Ono-Sendai
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| Ono-Sendai Corporation | ||||
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| Founded: 1991[1] | ||||
| Defunct: 1993-10[2] | ||||
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Ono-Sendai Corp. was an American virtual reality hardware developer notable for being contracted by Sega of America to produce the unreleased Sega Mega Drive virtual reality headset Sega VR.[1] Named for the fictional corporation from the 1984 William Gibson cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, Ono-Sendai was the world's first consumer-oriented virtual reality company.[4][5]
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Company
Founded by virtual reality entrepreneur Mark Pesce in 1991, and officially incorporated on January 8, 1992[3], Ono-Sendai was one of the first generation of virtual reality companies to explore the new medium[1], as well as the very first to design and develop products intended for an inexpensive personal consumer market (as opposed to industrial and corporate use.)[4][5]
Sega VR
- Main article: Sega VR.
Production history
- Sega VR (Mega Drive; unreleased) — Developed, manufactured by
Promotional material
A promotional feature published in MONDO 2000, issue 7.[6]
Logos
Ono-Sendai's logo.
Ono-Sendai's alternate logo.
External links
- Learning from History: How to make VR bigger than the Web article by Mark Pesce at Medium
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://medium.com/ghvr/tc-shanghai-2016-8ad6c097262d
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Interview: Bandit (2006-07-25) by Sega-16
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 https://www.cabusinessdb.com/company/1521743/
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://spectrum.ieee.org/sense-and-sensoribility
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://cfccreates.com/collaborators/111
- ↑ https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Famicoman/102006454056866351