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VR systems without head-mounted hardware were also developed in the 1990s, including the Cave automatic virtual environment (CAVE). Sega developed a low-cost VR device, the Sega VR, in the early 1990s, for its arcade games and home consoles the unit did not advance beyond the prototype stage, though Sega incorporated some of its head-tracking technology into its arcade cabinets. Only 22 games were produced for the Virtual Boy, and it was considered to be one of Nintendo's commercial failures. The system was thus awkward to use both from looking into the viewer and the eyestrain from the red LEDs. The Virtual Boy used red LED displays rather than full-color ones, as they were the most inexpensive to produce, and required mounting to a stand to be played, rather than head-mounted. Seeking funding for larger production, RTI licensed the technology to Nintendo, and under Gunpei Yokoi, Nintendo developed the Virtual Boy, released in 1995. One application they had tested included a tank game. (RTI) had been developing a head-mounted, stereoscopic head-tracking system using light-emitting diode (LED) displays, the Private Eye. Interest in VR grew in the 1990s, particularly after the 1992 film Lawnmower Man, which helped popularize the idea of VR headsets with the general public. The heads-up viewscreen of Nintendo's Virtual Boy Its low cost compared to the DataGlove and other similar gloves led academics to buy the unit for their own research. About one million Power Glove units were sold before Mattel discontinued it in 1990. The games Super Glove Ball and Bad Street Brawler were specifically designed to use the Power Glove, while other NES games could be played using the Power Glove by mapping its output to various controls. The idea inspired engineers at Abrams/Gentile Entertainment (AGE) to work with Mattel and Nintendo to build a low-cost version of the DataGlove to work with the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), omitting much of the technical sophistication and movement sensitivity of the DataGlove as to achieve a reasonable consumer cost. One of VPL's products was the VPL DataGlove, a glove that sensed the user's finger movement and translated it into computer input. Zimmerman, former programmers for Atari, Inc., began developing hardware under the name VPL Research, with Lanier coining the term "virtual reality" for their products. In the late 1980s, Jaron Lanier and Thomas G. The first VR head mounted display that was connected to a computer.

#Virtual headset for xbox software#

Research into virtual reality (VR) hardware and software started as early as 1968 by Ivan Sutherland and his student Bob Sproull, but most equipment was too expensive for consumer use, and its use for games was limited.

See also: Virtual reality § History Early VR games (1980s-2000s)