This Raspberry Pi VR Headset is Virtually From the 1990s - Tom's Hardware

In the 1990s Virtual Reality headsets were large and bulky. Powered by Commodore Amiga 3000s, "Virtuality" headsets contained conscionable the tech to spot the virtual world, the processing powerfulness was housed successful a pod beneath your feet. But what if the Raspberry Pi was astir successful the 1990s? This thought was realised by Freelance CGI creator Moonshake3D who created a afloat rendered 64-bit VR gaming strategy "Moonshake Stereoscopic Display System" powered by our favourite azygous committee computer.

So lets get this retired of the way. The Moonshake Stereoscopic Display System renders are gorgeous, they look astir excessively bully to beryllium true. The premix of materials, plywood, leather and acrylic sells the second 20th period aesthetic. We would deterioration 1 successful a heartbeat. The tech broadside of things sees 2 virtual Raspberry Pi cameras. Not the latest Camera Module 3, alternatively the render shows 2 Camera Module 2 units moving arsenic a stereoscopic show system. Two authoritative Raspberry Pi cameras connected to 1 Raspberry Pi? Well a mean Raspberry Pi tin lone person 1 camera, truthful this rendered merchandise indispensable beryllium moving a Compute Module unit. Compute Module IO boards person aggregate camera connections, and libcamera tin beryllium instructed to individually power each camera. The emblematic Compute Module IO Board is alternatively large, mostly owed to its dev kit role. Developers are expected to usage the IO committee to make their ain Compute Module powered boards. In the render we tin spot thing of a virtual circuit board. To the near looks to beryllium a microSD paper slot, to the close are immoderate metallic ports which could beryllium USB. The electronics connected the beforehand of the portion are exposed to the elements, large for america to regard upon their beauty, but atrocious for protection. Luckily this is conscionable a render and not a existent product. 

The headset is rendered with a wide plywood construction, and that extends to wherever the user's look meets the unit. There is nary padding for the look of our virtual gamer, but their caput volition beryllium cushioned acknowledgment to a pad connected the backmost of the unit. The plywood connected the span of the chemoreceptor volition beryllium uncomfortable, but the texture utilized successful the render is sublime and looks genuine. The Wi-Fi antenna sticking retired of the portion means that the Compute Module 4 has Wi-Fi, and reminds america truthful overmuch of 90s Sci-Fi TV shows.

This whitethorn not beryllium a existent product, but the attraction and attraction poured into the render is evident and makes america scope for Blender to effort our hand. If it ever becomes real, our currency is waiting for the call.