Atari Jaguar-Related VR Units Show Off Virtuality

Posted by simoniker on Monday February 9, 2004 @12:32AM from the very-max-headroom dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out videogame auction site Bidiots has a pair of Virtuality SU2000 Atari Jaguar-related VR pods for sale. These 1995-era 'virtual reality' arcade machines originally cost "$33,000 - $35,000 per seat", and the machines come bundled with compatible software titles, including Dactyl Nightmare 2, a multiplayer networked shooter in which, if you're not careful, the "awesome [eponymous] beast will pick you up in its claws, and fly hundreds of feet above the playing arena before dropping you to certain death!" A set of specifications for the SU2000 reveals more information, including exciting action shots of the device, and elsewhere, Atari Explorer has pictures of the unreleased Jaguar VR system, an "ambitious plan for a home VR headset at under $300" which used similar technology to this device.

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Hey! by acxr+is+wasted · 2004-02-09 00:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Now I can pay thousands of dollars to look like a jackass, and I won't even have to look at the people laughing at me!

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I remember that... by gabe · 2004-02-09 02:39 · Score: 5, Funny

I played that Dactyl game a long time ago. From what I remember, you could see the other guy's entire body, but if you looked down, all you saw was your left hand with the "gun" in it. It wasn't really a gun so much as it was a mushroom launcher. Damn thing took 5 seconds to reload too.

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