Stereoscopic Head Mounted Mechanical Display

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Stereoscopic Head Mounted Mechanical Display

Postby gary » Sun Jun 01, 2008 2:23 pm

Here is the US Patent of the display system for the HMD used in Nintendo's "Virtual Boy" in the mid 90's. A system that failed in a Baird-esque way really, i.e. lack of support from the "Big Boys", etc, ...
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Re: Stereoscopic Head Mounted Mechanical Display

Postby Andrew Davie » Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:54 pm

gary wrote:Here is the US Patent of the display system for the HMD used in Nintendo's "Virtual Boy" in the mid 90's. A system that failed in a Baird-esque way really, i.e. lack of support from the "Big Boys", etc, ...


I have two of these put away somewhere in the garage. Great looking gadget, but a bit of a headache to actually use.
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