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So Serious – 1980′s Virtual Reality from NASA

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0 Comments. Posted by Tone on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 3:09 pm.

Filed under 1980's, Helmet, HMD, NASA, Reality, Video, Virtual.

CAVE® – A Virtual Reality Theater – 1993

In 1991, EVL produced its first CAVE® (CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment) prototype, a two screen stereo projection system with single-user tracking and navigation. In late 1991 – early 1992, a 4 screen (3 walls/floor) CAVE® system – now including surround-sound – was completed and premiered at the annual SIGGRAPH Conference. This video provides an overview [...] Related posts:

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5 Comments. Posted by Tone on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at 2:08 pm.

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1995 Virtual IO I-Glasses

1995 Video of Virtual io’s I-Glasses. Virtual reality Head Mounted Display with headtracking. This was the first i-glasses version released and had much lower resolution than the i-glasses they sell today. Back in 1995 this was one of the first affordable home VR headsets along with the Victormaxx cybermaxx and the fortevr VFX-1. The small [...] Related posts:

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0 Comments. Posted by Tone on Monday, March 8, 2010 at 3:40 am.

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Virtusphere – Virtual Hamster

This looks like the closest thing yet to a real-life holodeck! The Virtusphere is (as the name suggests) a large hollow sphere which sits on a set of computer monitored wheels. This allows the sphere to rotate a complete 360º whilst still allowing the computer to track the movments. For more information please visit www.hack247.co.uk [...] Related posts:

  1. So Serious – 1980′s Virtual Reality from NASA
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22 Comments. Posted by Tone on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 6:16 pm.

Filed under Body, Full, Immersion, Reality, Virtual, Virtusphere.