 😛