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- From: kennethk@prysm.net (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
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- Subject: Re: I-glasses, USA??
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 16:46:51 GMT
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- >Remember reading about these a few weeks back, think some US company made
- >them based outta Wa. or Or. Called a few mail order houses here & have not
- >found any that carry them, anyone know wwho might?
- > Also was wondering, think there was a NSTC & PAL version, if ones primary
- >reason for getting them is to play games which ussualy require a PAL boot,
- >will you need to order the PAL version?
- > Looking for a place that sells them here in the US & may have info, also
- >anyone who has them is invited to give me your opinion of what you think of
- >them.
-
- Scott,
-
- You are referring to Virtual IO. They make the product Escom
- now sells in Germany called the 'Virtual I-glasses.' You can reach their
- web page at:
-
- http://www.vio.com (based in California I believe)
-
-
- I bought a pair not to long ago in Dallas (CompUSA sells them). Not
- real impressed. I took them back. When I bought them they cost $860.00
- including sales tax. It came with a few game demos, but it really was
- not worth the money IMHO. Poor resolution and chalky colors were my
- biggest complaint. The 3-D aspect of them *did* work, though. It was
- kinda cool. The CompUSA store I bought them from had a demo unit set up
- for you to play with, but it was broke the day I drove 200 frikkin miles
- one way to check it out, so I *had* to buy them :-) I must note that
- I used them on my Zeos P-75, not the Amiga. Sad to say, even on a P75 the
- games were not to smooth when using the head-tracking feature. The games
- I tried it with were:
-
- Heretic (A demo version included with the i-glasses, no 3-D I think)
- Ascent (a demo also, used 3-D)
- Descent (a demo came with it, but I had the full game already, used 3-D)
- Flight Unlimited (cool virtual cockpit, but choppy and no 3-D)
- Mech Warrior II (cool also, but head tracking was all it used, no 3-D)
- Some other small games/utils on the CD that came with it.
-
- That was it. It also came with a video tape that had 3-D segments on it.
- Would be cool if that catches on. By nature, the Virtual i-glasses accept
- your average RCA type composite video out (like on the back of the VCR). To
- get them to work with the IBM, you basically get a VGA to composite convertor
- with a VGA pass thorough with the i-glasses. The head-traking module (which
- is the only difference between the video only version and the PC version,
- hooks up to the serial port. It needs work, that's all I will say. If the
- price came down on the video only version, that's proabaly what I would get,
- as the head-traking module just velcros to the back of the video version so I
- dont see why it cant be added later. But again, with out an increase in the
- resolution (currently 640x320 I think), they aren't worth it *IMHO*.
-
- -Ken
-
- I'd be happy to answer any further questions about it.
-
- Oh, and mine was NTSC, you'd probably lose the bottom of a PAL screen with
- them since they only have the viewing capabilities of a standard TV.
-
-