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That VR headset is perfect for my friend Lobot and his buddy Lando.
i once owned something very similar to the bottom thing, but it had it's own screen attached to the steering wheel and throttle.
210 mph? madness.
The car thing actually did exist! I was given one by my grandfather a long time ago. You popped in a VHS video to play on the TV, and pretended to drive the car along the road. The video had cheesy early 90s music, and you raced against a yellow mustang or something. Every time you hit the edge of the track that the car was on, an LED would light up and a buzzer would go off.
crazy.
I've actually seen the toy-car-in-front-of-tv thingy in a toy catalog (circa 1990), so I guess it was produced for real.
I remember seeing a magazine ad or article for that VR headset in EGM back then. (It featured this image, IIRC).
I wanted it soooo badly, but it never seemed to show up at any of the stores I frequented.
Years later, I discovered it never made it out of the prototype stage.
I'm still tempted to build my own VR rig one of these days, 'cause I still feel ripped off from all the unfulfilled promises of the 90's.
That's a pretty mean camel toe on that there diagram
The headset absolutely came out for the Sega Master system (Sega's NES-era system. It more or less made select games 3-d.
Men don't have camel toe. It's called moose knuckles or smuggled fruit on a man.
If you dig into the Sega Head-mounted image display patent, you will find that it is referenced by a patent for a sourceless orientation sensor by a bunch of crazy guys which includes the longtime friend of Boing Boing Mark Pesce.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=8GAnAAAAEBAJ
didnt phllips sell this in the late 90's? called the Scuba, or somthing like that, I dont remember well that far back.....
heres a video....
http://arcadeheroes.com/2008/04/18/a-look-back-at-virtuality/
Mark Pesce is one of the most interesting and forward thinking technologists I've ever had the pleasure of drinking with.
I remember Sega was talking of bringing out a music video editing package for the Megadrive with it's own digital video camera and everything.
Did that ever happen, or is my false memory syndrome playing up again?
I can definitely confirm that the bottom patent made it into production at least in Italy because I still own one!
I've uploaded a picture of it here:
http://server6.theimagehosting.com/image.php?img=Video_Driver.jpg
Sorry for the bad focus but my camera is almost dead...
I also had the car thing--almost the exact one Shamael linked to (I remember mind having a "Sunday Driver" segment). It was kind of lame, but cool in its own way. As I recall, the video had a black and white bar across the bottom that changed with the action, and I suppose the car device read it with some kind of optical sensor so the game knew if you were out of bounds.