Top 10 Key Selling Points: Tomytronic 3D
- Thundering Turbo
- Sherman Attack
- Jungle Fighter
- X2 LCD Screens
- Shark Attack
- Planet Zeon
- Skyfighters
- 3D Hardware
- Sky Attack
- Neck Strap
Most of us here in The VR Shop office can remember playing with these as a child. The Tomytronic 3D was a handheld gaming device made by Takara Tomy Co. While it did feature a strap this was not for head mounting because you were supposed to use it like a pair of gaming binoculars, instead this strap was so you can hang it around your neck. This also gave the gaming HMD the impression that it was nothing more than a space age pair of binoculars.
But there was not other use for these headsets other than gaming and it offered a well simulated 3D effect by having two LCD panels that were lit via the see-through panel on the top of the device. This sadly meant you had to stand in the open daylight or directly under a lightbulb. To be fair to it, it was the world’s first dedicated home video 3D hardware and while it wasn’t amazing it was groundbreaking for its time of release.