The Nintendo Virtual Boy, released nearly 20 years ago was seen as one of Nintendo’s largest flops, a mostly failed attempt to ride the 1990’s wave of hype that surrounded the notion of virtual reality found in movies like ‘The Lawnmower Man‘ into the real world.
The below piece by Fast Company does a great job of looking at the 3d devices seed idea, how it made it to Nintendo, and it’s ultimate failure in the market.