almost any device<\/a> on a giant virtual screen via a specially-purchased capture card. Meanwhile, last year, Palmer Luckey-backed ModRetro released the Chromatic handheld for playing classic Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges, as well as a small collection of newly published Chromatic cartridges, including a new version of Tetris. At the time of the ModRetro Chromatic’s debut late last year, though, we couldn’t get its “USB-C lagless video out to PC” feature to work with Quest HDMI Link.<\/p>\nNow, after playing GTA 2 displayed on my ceiling while holding the Chromatic in my hands, I can see that’s changed.<\/p>\n
Imagine a pair of Pokemon-loving friends finishing a day-long climb up a tall icy mountain. They cozy up next to one another in big thick sleeping bags warming up inside their two-person tent. One friend pulls out their Chromatic, with a copy of Pokemon Gold, and their friend does the same with Pokemon Silver. They each put on their Horizon OS headsets and run a Link cable between the sleeping bags.<\/p>\n
Their hands are warm under the covers and not a soul alive can see the light produced from the Chromatic screens in their hands. Over a Link cable made last century, they trade Pokemon between their cartridges and fight a daily battle they’ve waged for years. In essence, the pair would share a virtual reality universe made for exactly two people, and their Pokemon, shared over that Link cable. They find a single reality inside those cartridges which they view on a pair of giant virtual screens in the air of the pitch-black tent.<\/p>\n
In that scenario with a friend on a mountain, the wind whipping at it in this truly off grid scenario, what Game Boy or Game Boy Color game would you want to play as you warm up in VR?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Boy and Game Boy Color cartridges running inside a Chromatic gaming handheld from ModRetro now display in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-16858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-technology","9":"tag-united-states","10":"tag-unitedstates","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-virtual-reality","13":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}