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I remember trying a VR game in a shopping centre in Malta of all places in the 90s. They strapped you in a harness and you walked on an omnidirectional treadmil
by alias_neo 7y ago
I remember trying a VR game in a shopping centre in Malta of all places in the 90s. They strapped you in a harness and you walked on an omnidirectional treadmill within a "ring".
The game was basic, early "3d" (in the gaming sense), low polygon, low resolution, no depth or actual streoscopic, but this was the 90s.
I tried to check it out again on a subsequent visit to Malta but it had of course gone. Real shame, I saw nothing of its kind for decades later.
- neotek 7y agoSounds like Dactyl Nightmare! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xj7qPEUEq0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xj7qPEUEq0
- alias_neo 7y agoOh this is cool, it wasn't this one from what I recall (which isn't a lot). The main things I remember are; it was an FPS, it was indoors/enclosed, the lighting was bad so it was really hard to tell where walls/corners were and it was very, very red. The controller was sort of ring/oval shaped, I remember basically nothing about the headset other than that it was tethered.
- nytesky 7y agoThis rig like from "Community": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQEiXST_qms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQEiXST_qms
- alias_neo 7y agoYes it was like that, but standalone, the computer, I presume was in the base, which was like a platform; about a foot-high puck shape you stood on within the ring which had the treadmill built in. Edit: I seem to recall it costing 2 lira for a turn.