Archives for “Forte”

Forte VFX1 was the most advanced, complex and expensive consumer VR system that appeared on the market during VR craze in mid-nineties. Introduced in 1995, VFX1 was in the shops all around the world in 1996. Hardware overview System consisted of: Stereoscopic HMD “VFX1 headgear” with built-in 3DOF head-tracker from Honeywell, 45 degree diagonal FOV [...] Related posts:

  1. Back In The USSR
  2. Vuzix Wrap 920 Augmented Reality Hands On
  3. Teardown – Virtual Research V6


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 USA. That was in a few years after IBM-compatible PC’s [...] Related posts:

  1. And I’m Never Going Back To My Old School
  2. Retrospective photo review of Forte VFX1 Virtual Reality system
  3. Back In The Day – Japan 1990