Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. VirtualFriend is free and simple (and available for iPhones, too). VirtualFriend is free and simple (and ...

Virtual reality may be all the rage today, but Nintendo tried to jump start the space more than 20 years ago with the launch of a portable VR game system called the Virtual Boy. It was discontinued ...

The Virtual Boy is considered Nintendo's biggest failure. Numerous factors contributed to the failure of the 3D game console: the high price, misleading marketing, poor ergonomics, and, finally, the ...

Here at Ars, we’re big fans of classic console emulators that go beyond providing perfect re-creations to those that actually improve on original hardware with new features we could only dream of as ...

Now you can recreate the experience of using the world's worst commercial gaming VR headset with the best one. Nintendo's Virtual Boy, a standalone headset console released in 1995, is notorious for ...

In early 1995, I remember reading a letter in a video game magazine that talked about how much momentum Nintendo had with the upcoming Ultra 64 console and the futuristic Virtual Boy. When it launched ...

Virtual reality might not have quite taken over in the way some predict it will, but there is no denying that it’s come a long way in a short space of time. Case in point? Comparing the Virtual Boy, ...

Even though Nintendo’s Virtual Boy virtual reality concept failed to take off despite being a pioneer in the virtual reality space, it can still be of some use to gamers who love to experiment with ...