And not just any red, the exact same red as the Virtual Boy. Like, not $4.99, $5 even.Īnd I’m not kidding when I say I went to the store and there were a few colors to choose from and I noticed one of them was red. It was also insanely cheap – the cardboard one from Best Buy was $9.99 originally, this one from Walmart was $5.00. This newer one I got from Walmart was a more elaborate headset and it also had a head strap, which the other one sorely lacked. I had previously bought a literal cardboard viewer from Best Buy which was great and worked but it didn’t have any way to strap itself to your head, and the Quake 1 VR port required use of a game controller. As I mentioned, at some point just to experience the VR port I found correctly, I bought an inexpensive VR viewer. So, I had this idea at some point during the Quake 1 iOS port. Virtual Boy emulator for iOS using Google CardboardĮffectively, I took an existing emulator for iOS called Provenance that used code from the Mednafen emulator, which includes a Virtual Boy component, and got a pared down version working with Google’s Cardboard SDK In a side project, I have made a Virtual Boy emulator run on iOS using using the Google Cardboard to allow the end user to use an inexpensive VR viewer to play the games with the 3D effect they were designed for.

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