Sony is heading towards making the Amiga dream a reality. 3D headset prototype showcased at CES 2011, reportably already working with Gran Turismo 5:
A comment posted by me three and a half years ago (but you can find many earlier references):
(Amiga headset): "hopefully some day we'll see something like this for the Playstation 3:
A history lesson here on VGChartz:
"At the time there was an Amiga based system using virtual realtiy together with head tracking and handtracking (you could duck, lean your hand out around a pillar to shoot, jump, etc). Albeit the 3D graphics at the time were horrible for today's standards a lot of neat ideas were introduced back then.
One of the games was called Dactyl Nightmare, a 3D FPS from before ID Software became famous for its not as advanced Wolfenstein3D game. The game allowed for 4 players to play deathmatch and co-op 'capture the flag' matches over a network. Players could communicate through the built-in microphone. The headset allowed for a stereoscopic 3D view of the environment using shutter technology (unlike Wolfenstein3D actually with different hight levels).
In another game you could for instance sword fight with other people.
Some quotes and more info:
"Looking at the joy-stick through the visor it appears as a gun. Extending one's arm shows a virtual arm rendered in bright pink polygons."
"http://www.hitl.washington.edu/scivw/scivw-ftp/commercial/WIndustries/W.descrip
http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=103674
