Get your popcorn and sit back for a packed feature length adventure into the exciting future of Virtual Reality right in your own home! It's 1996 and the VR Surfer is taking you on a voyage through the Third Dimension! Okay... let's see how far I can get in actually getting this system to run on the oldest PC I have, and checking out the hardware and all the literature describing the amazing future that YOU will be having into the late '90's with your own VR Surfer! This one is packed end to end with stuff, so stay tuned for the official VR Surfer video after the credits for an extended treat. And good luck to you all - hope so see you on the other side of Y2K! ☺
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11 thoughts on “Vr surfer – forgotten virtual reality system from 1996!”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Aspen Frost says:

    not gonna lie, thinking about buying this, could this possibly work on a modern system?

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Small World Big Things says:

    Just a small clarification: Virtual Reality and stereoscopic images (visioning) are not the same things 😉

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Evan Hildreth says:

    I used the a similar device in the early '90s, a few years before the VR Surfer. The was the StereoGraphics "CrystalEyes", and instead of interlaced graphics, it used a sync-doubler (I remember hacking together a DB13W3 dongle for it).

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jeff Piper says:

    I have a friend who was stationed in Berlin in the 1950's and drove us military trucks. They had a VR system for driving them without being able to see back then 😉

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Captain Z-Ro says:

    Speaking of VR 'back in the day',…anyone out there remember a short-lived '80s sci-fi TV series called "VR 5"? Lori Singer played the lead role, a hacker who was given access to a VR system and gained the ability to tap into people's minds over the phone line. David McCallum played her computer-expert father, mostly in flashback scenes. In the final episode, he turned up alive, after being presumed dead, in a cliffhanger ending,…and those rotten bean-counting studio execs cancelled the series. Aaaaaaargh.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Andrew Stones says:

    The Sony Vaio back in 2000 was the sexist computer in the shop, but they were so expensive. Windows Me was slow and barely fit for purpose even on the best hardware. The date of 1997 on first boot would be coming from the bios and not from windows by the way. I’m not a big fan of windows at all, but I have to say that xp was a massive improvement on Me/98/95.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sing Along with Dan says:

    Correction…Young Harvill, a software engineer for Jaron's company VPL Research, came up with the exact term "Virtual Reality". The way the story goes, Jaron came up with Virtual, and Young came up with pairing it with Reality.

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars logan graham says:

    i didn't exist in 1995/1996 ,

    but sure i had email XD 🙂

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Suraj Grewal says:

    I think you can run it on any CRT screen computer with windows 7 using IZ3d software

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars EvansdiAl says:

    Im disappointing to discover you don't have an onlyfans account.

    do you have instagram?

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars grg121344 says:

    just a drunken comment:

    awesome hat 🙂

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