The Failures and Futures of Virtual Reality (Ep. 7)
Gamecraft
The Future of VR
The mantle of VR kind of gets picked up by an odd collection of companies, primarily toy companies. Nintendo licenses this heads up display from a little Massachusetts company and turns it into this thing called the Virtual Boy. Hasbro hires a bunch of ex-military people who came out of the simulations world to build these VR deck that basically never ships but they try it in the 1990s. That's basically where a lot of the interesting consumer VR moved after the death of VPL or some of these toy company projects is into the arcade.
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