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With all this talk of “holograms” and 3D movies, plus several companies like Nintendo and LG trying to shove portable 3D gaming down our throats, it’s easy to forget that it was all tried once before. Way back in 1991, Sega unveiled the world’s first “holographic” game called Time Traveller, and it was doomed from the start.
It was probably a great idea to start with — I’m sure it even sounded great on paper — but it’s clear even from this unveiling video that it just wasn’t as awesome in reality. Like ancient 3D movies, 3D gaming was rubbish back when it first kicked-off, and until we can get true Star Wars-style holograms working, it’s never going to be truly as awesome as it sounds. [YouTube via Kotaku]
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I (just about!) remember this!, I’m sure one of these was in place at Heathrow Airport, probably T1 airside, think it was about £2-3 quid a pop to play it, and the playing time was quite short (or I was jsut very bad at the game!)
They had one in Southsea, Portsmouth… It was a couple of £’s to play and wasn’t easy and subsequently very short… I played once they decided I had better things to spend my money on. The holographic effect was quite good, the game however wasn’t
I was just talking about this the other day after the Tupac video. The effect was actually really good but the game was absolute rubbish. Hard and unresponsive which was acceptable when it was super expensive. Which made it even more annoying when kids put their hands in to touch the characters when you were playing.
I always found it weird that the tech wasn’t used again. Invented by Victorian era magicians it shouldn’t be that expensive to reproduce.