[computronus]

My favorite project ever in undergraduate was getting these glasses to work with a PC. We got the specs (pun intended) from online resources and a how-to VR book published at the time (mid-90s). My partner designed / assembled the circuit board to interface the glasses to the PC's serial port, and I wrote a display driver that would switch video pages and simultaneously trigger the glasses to flip shutters. The result was 3D on a PC screen.

The demo program was a robotic arm simulator that my partner already had on hand, since it could easily render wireframes. The updated simulator rendered two wireframes of Optimus Prime, so with the driver in place, he floated in front of the screen.

And, of course, you could rotate him in space, and then hit the space bar to transform him in 3D.

[Melraidin]

Was it this book? https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1990755

I hacked up a Powerglove to connect to my PC. Always wanted to get the Sega glasses too but didn't have the resources at the time.

[computronus]

I think it was this one, The Virtual Reality Construction Kit by Gradecki. The cover looks very familiar!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3165591-the-virtual-real...

[Melraidin]

Didn't come across that one at the time. Wish I'd tried more to get a homebrew VR setup going.

I still have that VR book in my basement. Along with my first computer book, Practical Things To Do With A Microcomputer. Usborne has these online: https://usborne.com/ca_en/books/computer-and-coding-books