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bradneuberg | 1 year ago

The interesting thing is that the original chip inside the N64 was created by Silicon Graphics and was called Project Reality, and it was originally created to pursue consumer VR before that whole industry blew up in the 90s and it was made to power a 3D console instead. More details: https://medium.com/@AguyinaRPG/the-nintendo-64-was-the-culmi...

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ompogUe|1 year ago

Got to play with the N64 at the "soft" launch at SIGGRAPH '96. It was pretty mind-blowing.

But even more mind-blowing was the SGI booth where they had an Onyx running a VR demo where the user was building downtown New Orleans in legos. Based on that, our shop actually found quite a few customers willing to pay for VRML development, of all things.

Rinzler89|1 year ago

They already had called it the EyePhone. I'm dying