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> first generation of PC VR What do you mean by this? I'm only asking for clarification, because when I hear "first generation of PC VR" - I think "REND386".
by cr0sh 9y ago
> first generation of PC VR
What do you mean by this?
I'm only asking for clarification, because when I hear "first generation of PC VR" - I think "REND386".
I doubt, though, that many other people do, because for some reason, all of that old history and the lessons from it have seemingly had to be "re-discovered" with VR technology after the Rift came out.
- Ajedi32 9y agoOculus CV1 and the Vive are commonly considered to be "first gen" headsets in the modern VR community, with anything older than that (including recent stuff like the Oculus DK1) being essentially just experiments leading up to the development of gen 1. Though as with anything involving multiple "generations" of products, the exact definition is pretty fuzzy.
- andybak 9y agoYeah - I did wonder about clarifying that as I typed it - there's obviously a long history to VR (I'm a child of the 80s so I'm not completely ignorant of the twists and turns of computing history)
- Stratoscope 9y agoVR was a big deal in 1995: https://books.google.com/books?id=79i1lfAqumUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA168#v=onepage&q&f=true https://books.google.com/books?id=79i1lfAqumUC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA...
- andybak 9y agoI remember it well on BBC Tomorrow's World. I'm always tempted to watch "The Lawnmower Man" although I suspect it hasn't aged terribly well.