{"id":1197,"date":"2016-05-10T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=1197"},"modified":"2016-05-10T11:55:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T16:55:17","slug":"retro-scan-vream-virtual-reality-development-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/1197\/retro-scan-vream-virtual-reality-development-system","title":{"rendered":"[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> VREAM Virtual Reality Development System"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VREAM<\/a>If it’s as easy to use as it is to pronounce, then I want it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I was so excited about PC-based virtual reality back in the 1990s. I remember reading the early Web (circa 1995-96) about how people would build their own HMD goggles and modify a NES Power Glove to use as input for certain VR software packages. I wanted to do that too, but never did.<\/p>\n

I also played some shareware 3D world demos where you could walk around a polygonal-3D town (and prior to that, I had vivid dreams about jumping into a 3D computer-generated world that looked like the Money for Nothing<\/em><\/a> Dire Straits video).<\/p>\n

Apparently, VREAM<\/a> made some of those 1990s VR demos possible. It was a PC-based virtual reality development system created by VREAM, Inc. of Chicago. I have never used it, but it looks neat.<\/p>\n

This ad comes from the back cover of an issue of PCVR magazine<\/a> that I got from a relative. You can read more about that in this Retro Scan from 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[ From PCVR, January-February 1994, back cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n

Discussion Topic:<\/strong> Did you use any 3D modeling software in the 1990s? Tell us about it.<\/p>\n

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