Wait. There's a huge gulf between Bolas' viewer (http://projects.ict.usc.edu/mxr/diy/fov2go-viewer/) and the Oculus Rift. One's a cute little DIY project. The other is a substantial piece of technology -- one that seems to build more on virtual reality helmet concepts from the 1980s and 1990s than on Bolas' project. Bolas might have inspired them to go down this path and explore VR hardware, but isn't that what teachers are supposed to do?
Exactly! I've build that prototype and I can tell you it's not very useful. Palmer started working on his own HMD (occulus) because he saw how limiting that research prototype was. Impossibly poor FOV, poor response and poor head tracking. But beyond that, I was led to understand he has one of the largest personal collections of VR headsets and has been into it as a hobby for a long time. This whole article is garbage.
