Palmer Luckey "Virtual Boy's association with virtual reality has hurt the industry"

Gunpei Yokoi was one of the greatest minds that have ever worked on Nintendo. However, his latest work for the company Kyoto became, for dessert, in one of his few black spots on his immaculate record: the Virtual Boy. The device offered users of Nintendo the chance to enjoy an archaic experience of virtual reality with the signing exclusive games Mario in a new console that had to live in 1995 with Super Nintendo, Gameboy and a few months of the release of Nintendo 64 . He never got off the ground.

It ended in resounding failure, one of the most important and unprecedented signature then led by Hiroshi Yamauchi. The output was sounded Yokoi and Nintendo gave shelved the virtual reality. The founder of Oculus VR, Palmer Luckey, spoke of the significance of the invention in a new session of questions and answers on Reddit: "Actually it was not a virtual reality device had no head tracking, had a short field of view. TV and 3D was essentially a monochrome A real shame too. The Virtual Boy association with virtual reality has hurt the industry in the long term. "