LGR Oddware - Sony Glasstron HMD from the 90s

[@SibaNL]

May cause loss of vision. Then you know it will be good.

[@322tor]

So if u watch a porno with the glasstron u get blindness and seizures too, what more do you want? The powerglove or R.O.B.?

[@tarnvedra9952]

This product should have been advertised by Troy McClure.

[@99domini99]

+Not me! and sleeping gives you cancer.

[@99domini99]

sounds like the average news site.

[@Jhud69]

It doesn't. It's one of the myths made to prevent people from masturbating because it's "unholy". If it was true then normal sex would cause blindness as well because your body has no way of knowing whether you're masturbating or actually having sex, there's no difference between these.

[@The.RND2]

More info on these. There were several models, some included VGA support and I think it was 800x600 if I remember correctly. Those were on the high end. I worked for a VR company in the late 90's and early 2000's. We had several prototypes/demos of these from Sony and a few other makers such as Olympus. I know we were one of the very first US companies to get a "final" of these and it was not until very late 1999, so I can confirm that the US release was in 1999. We also had many of the "final" versions eventually, both of the Olympus and the Glasstron. They were WAY ahead of their time. All the versions I used included a flip-up shutter so that the glasses were translucent, and the company I was working for used them for Augmented Reality before it had that catchy name. The goal was to help repair large equipment on-site such as large earth moving equipment, generators, robot arms in factories, etc. I remember the VGA input right in the battery box. As these were still thousands of dollars cheaper than VR headsets at the time, we augmented them with some 6DOF accelerometers and made them interactive. The prototypes and more expensive models had little side "cups" or blinders to further immerse you. I do remember as some commenters have said a strap on most models, which we attached the 6DOF device to. Even the earliest pairs I remember having the cool blue color. Eye strain was and continues to be a problem with these. The last thing I remember is selling these on eBay for the company after all the dev work was completed. I had several people in the US Navy purchase them as they were compact and portable for the time, allowing a game system to be played without a TV. Just a cool Oddware item that has roots in the VR world. Thank you for sharing Clint! A great blast from the past!

[@soleneisconbi7302]

Rob Daniel the term Augmented Reality was coined in 1990 by Boeing researcher Tom Caudell.

[@CeeStyleDj]

@@soleneisconbi7302 but hardly anyone knew that phrase until recent years.

[@soleneisconbi7302]

CeeStyleDj but surely a company as he says and I quote "WAY ahead of their time" should know a term that is at that point, is 9 years old in that industry.

[@CeeStyleDj]

@@soleneisconbi7302 Yes I do agree, internally Sony had most likely heard of the term - but not your average consumer.

[@JustJanitor]

Gaming without a tv!! Hellz yeah

[@flexarnn]

WAIT!!! Use them as a viewfinder? Holy macaroni, use them as a viewfinder put the camera on a pole from your back and BAM real life third person....... Its probably not a good idea though.

[@thearousedeunuch]

GTA: LGR Stories.

[@SpiffingNZ]

Lies. This is a great idea.

[@MattMcIrvin]

DIY out-of-body experience!

[@U014B]

That would be incredible for an episode of Thrifts.

[@PedroKing19]

@@MattMcIrvin Diy disassociation

[@jsward96]

Glasstron: No, I am your father. PSVR: That's not true, that's impossible! Glasstron: Search your feelings, you know it be true. PSVR: Nooooo!!!!

[@sighshell8670]

You sir, have won the Internets

[@bitchslapthesun]

Best comment ever.

[@deviroz]

The weird thing is that Sony actually kept making HMD all this years, there is even the Sony HMZ-T3W that is 2 years old. Those Japanese really want to get out of the real world.

[@memberberry6177]

Comment of the day!!

[@Marshal6000]

I was thinking the same thing lol!

[@Dreadjaws]

"Let's play some Crash Mode" *crashes car right at the start of the race* Man, now _that's_ a perfectly named gameplay mode.

[@uiopuiop3472]

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[@RetroAmateur1989]

Glasstron, leader of the Optobots

[@lunarbeing4982]

This fucking comment

[@LGR]

* slow clap *

[@Slamraptor]

Well played man... well played

[@henryplayzgamez1615]

Is the Virtual-boy in the Optobots?

[@SuperXzm]

​@@henryplayzgamez1615 He's the fallen rookie, which Glasstron sworn to avenge...

[@wesleybcrowen]

This is the prettiest torture device I've ever seen.

[@dgeist4609]

You can add head tracking by using any 3rd party head tracker (eg. TrackIR). The headset actually does stereoscopic (3D) viewing too! There are two individual LCDs just like the more expensive models. Sony just disabled the feature on the cheaper models. You can still see the effect in the settings menu when you configure the alignment - each LCD will have a separate image. Enabling it requires a hardware hack to the controller box. Some of the better Glasstron models also have either an LCD or flippable shutter to enable see-through mode for augmented reality. Biggest downside compared to modern VR is the minimal field-of-view. Sony was WAAAAAY ahead of their time with these. Sony's HMD development continued in several variations throughout the 2000's and even included a PlayStation2 version - the PUD-J5A!

[@xanpq8374]

D Geist - Holy crap, really?? My uncle STILL has a pair of these things - I shall have to give that hack a go and see how it looks! I'm sure I can find instructions on how to do it somewhere. Thank you for commenting on this, man! I NEVER would've known those things could do all that WAY BACK THEN! This should be kinda fun :)

[@possiblyadickhead6653]

@@xanpq8374 sound like a lot of puking

[@maxpayne69.]

@@xanpq8374 Did you do it?

[@Jeff-ss6qt]

They seemed to have improved it even more with the PlayStation VR2 headset. Though, it lost the ability for augmented reality, they have adjustable IPD with the displays literally glued to the back of the lens housing. So, it's not just a large screen in the middle of the headset that IPD adjustment screws up.

[@The8BitGuy]

It's funny seeing those earbuds dangling.. it looks like you're wearing some kind of earrings!

[@elisttm]

oh hey it's the 8 bit guy nice

[@theothergtgeek9407]

100th like

[@frstwhsprs]

A wild David Murray appeared!

[@cosmokramer399]

He is a tech fashionista afterall

[@naxzed_it]

@@elisttm M'mkay.

[@DanielLearmouth]

My vision is augmented.

[@Ybalrid]

Deus Ex...

[@MazzSpaticus]

What a shame.

[@SecondOpinionMan]

I thought you were a GEP gun.

[@mysigt_]

+Afib4u isalie4us Ahemm, "I never asked for this."*

[@fountaincap]

Don't tell me you're going to wear that Glasstron during an Xbox operation.

[@anthonyorm]

Late 90's? damn, looks like its from about 2008

[@bikerboy3k]

My friend i played VR in a luna park in ROME back in 98 and in 2018 i still can't find a similarly good experience.

[@umm_rm]

Yeah i was like ... what

[@stechner]

I bought mine in the early 2000's

[@humphrex]

looks from 2100 lol

[@rafterman5072]

@@bikerboy3k It could be because you were using an expensive VR set up, as opposed to a commercial one. I also think you might be looking back through rose tinted glasses.

[@deadbrad]

I had some of those. they plugged into my handycam with night vision. I had full NV goggles in 2001!

[@a.j8307]

Some of these Oddware episodes make me feel nostalgia for something I'm seeing for the first time. How is that even possible,LGR?

[@SimonChristensen]

Ready to join the X-Men!

[@005AGIMA]

Wife: what movie are we watching? Me: I'm watching aliens. Wife: are we? Me: Yes, I am.

[@garfieldinheat664]

And also vomiting due to intense nausea

[@PanikGrafik]

Man, i just love Sony/tech stuff from the late 90's early 00's.. Something about the Sony switches, buttons etc makes me go crazy.

[@a.j8307]

He showed a Sony Wega in his gane collection video (for playing ps2 and GameCube). man, I had that same TV and loved it. one of the earliest flatscreens that really looked good, and it had awesome speakers like Clint mentioned. I also recently bought a pair of Sony earbuds for about 25$ and am super happy with them. Great, clear sound with a ton of range, surprisingly deep bass and it comes with different size earbuds and a button to play/pause and answer phone calls. I also love the color. basically Sony makes damn good products most of the time. The Beats earbuds were $130 and I doubt they sound that much better

[@LutherMasonVitaminL]

this was used in skateboard filming back in the day, specifically famously used in the filming of transworld's Modus operandi considered one of the best transworld parts. there was a large amount of night filming going on in this video and in order to see the shot in what would be considered a tv they could use the head display to see if they had the proper light to film the tricks. it saved them from filming a nights worth of skating to find out it was all unusable. it was packaged with some of sonys highest end vx cameras.

[@steviethunders]

Ty Evans has always tried to be at the forefront of camera tech to bring to skate videos. So sick that he used these!

[@Virtuoso23]

By the way, AVLS stands for Automatic Volume Limiter Setting, it limits the output to avoid "damage hearing" of users.

[@markhaus]

“These aren’t that bad” later “Ahh my eyes”

[@Larry]

I got an old pair of Vuzix's VR glasses for the PC, pain in the ass to set up, could only get DOOM 3 to play sort of correctly. and all the games that came with it were old 80s arcade game knock offs.

[@xRoot64]

Good to see Guru here, I'm subscribed to you for like a year now, unfortunately your channel isn't appearing in my sub feed, dang youtube.

[@Larry]

Amadeus Anderson YT is a pain, had YT unsub a load of people during the purge too, but I always announce new videos on Twitter and FB too if you want to follow me there!

[@xRoot64]

I'll do just that! Thanks!

[@Larry]

Amadeus Anderson no worries :)

[@rawr51919]

Larry Bundy Jr The Glasstron could work with certain video cards as well (remember the ones with composite/S-Video outputs)?

[@garyleigh]

I love your reviews. They always show... the bigger picture.

[@LGR]

Heh. Heh. You're really _displaying_ some fine pun skills there.

[@garyleigh]

That's in the eyes of the beholder.

[@jersydvl]

im just gonna sit here and ...monitor this conversation.

[@oxicemusic]

care to explain how you commented on this video before its upload date?

[@AdriftForWeeks]

+Rapping Adam Patreon donaters get earlier access to videos.

[@AlyxMSC]

Once again. An excellent thumbnail art.

[@LGR]

Thanks!

[@KaoruMzk]

So, I guess this was Sony's answer to the Virtual Boy lol

[@lefszycic]

Sony's answer to the R-zone

[@carlklitzke9455]

+Dick Hertz I used one of these back in the day, it worked pretty well for the time. Pretty great for watching movies laying down. Of course, 52 inch tvs are dirt cheap now anyway. Still neat, though.

[@HelenaOfDetroit]

Yea, but having a 52 inch TV mounted to your bedroom ceiling just looks strange

[@rawr51919]

FlipFlopGaming And they aren't portable like this thing...

[@GoldenKingStudio]

Wait... they made one that you could toggle to see through it? That is so 80's/90's cyberpunk!

[@randyjack9584]

PLM-100 has transmissive optics.

[@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

This is the most cyberpunk thing I've ever seen

[@UNSCPILOT]

If these were a new thing in that style I'd buy them in an instant. Preferably as an AR headset

[@elgoog-the-third]

In Switzerland, those were used at Expo.02 at the CyberHelvetia exposition.

[@Kacpa2]

Sony should remake them as a VR headset with same exact appearence :v

[@Randum_Gornutt]

Your channel continues to deliver on awesome retro reviews of stuff! KEEP IT UP!

[@jonnygotz2343]

Didn't you get this at Goodwill on a Thrifts episode

[@PenguinDT]

That seriously looks like something straight out of Cyberpunk 2020 chromebooks.

[@_chipchip]

Remember trying one of these at the Sony store. Can't believe you just found one!

[@jesselindsey9760]

>"Your eyes will literally explode if you use this" How did this ever get sent out onto store shelves?!

[@milesbailor5019]

Aperture science in a nutshell

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

It was 1999.

[@uiopuiop3472]

@@milesbailor5019 We do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead

[@MathiasRyuzaki]

I get so serious about LGR videos that I even bought some gourmet coffe blend to drink with it.

[@Featherogue]

you are the fucking cutest

[@SwankeyMonkey]

5:37 That "something on the screen" is the visual adjustment distance from your eyes to set it so you don't experience that cross-eyes/eye strain at 8:12

[@ThatHomestar]

I wonder how much more sick you would have gotten if you played an FPS like Halo.

[@dakerson1234]

That sure was painful....."surprisingly decent"

[@LGR]

I expect _a lot_ more discomfort.

[@jamiegwhite30]

I hate old ear buds like that, gave ya a Hasidic jew look for a sec when you took them out! lol

[@1blisslife]

+Lazy Game Reviews I remember some 8 years ago or so having the MyVu personal viewer solo's non iPod version(RCA connection), and they were light weight, but after a very short while they would make my eyes hurt like yours did! I was a bit disappointed, but I had always hoped for a pass through version. They eventually made them, but I'm surprised that they didn't really devaluate because they now cost as much as they were new back then almost.

[@andra4504]

connect it to a webcam or a small camera of some sorts, and BOOM! you have your own complicated cyberpunk glasses.

[@EposVox]

Neat!

[@racman9964]

Your channel is simply great! So sincere you speak about all this, so interesting and authenthic information. Good luck with the channel! Pure pleasure to watch!

[@jmalmsten]

the cross eyed eye strain feeling might be a result of it not having interocular distance adjustment... as in... setting the distance between the screens to match the distance of your eyes. Or does it have that adjustment?

[@LGR]

There is no adjustment for IPD or anything like that, no.

[@Dyexmax]

That is probably why they don't want "little people" (kids under 16) to use it. The eye strain from what you just said with the distance between your eyes not matching an adults.

[@zacharysheamills]

Apple announced the Apple vision pro yesterday. I genuinely thought LGR updated the thumbnail to look like it, but nope. This thing looks like a smaller Apple vision pro IRL.

[@Lavarinth]

I sit patiently waiting like you at the start of the video... to just hear the word "greetings" and make my day.

[@penorpie7224]

This video made me wanna play Burnout Revenge. Thumbs up for that.

[@jeffkeegan7682]

PenorPie papers Raya Wednesday night dawes the same time looking Sadsdds

[@TheEmeraldMenOfficial]

I used to love that game

[@maxpayne69.]

“Everything starts with a Ooh & Aah then later there’s the running & dying” Props to the Malcolm tee! 😍

[@LiquicitizenAntoine]

They look like the X-Ray Scanner from Perfect Dark! How fitting.

[@FHOM19]

I can't tell you how much I love these odd ware reviews keep up the good work

[@pipsta]

Looks like it came from ready player one.

[@UmeshABhat]

AVLS - "Auto Volume Levelling Something" - Classic LGR :)

[@ToolCraze]

I remember I wanted one back in the early 2000's really bad. Too expensive at the time though. good thing I didn't get one, my vision would probably be jacked up from using these

[@unfa00]

The AVLS thing is makes it impossible to make the volume louder than a given limit. I have an old Sony walkman with this function. It's not an auto-gain or dynamics compressor or limiter it's just that - limiting how loud you can make it.

[@rebeccaschade3987]

Automatic Volume Limiter System. You'd find it on Sony portable music players (discman, minidisc walkman etc) as well. Actually even on the PSP.

[@FurryMcMemes]

Vita had it as well.

[@SableRain]

I can imagine Clint walking around rocking that shirt and those glasses and playing the Jeff Goldblum laugh remix on an old school obnoxiously loud boom box. That would be a seriously awesome sight to see!

[@versnellingspookie]

What kind of tv is that Clint? It looks great!

[@LGR]

It's the same one I talked about here: a Sony KV-1311CR kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4XWlKl8ZpV9hpI

[@TonyGearSolid]

Digging that Alone in the Dark mini poster (or is it the actual game box?) in the background, I remember getting copy that came with part 2 for Christmas and the disc for the first game was missing. Needless to say, my 12 year old heart was broken.

[@Moonbeam143]

It kind of looks like Geordi La Forge's VISOR from "Star Trek". It's really neat.

[@mikelastname6469]

Oh! I remember this! I was playing with one of these in 1999 or 2000 in a Sony Store in Chicago. It was a really neat experience, plus, it looks awesome.

[@kevindahlke6042]

I love how it starts positive then gradually gets more and more negative

[@LateGameReviewer01]

Have you considered getting the virtual gear "vfx1". I remember playing dark forces 2 with it. With a puck in my hand and the helmet on my head...cool memories

[@RetroPowerUp]

3 hours auto shut off..... O.o I can't imagine using that for more than 3 minutes...

[@CrohnieKat]

I was just rewatching the thrift episode where you got this! im so glad you finally did an oddware on it.

[@praveensharma9893]

slogan be like "Hey, kid! Wanna go blind? That rocks!"

[@runabout76]

The earbuds look like the Sony Fontopia series that used to come with Discmans and stuff. They are very comfortable with foamy bits on them. I have a pair that sound amazing.

[@raefinoh1172]

LGR where did you get that shirt i love Jeff Goldblum

[@Jopes17]

I just watched the Thrifts video where you found this, and now you're doing a review of it!

[@VaporZone]

Did you try them without your glasses to see if the eye-strain was still a thing?

[@LGR]

Yes. It was worse.

[@VaporZone]

Thanks for the response. I'll change my mind about buying one. I never knew it existed until your Thrift Episode showing it. I wanted one, now that you reviewed it, I don't want it anymore. If you took a bit longer to review it, I might have it today but it's a bad choice. These kinds of peripherals are hard to get a good one that is easy to get accustomed to.

[@TheMC1X]

Clint! As son as you reviewed this headset, why not take a look to the HMZ-T1? It's like an improved Glasstron, and it's the initial concept behind the HMZ-T3W and even the PSVR

[@LGR]

I don't have one. Feel free to hook me up ;)

[@TheMC1X]

Lazy Game Reviews I don't even have one. I wanted one back in the day lol, but I guess you have more ease to get one on your hands :P. Thanks for the reply!

[@MarkSimonelli]

Sony is great for making beautiful obsolete electronics. I keep my old mini disc player around for just that reason.😎

[@xanpq8374]

The design of that HMD is the 90's-est 90's thing that ever 90's'ed from the 90's. Great example of a 90's-ish impression of a "futuristic" aesthetic (well, back then, anyway - today they practically ooze with the era they came from :D) .

[@foul]

Hello LGR! I was watching some of your videos where you build really old PC's, and going through some of my own computer "junk" I have found a single core Athlon 64 3200+. I have its motherboard, memories, a xfx 8800 gt, basically just missing a hard drive a power supply and a case. Before I go through with buying all of these and maybe a better video card as well, I want to know something from you. What can I do with it? I thought of maybe making a dedicated XP machine to play old games, but it can run games up to what year exactly?

[@ClayMann]

I have working older computers and I use mine to take up too much space in a cupboard.

[@AgentFSB]

I have an Athlon 64 3200+ that runs Windows 10 hehe.

[@cyrillobaggins8789]

the xfx 8800 gt doesn't support DirectX 11 so you won't be able games that don't have DirectX 10 support. I have an Ahtlon 64 3200+ and use it as a Windows98 retro machine.

[@CrayPlaySwe]

Man that's old. Like 2004 era?

[@CrayPlaySwe]

mike jones That's a dual core cpu.

[@Tecnolock]

I had a set of these back in the day and loved them. Played Metroid Prime on Gamecube with them and could not think of a better way to play the game. For those of you not familiar with Metroid Prime, you played the game looking through Samus's visor. The first time I walked through a foggy room and moisture condensed on Samus's lens I was completely blown away.

[@Tecnolock]

An additional note. I used these in a blacked out room with 4.1 surround sound. With a dark room it's a lot easier to get absorbed into the experience and avoid things like motion sickness.

[@WorldWendell]

How the hell did you get a Playstation VR early?

[@WorldWendell]

Im super jealous...

[@00Skyfox]

Is there no adjustment for pupillary distance so the screens match your eyes better and prevent being crosseyed?

[@LGR]

Unfortunately not, not that I recall anyway

[@KayoMichiels]

You could make a VR headset of it if you add trackir to it..

[@aidanmco]

First Name Last Name It technically has two screens, so it has the capability to be 3d!

[@DiThi]

Only one input, though. And adding head tracking wouldn't be enough for VR. Low FOV, low framerate, high latency (even if it's unnoticeable for LGR it's probably still to high), high persistence (dizzying blur when moving the head), small lens sweet spot, etc, etc...

[@EDJRMorpheus95]

um, Hi LGR. I enjoy the wonderful adventures of the 90's, look at the old footage of old PC DOS games, and test out amazing 90's products.

[@SLIMKUTT]

"AVLS=Automatic Volume Limiter System"...like described in my Sony MD-manual^^

[@danieldaniels7571]

SLIMKUTT I had Sony Walkman cassette plsyers with that feature too

[@aaront8]

I wanted these things SOOOOOO bad when they first came out. I remember putting them on and thinking holy crap, it's a movie theater in my face! Awesome find!

[@Tarodenaro]

Oh god; This is the exact same glasses featured on... Cyclops-senpai video. part of me died laughing lol. E M U R A T E D )))))))))

[@TubeWave]

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[@NeutronicalGaming]

@ 4:16 sony's AVLS was a prepriatary blend of 23 herbs and spices that auto levels the output audio by adjusting all the gains in frequency ( atleast i asusme, by how it sounds ) when a track would wotherwise distort or become hissy or noisey, i have it in one of my older cd players and it really works ok honestly, it's nothing like a 24 bit true audio or flac with proper boost but it does the job.

[@andresbravo2003]

Who would it thought that this was made before Apple Vision Pro…

[@samdurian2112]

Welcome to 2024

[@SailorDrew]

They do look freaking cool! The video thumbnail was super cool looking, haha. :D I figure the more mainstream the VR headsets get, the flashier they'll get.

[@Whorifice]

Quite unusual that this was built as a portable media solution, yet it requires either an A/V or S-Video, I can't imagine there was anything other than a video camera that could actually drive these and still remain "portable" in the 1990's.

[@LGR]

Well, it was more portable than a CRT TV at least! But yeah not the most practical.

[@rawr51919]

Lazy Game Reviews It looks badass though... It makes me wanna get one of those...

[@KarlBaron]

Sony had portable Video8 players (to go with their portable TVs, sometimes they were even built-in), and here in Japan they even sold pre-recorded Video8 tapes with movies on them. Techmoan did a video on it.

[@kenjeknowsbest]

Noticing "Might and Magic" on your background shelf I wanted to ask wether you are planning to maybe do a short info series on it? I have fond memories of me playing Clouds of Xeen as a child. It's one of the first video games I played on a computer and nowadays most people only know the strategy series.

[@rootbrian4815]

The health warnings apply to most smartphone screen's: Eye damage!!! xD

[@CeeStyleDj]

I remember Pondering about these when I was younger. I always thought they were marketed as your own personal movie theater. I didn't even think to use games lol. I always thought it was touted more as a personal theater versus something VR because people weren't really talking about VR that much back then. And with Sony being a consumer electronics company - It seems the main use was to either watch movies or TV.

[@BrokenSet]

This is probably the wrong place to make suggestions, but there really isn't another place to do it, so here goes. I want an episode on eGames. Anyone remember eGames from the 90s-Early 2000s? I'm currently having a nostalgia binge on their software.

[@LGR]

eGames would be a fascinating episode, and I'm also considering one about ValuSoft.

[@Dirlo432]

+Lazy Game Reviews the e games fishing water dragon scared the shit out of me when i was a kid

[@WedgeBob]

Wouldn't mind seeing some Post-Sierra Hoyle games, either, because I know ever since Sierra/Vivendi dissolved, Hoyle certainly has lost a lot of its old character with their PC/Mac games.

[@WillowFox]

You can pop the earbuds in next to the lenses there, in those slots, it holds them firmly and if you turn up the volume you can hear them just fine. I had an older set from 1995, of Virtual I/O display glasses, I had those with a 12v battery from a set of emergency lights, bypassed the power supply inside my Playstation, and used one battery to power the display and the unit, kept it in the playstation carry case, so i could start it n play Tomb Raider on the train to Boston, it was an hour trip so i was happy with it. I was the first, and probably the ONLY kid with a portable playstation, and a head's up display ever. very cyberpunk indeed.

[@woongcho6238]

Who’s watching this after the release of the vision pro? 👇

[@SwankeyMonkey]

I still have this. I bought it to go with my Dreamcast custom carrying case for Dreamcast play-on-the-go some 15 years ago. I haven't used it in years, because I remember it was somewhat grainy in resolution compared to today's standards, though I remember when it first came out that it was pretty incredible- feeling like it projected a 60 inch 4:3 screen about 5 feet away. I felt at the time the Glasstron was the best way for Dreamcast personal play. And it looked better than some of the other glasses-displays at the time, with its futuristic Tron like appearance. Definitely drew a lot of questions, and friends wanting to try it out.

[@ScowlieMeerkat]

VR: Not JUST a pointless waste of lots of money; it ALSO retroactively makes cool old gadgets worse.

[@laurasullivan77]

Vr has actual uses and can play a variety of great games impossible on other devices

[@AmyraCarter]

Sounds like something I'd go ahead and grab even if just for a conversation piece.

[@whiteyquartz3409]

The earpieces go into your ears.....for sound.

[@brennalynnn]

2:05

[@danielberrett2179]

You mentioned near the beginning there are actually 2 separate lcd's. Though it is not the intended function, I wonder if it could be modified for 3D at the least(not VR)

[@Magnetorheological]

For when you want to be cooler than JC Denton.

[@BeyondTheZenith]

What a deal!

[@foxrivers]

Wow I used to want a pair of these so bad in the early 2000s. Even tried to find some that needed repair and still were too expensive. Thanks for the video!

[@eddylebreton9544]

Using a Sony object with the original Xbox seems very VERY weird.

[@toymachine4253]

eddy lebreton I would have expected a PlayStation One or Two.

[@DementedDistraction]

I think that at the time these were released the experience would've been pretty mindblowing, especially considering CRTs were the norm in the late 90s - unless you had one of the old giant front projector 'box' TVs.

[@AmayirotAkago]

Love the Jeff Goldblum shirt :D

[@turbog00n]

I had a pair of these when I was in the air force in the late 90s. I went on a lot deployments where we couldn't bring tvs, or even had room for tvs in our quarters. Video games and movies are nice when deployed in remote areas.

[@Furthermore26]

I wonder when the channel will get back to reviewing many of the good old DOS games you've amassed over the years. These days it seems to be all about oddware, techtales, building stuff, thrifting, and the sims. Basically all but reviewing the old DOS games. The reviews that are coming are newer games. The last older game which was reviewed was over 2 months ago, and a month before that to find another. Has the scope of this channel really permanently changed so much?

[@LGR]

As Zabeus posted already, this channel has never been just about old DOS games. This has been a variety channel from day one. Go all the way back to when I started in 2006 and you'll see that I've covered a variety of random things from week to week, it all depends on what I'm into at the time. Heck, I didn't even start covering DOS games until this channel had been around for _three years._ That being said, there's already another DOS game video posted on Patreon, watchable right this moment. That video will go public in the coming weeks, and there are plenty more coming in the future as I see fit. If the state of things still really bothers you, you are free to go watch other things and come back when I have something more to your liking :)

[@billlumburgh8272]

I think Oddware is one of the more enjoyable LGR features. But I do agree, DOS games, classic PC games and weird unknown odd games definately add the most to the this channel.

[@lolallday08]

+Lazy Game Reviews Lol forget them. Thanks for finding this interesting piece. Hope you come out with more of whatever inspires you. I know it'll be good.

[@shoraz]

+Dany B I actually subscribed for LGR thrift. in a way LGR got me into thrifting it's like a scavenger hunt

[@Furthermore26]

Lazy Game Reviews So your answer is basically if you don't like it, fuck off? That's interesting. I've been here for a long time now, and yes the channel might have been a variety channel, but it's how you got big, no? I would think so anyway. Plus your old games are in every single episode of yours (or almost?). It's what you built your channel on. Or am I wrong, and everyone else but me just came for the sims? As for pinball, ok fair enough I missed that one while making my point, but looking back, it'll go back over 2 months where in the meantime there's everything but old game reviews. I just feel like the channel has taken a turn for the weird, where you put up videos of some duke nukem faceswap and other odd things. Maybe the majority likes that, and I'm just going against the grain, I don't know. Perhaps it's just wishful thinking, but I always thought the main focus of the channel was game reviews (as you have stated in a couple of very old Q&A's I remember watching). Ah well, I still enjoy some of the content, so I guess I'll stick around for now, and just continue not watching the stuff I don't really like. I just figured I'd take a shot and ask. No harm in that, right.

[@bongopog6879]

Wow I'm early! Nice video, always love watching them.