About: The MetaMersion Immersive Gaming System is a cutting-edge gaming platform designed to let you play your favorite PC-based game titles in a fully immersive, virtual reality environment. You “step inside” the game and move through the virtual landscape – just as you would do in the real world. You can: physically walk around; crouch and take cover behind virtual objects; shoot around corners; look up, down, and even behind you. No other gaming platform comes close to the realism and interaction provided by the MetaMersion Immersive Gaming System.
Meta Mersion Specs and Info…
Device: Meta Mersion
Manufacturer: MetaMersion, LLC
Announced Date: July 2006
Release Date: Never Publicly Released
Launch Price: N/A
Device Type: VR Headset (PC Powered)
Display: Unknown
Diagonal Field of View(FOV): Unknown
Refresh Rate: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
CPU: N/A
GPU: N/A
Battery: N/A
Tracking: Unknown
Controllers: MetaMersion Assault Rifle Controller
Our Thoughts: Looking back at the MetaMersion immersive gaming system (to give it its full name) it makes you wonder how on earth they failed! It has everything we gamers needed to make a truly amazing virtual reality gaming experience, but yet the company never got the funding t put this headset into production! Bitterness aside we have to take a look at the headset for what it was. Could this headset really live up to this marketing claim: “You step inside the game and move through the virtual landscape — just as you would do in the real world. You can: physically walk around; crouch and take cover behind virtual objects; shoot around corners; look up, down, and even behind you”
Finding stats out for this headset are like trying to find the Loch Ness Monster. They might exist somewhere, but you might never find them. Powered by a very heavy looking backpack you got to play first person shooter games with a full gun controller. It was often said, “You’re seeing what virtual reality gaming should always have been like.” and it seems we have all had to wait a lot longer for it, time that was not necessary. Still, there is no point in dwelling on the past, the new wave of virtual reality is here and should stay around a lot longer this time.
Sources used…
- https://web.archive.org/web/20060813095134/http://www.metamersion.com/aboutMM.html