As VR continues its long slog towards the mainstream, people are going
to keep making weird things with it. Inspired by his 12-year-old
daughter's science fair project on the subject of virtual reality,
jim_64 decided to make a set of VR goggles commemorating a device that
came out decades before she was born: the Commodore 64.
As far as custom VR builds go, this is relatively on the cheap side.
With a $10 plastic VR goggle, a $26 LCD, and a cheap power transformer,
Jim was able to play a game he custom built for the system, Street Defender. He says on his blog :
The solution was, he says,
to settle the "objects at the same center being the furthest out and
only moving them both towards the center, up to 10 pixels each, as the
3D effect."
It's the most revolutionary use of VR since playing catch.
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