Pac-Man V R

The game plays very much like Pac-Man but it is played in first-person persective -- you are Pac-Man!

The headset has sensors in it which can locate the player's position in the game. For example if the player turns his head left or right Pac-Man turns left or right. Pac-Man can squat if the player sits down or it can look over walls if the player stands and looks up. To move forward the player pushes a button on a hand-held joystick.

The cabinet is round and has two half rings at about waist level. One side of the rings lifts up so the player can get inside the cabinet. The rings serve two purposes, one to keep the player from wondering off aimlessly and the other is for the tracking system in the headset.

The VR unit was run on Virtuality's CS2000, (Cyber Station). This CS was the revision of a much older unit know as CS1000. The CS1000 and Virtuality is most known in the VR circles for their game Dactyl Nightmare. The CS2000 was run on, at the time, a standard PC with a LAN network card and one of the first commercially available graphics cards with a special connector to the headset. It used a headset called a Visette. The interface was a headset and a space stick or 3D Joystick. Both interface units contained tracking sensors. The half ring at waist level contained a "Source" which generated a EMI Field that the sensors would pickup and calculate the 3D position based on the Source's relative position. The tracking system was made by Polhemus. It was the Fast-Track tracker.