From: kddlab!lkbreth.foretune.co.jp!trebor@uunet.UU.NET (Robert J Woodhead)
Subject: Re: Yes, there are VR video games
Date: 3 Jul 91 03:16:43 GMT
Organization: Foretune Co., Ltd.  Tokyo Japan




jet@karazm.math.uh.edu (J Eric Townsend) writes:

>Race Drivin' has a standard shift, with clutch, brake and gas.  At
>least the one I play does.  There's also a "wraparound" unit with
>three monitors, but I've yet to play it.

There's a new one out in Japan that uses 3 monitors for the wrap-
around that's pretty cool.  But the current top-of-the-heap
coolness wise is Sega's R-360, a version of their G-LOC fighter
plane game where you get spun 360 degrees in two axes as you play.
There's one in Shibuya in the Sega arcade near the Shibuya
Hanzomon line exit nearest the Shibuya Post Office.  Y500 a game.

Couple the R-360 to a decent VR "virtual cockpit" and then network
a few of them together and you'd have one hell of a game.
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