Virtuality Entertainment
Virtuality was a range of virtual reality machines produced by Virtuality Group, and found in video arcades in the early 1990s. The machines delivered real-time VR gaming via a stereoscopic Virtual reality headset, VR headset, joysticks, tracking devices and networked units for a multi-player gaming, multi-player experience. Virtuality Group was originally founded in October 1987 as "W Industries", named after Dr. Jonathan D Waldern, and renamed to Virtuality in 1993. Work by Waldern at the Human Computer Interface Research Unit of De Montfort University, Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), which later moved to Loughborough University, had by 1986 produced a system known as the "Roaming Caterpillar" that could deliver a stereoscopic view of a three-dimensional scene. The image was viewed on a moveable Cathode-ray tube, CRT screen using Active shutter 3D system, shutter glasses, with head and hand tracking incorporating acoustic sensors to determine the user's positio ...
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