First experience with VR?

[Mark2036]

Dactyl Nightmare was state-of-the-art at the time. It was a fully 3D rendered networked multiplayer game in the early 90's. I mean, it still has some elements that are advanced even for today's games (for example, independent gun and head tracking). I know the game itself was pretty basic, and the graphics don't hold up, but give it some credit. There were not a lot of 3D games back then, and they were paving new territory.

Not just independent head and hand tracking, but body tracking too. Remember the waistband you wore attached to a cable I think that measured how you turned your body.

Dactyl Nightmare was awesome and ahead of its time. I hope someone ports it to rift and implements hand and body tracking somehow one day so I ca. Re-live the nostalgia

Infact, perhaps we could copy the mechanical method of body and gun tracking used in virtuality rigs and combine it with rift?

[V8Griff]

Dactyl Nightmare was state-of-the-art at the time. It was a fully 3D rendered networked multiplayer game in the early 90's. I mean, it still has some elements that are advanced even for today's games (for example, independent gun and head tracking). I know the game itself was pretty basic, and the graphics don't hold up, but give it some credit. There were not a lot of 3D games back then, and they were paving new territory.

Not just independent head and hand tracking, but body tracking too. Remember the waistband you wore attached to a cable I think that measured how you turned your body.

Dactyl Nightmare was awesome and ahead of its time. I hope someone ports it to rift and implements hand and body tracking somehow one day so I can Re-live the nostalgia

The waistband you needed for the 1000CS wasn't actually anything to do with tracking I'm afraid as it was just head and joystick tracking.

The CS was an adaptation of a unit that was originally intended to be a 'workstation' and the waistband was a form of 'junction box' similar to the break out unit supplied with the Rift that the HMD and joystick where plugged into.

Interestingly however the workstation version also had a compressor built into it that was used to drive a force feedback glove. I tried it at Virtuality's offices, early days when they were still W-Industries, and it was a very odd feeling to 'shake' the hand of a virtual character and feel a squeeze!!

They even did a 'trans-atlantic' virtual handshake once which was pretty cool considering this was the early '90s and pre broadband internet.