Nintendo To Announce Virtual Boy 2

SlappingOysters writes Nintendo has officially unveiled the development of its next home console, codenamed the NX. This article at finder puts forward the case that Nintendo will be stepping back into the virtual realty game with a follow-up to its ill-fated 1995 peripheral, the Virtual Boy. It would be going head-to-head with the Vive, Project Morpheus and the much-rumoured, not yet announced, Microsoft VR unit.

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[TraumaFox]

Posting an article's baseless speculation about what an announcement means takes away all the fun of letting us baselessly speculate about what an announcement means.

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[ArcadeMan]

Here's hoping you don't have to sit the thing on a table, lean forward awkwardly and stare at 2 colors[...]

It was four shades of red, you insensitive clod!

No wait, it says:

Reflection Technologies Inc. SLA Model P4 – monochromatic red, LED display
384 x 224 pixel resolution (produced by mechanically scanning each 1 × 224 LED array)
Four simultaneous shades per 4-pixel column (black + 3 red, of approximately 128 levels of intensity)
50 Hz[6] double-buffered frame rate

What is "four shades per 4-pixel column" supposed to mean? And how does black + three shades of red (2-bit) turns into 128 levels of intensity (7-bit)?

Re:My eyes....

[ArcadeMan]

It wasn't the Virtual Boy's fault.

Twenty minutes playing that and your eyeballs bleed when you return to sunlight.

You went outside. That's your problem.