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3:50 Head Mounted Display Interpupilary Adjustment Mechanism VRtifacts 483 views 1 year ago A brief look at how to adjust the eye spacing between the two lenses of a stereoscopic Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display.
4:20 UFO VRtifacts 329 views 1 year ago Strange stereoscopic animation done with 3D-Studio (the DOS version) back around 1995. Produced by Tony Asch for StrayLight Corp., animation and total weirdness by Steve Sp...
14:34 Virtual Research V6 HMD Teardown VRtifacts 476 views 1 year ago Ever wonder what's inside the Virtual Research V6 Head Mounted Display. We demonstrate the usage of the helmet, disassembly, and the electronics are explored.
7:59 Polhemus Fastrack Setup VRtifacts 507 views 1 year ago The original Polhemus Fastrack was the reference standard for Virtual Reality systems in the 90's. It quickly and continuously computed the X, Y, and Z position and the Pit...
10:00 Converting Anaglyph 3D Movies Into Full Color Side by Side or Top Bottom VRtifacts 20,950 views 1 year ago Over the years many, many 3D movies have been released to VHS, LaserDisc, DVD, and Blu Ray in an anaglyph format (those silly red/cyan or green/magenta glasses are used.) M...
9:59 LEEP Style Optics on the Cheap VRtifacts 2,242 views 1 year ago A quick, inexpensive prototype for wide field of view Virtual Reality optics. With the right LCD this simple $25 two element optic can achieve nearly 90 deg. (diag.) field ...
10:00 Ascension Technology SpacePad - A Virtual Reality Position and Orientation System VRtifacts 414 views 2 years ago The Ascension SpacePad is a 16 bit ISA bus board which can very accurately track the position and orientation of up to 4 sensors. It is primarily used for Virtual Reality s...
8:37 Virtual Research VR-4 HMD Teardown Part 2 VRtifacts 539 views 2 years ago Ever wonder what's inside the Virtual Research VR-4 Head Mounted Display. Part 2of 2 in this series explores further disassembly, circuit boards, backlight, LCD, backlight ...
10:26 Virtual Research VR-4 HMD Teardown Part 1 VRtifacts 844 views 2 years ago Ever wonder what's inside the Virtual Research VR-4 Head Mounted Display. Part 1 of 2 in this series demonstrates the usage of the helmet and disassembly of the front shell...
10:20 Liquid Image MRG2.2 Head Mounted Display, HMD, Teardown - Part 2 VRtifacts 858 views 2 years ago Dis-assembly and internal workings of the Liquid Image MRG2.2 Virtual Reality Head Mounted Display. Part 2 of 2 covers cabling, headphones, interconnections, high resolutio...

About VRtifacts

Who thought wed be doing archeology on Virtual Reality? Its been almost 25 years (maybe more) since VR hit the media and sparked the imagination of millions. So much promised, but often not delivered. To call it a fad or a craze is just too simple. For those of us who were there, VR was a giant wave that swept over us in the late 80s and early 90s, and left quite a bit of wreckage behind as the tide receded.