Comprising of a prefabricated piece of cardboard with perforations and fold lines, two lenses, a magnet, pieces of velcro and a rubber band. For those that had to purchase it the cost was minimal thanks primarily to the form it took. Google decided (either initially as a joke or perhaps as a result of the engineers they have on board) to create their own VR option and in mid 2014 released “Google Cardboard”… the biggest appeal to Google Cardboard was the cost outlay to try it… for some it was free, being released at Google I/O in 2014 for Android devices and the following year for iPhone. Through the DK1 and DK2, to Crescent Bay and beyond, Oculus developed steam and more and more people took an interest to the re-emergence of VR. Whether it was just the right time to re-introduce VR or simply the concept of the Oculus Rift that caught the publics imagination… but whatever it was, the public did indeed start talking. Now jump to 2012… a kickstarter campaign began for the Oculus Rift a VR headset design that aspired to bring VR to the average PC user. But that was more or less the end of VR for a long time… so far from being a new age of gaming and computing… it was a so-so movie and a short lived fad gaming experience.Īlso in those heady days of the early 1990’s I remember an episode of Beyond 2000 that featured a segment on sterescopic 3D… they even showed a portion of the segment in stereoscopic 3D and advised viewers to cross their eyes and then uncross them a little (much like the technique that can be used for the Magic Eye books)… sure enough the image appeared as 3D. I personally played this and though my memory is no doubt fuzzy… it seemed like fun, if very short and expensive. Many years ago a movie came out called Lawnmower man, in it a scientist attempts to help a mentally deficient gardener (the Lawnmower man) increase his intelligence via a virtual reality environment.Īround the same time as this a unique arcade experience came out called Dactyl Nightmare in which the player stepped into a large contraption, a headset placed (appropriately) over their head and they were “transported” to a minimalist world of chequered platforms and the eponymous Dactyl that would inevitably fly down and attempt to kill you… all you had was what seemed like a pop gun. By Chris O'Connor Lawnmower man and the Oculus, or how I learnt to stop worrying and love VR
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