About: NASA’s Ames Research Center played host to a VR research project launched by Michael McGreevy in 1985 and within a year it was ready to show off a working prototype of its Virtual Visual Environment Display (VIVED) helmet at CES.
NASA VIVED Specs and Info…
Device: NASA VIVED
Manufacturer: NASA, VPL Research
Announced Date: April 1986
Release Date: Unknown
Launch Price: Unknown
Device Type: VR Headset (PC Powered)
Display: 2.7″ LCD Screens at 240 X 120 (Per Eye)
Diagonal Field of View(FOV): 120°
Refresh Rate: 30 Hz
Weight: Unknown
CPU: N/A
GPU: N/A
Battery: N/A
Tracking: 3 DoF Non-positional (Gyroscope Based)
Controllers:
Our Thoughts: The NASA VIVED stands for “Virtual Visual Environment Display” (Seems they just made the ‘I’ part up to make it sound better) and it was a prototype visual environment system that was made by NASA at their Ames Research Center. What is odd about this headset was that it features much the same tech as the NASA VIEW HMD but with an aim to make it more public!
Once again we probably have a lot to thank NASA for when it comes to today’s virtual reality headsets. I’m sure that the boffins in NASA come up with so many amazing things they wanted to do with this tech that it would have given film makes years of material. But sadly for both of them at the time the tech simply wasn’t ready.
Sources used…
- https://www.engadget.com/2013-12-15-time-machines.html