Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has offered his thoughts on Nintendo's Virtual Boy in an Ask Me Anything on Reddit. However, according to Luckey it doesn't count as a VR system at all.
The Virtual Boy offered "no head tracking, low field of view, and was essentially a monochrome 3DTV." Luckey said that the system's failure was a "real shame, too, because the association of the Virtual Boy with VR hurt the industry in the long run."
The Virtual Boy was ambitious but it was a downright failure. Time magazine listed the Virtual Boy as one of the worst inventions ever.
Whilst Oculus and its competitors work on virtual reality, Microsoft are instead working on the HoloLens (augmented reality), and Nintendo doesn't seem interested in virtual reality.
At E3 2015 Nintendo of America's president Reggie Fils-Aime said "What we believe is that, in order for this technology to move forward, you need to make it fun and you need to make it social," he said, before adding that "based on what I've seen to date, it's not fun, and it's not social. It's just tech."
The interest with virtual reality has definitely increased, largely due to Oculus and its competitors (PlayStation VR and HTC Vive to name the two biggest challengers for the VR throne). Maybe, just maybe, virtual reality will win people over and hopefully will be sticking around.
For more on virtual reality and the recent pricing announcements, head over to Has the VR revolution stalled before it started?
Thanks, Polygon.