Tag: OldSchool

The state of Virtual Reality .. in 1993 !

The guys at EVL are posting a lot of videos !! Those two show a state of VR in 1993, with an impressive list of videos and applications. It would be really nice to have one such video…

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Future Crew – Second Reality

Just a small post to show you a video of one of the most famous, old-school demos : Second Reality, by Future Crew (1993). Back then you had to tweak your autoexec.bat and config.sys to get enough memory…

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Old school VR by Sega and Nintendo

Did you know that in 1995 Nintendo released a portable VR console, called the Virtual Boy ? With a monochrome stereoscopic HMD with a 384×224 resolution, it was priced at 180$ and reportedly Nintendo sold 700’000 units. The…

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VR Nostalgia, look at the future!

Back in the 90s there was a lot of hype about Virtual Reality, but the technology didn’t live up to the expectations. I found this video of one of the most famous movie about VR, Johnny Mnemonic (1995)…

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Another world, another time

Tonight I went to a conference organized by the french chapter of the International Game Developpers Association, about old school game development. Invited were Philippe ULRICH et Didier BOUCHON, from ERE Informatique, authors of some mythical games like…

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