I dare someone to make a portable virtual boy D:

neocopernicus · Post by **neocopernicus** » Thu May 22, 2008 7:27 am

APHawkes wrote:You know, people already wear ridiculous things on their heads (I'm speaking of Bluetooth headsets). This would be an oversized helmet. Not bad, really.

Any of you see Serial Experiments Lain? I'm thinking of the insane guy who walked around with a computer helmet on his head. Yeah, it looked that bad. That's what I think about when I think about making the VB portable.

Although I don't know how the the VB works. Is it one screen or two?

lovablechevy · Post by **lovablechevy** » Thu May 22, 2008 11:28 am

neocopernicus wrote:Although I don't know how the the VB works. Is it one screen or two?

two screens. one for each eye. that's how you get the 3d effect.

Grandmasterjimmy · Post by **Grandmasterjimmy** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:20 pm

If you put both screens next to each other, and went cross eyed you could still get the effect

So a portable is still possible

lovablechevy · Post by **lovablechevy** » Thu May 22, 2008 12:26 pm

you can technically play most of the games with only one screen, it just won't be 3d. after all, emulators don't really do the 3d thing well, and those roms are still all playable.

Post by **bicostp** » Thu May 22, 2008 1:13 pm

Could always use some (undoubtedly complex) circuitry to change the color of one image and blend them onto one screen for 3D glasses use.

But yeah, there's only a couple games worth playing out of its (literal) handful of titles, so why bother?

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Fri May 23, 2008 7:31 am

if it was rgb you could just switch red with blue lolololol

project_failure · Post by **project_failure** » Fri May 23, 2008 2:43 pm

neocopernicus wrote:
APHawkes wrote:You know, people already wear ridiculous things on their heads (I'm speaking of Bluetooth headsets). This would be an oversized helmet. Not bad, really.
Any of you see Serial Experiments Lain? I'm thinking of the insane guy who walked around with a computer helmet on his head. Yeah, it looked that bad. That's what I think about when I think about making the VB portable.

Although I don't know how the the VB works. Is it one screen or two?

Lain is god!

Yeah I remember the poor guy with that head set. Weird but funny.

NixonTech2071 · Post by **NixonTech2071** » Fri May 23, 2008 4:44 pm

Kyo wrote:if it was rgb you could just switch red with blue lolololol

Dark glowing red is ten times better then blue, trust me. I made a mistake putting my eyes in extremely bright blue light before and hated myself for a week... how about a greyish dim light?

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Sat May 24, 2008 7:01 am

I meant for the 3d glasses idea, but it was a joke anyway, it's not that simple