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Project History Article - https://insight.ieeeusa.org/articles/your-engineering-heritage-the-long-road-to-consumer-virtual-reality-part-ii/ OR THIS LINK
Under contract to Hasbro Toys, QuantumWorks Corporation (QWC) founder, S.E.Tice, Turner Whitted and Chris Gentile executive managed the project for Hasbro (they were affectionately referred to "the RAT Patrol", or Risk Abatement Team). QWC's founder co-designed and co-led the development of the first new generation VR helmet based 3D consumer game system, under various internal code and potential product names TOASTER, X-Scape, RUSH with the other 2 "RAT Patrol" executive team and the first ten 3D immersive games. Because little prior art existed in implementing real-time 3D VR for optimal user gaming experience, and most gaming companies employed were mainly experienced in 2D games and very limited 3D gaming, so QWC had to take what it learned form past Aerospace engineering real-time 3D and VR applications, to apply to this new entertainment set of applications and create a new set of "VR experiential rules and guidelines" - these evolved as the game prototypes were tested on Silicon Graphics (SGI) workstation hardware. Here is a picture of a foam mockup of a potential production system and some test ads done under various test product names X-Scape ad, RUSH ad#1, RUSH ad#2 ) QWC founders led the game development in producing 12 prototype SGI based games. Derivatives of these games made their way to Disney Quest LBE attractions. The QWC founders also managed the peripherals design requirements effort.
Patents - there were many issued, this is only one of the many patented inventions created for the Hasbro TOASTER project - this one was created by S.E. Tice of QuantumWorks Corporation, patented and assigned to Hasbro.
"Method of Input Selection in an Electronic Game System" - click here to view the .pdf of the patent
Patent Number: 5,603,507 Date of Patent: Feb. 18, 1997
Three Focus Group Product Ads
"Xscape" - https://youtu.be/DxCzX43t_DQ
"RUSH #1 - https://youtu.be/vcQ59pHL0ao
RUSH #2 - https://youtu.be/jgB-ONvnKZ4