Archives for “Motion Platform”

Regis Takes a Spin

You know the wave has crested when Regis and Kathie Lee make your specialty an early morning featurette. Reeg hams it up beautifully. If it hadn’t been for that 3:30am load in, it might have been perfect. Dave Polinchock provides expert narration. Quick glimpse of an SGI Indigo on the left, and the Virtual Research [...] Related posts:

  1. Myron Kruger Takes a Spin in the Flight Helmet
  2. Warning Will Robinson, Warning!
  3. Nothing New Under the Sun!

0 Comments. Posted by Tone on Friday, December 18, 2009 at 4:54 pm.

Filed under 1993, Flight Helmet, Helmet, HMD, Motion Platform, Orbotron, Polinchock, Regis and Kathie Lee, Regis Philbin, Virtual Research.

Another Gyro VR – Orbotron X O Tron VR

1995 brought us yet another Gyro based VR Game system, the X-O-Tron VR, a descendant of the original non-electronic gyro-exercise system, the Orbotron. Initially inspired by the March 1992 release of Lawnmower Man, the first gyro VR systems appeared that summer (full disclosure – my company built a prototype system for a client in the [...] Related posts:

  1. Virtual Boy – Another Perspective…
  2. Display Mounted Head? – Kimera
  3. Myron Kruger Takes a Spin in the Flight Helmet

0 Comments. Posted by Tone on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at 5:51 pm.

Filed under 1995, Helmet, HMD, Motion Platform, Orbotron, Virtual Reality Inc.

A Sweet Ride – IAAPA ’94

By 1994 the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions (IAAPA) exhibition floor was packed with VR systems. As a potential marketplace, blood was in the water and you couldn’t tell the fish from the sharks. With a very few exceptions most of these companies had been chewed up, eaten and excreted as waste by [...] Related posts:

  1. Myron Kruger Takes a Spin in the Flight Helmet
  2. 6 lbs. 12 oz. – It’s a Baby Headmount! – Liquid Image MRG2
  3. Lawrence Taylor Teams Up With Virtual Reality

0 Comments. Posted by Tone on Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 5:12 pm.

Filed under 1994, Helmet, HMD, IAAPA, Marketing, Motion Platform.