Gav films Nintendo's 1995 attempt at a 3D game console, the Virtual Boy at surprisingly fast speeds to learn how it works. Check out our new Patreon! - https://www.patreon.com/theslowmoguys
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Filmed on the Phantom TMX7510
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Top Comments
@smagliaro
Never in a million years would I have guessed that single columns of LEDs and oscillating mirrors were how this thing worked. Honestly super impressive!
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@jerielminguillan5213
5:04 the best part is that he does the take dead serious.
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@Hulk616
8:50 Thanks for the USB sounds, Gav. Nearly went insane hunting for what was broken on my rig.
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@sebbes333
*@The Slow Mo Guys*
4:35 I think the reason for alternating mirror movements, is to cancel out each others rotational velocity.
If they were synced up, the headset would vibrate CRAZY much.
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@Darx97
i had no idea this thing was so complex
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@TechyCr
5:06 Must've been the wind.
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@gibsonfan06
5:06 Now that's a regulation product placement if I've ever seen one
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@cogee89
5:06 I love when companies use subtle product placement to promote their merch.
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@GoreTorn16
I still have my Virtual Boy with 7 games! It is still my favorite console because of one special thing, I am 100% blind in my left eye due to the very rare Coats Disease (this happened when I was 8, long before I ever started gaming). Why does that matter you ask? Well, all I have to do is move the visual slider all the way to right and BOOM! No visual nausea, no eyestrain, all in glorious 64 bit w/surround sound. Kind of like a high resolution Gameboy screen. Wario Land, Galactic Pinball and Teleroboxer are among my favorites!
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@jonoghue
8:00 Having LEDs illuminated for longer or shorter periods of time to make the pixel "brighter" is called "Pulse width modulation" and is standard practice with LEDs. LEDs run at a specific voltage and to "dim" one you can't just reduce the voltage, so instead they are switched on and off faster than the eye can detect, and to make the light dimmer you increase the amount of time the LED is off.
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@RealTravisMock
5:06 I don’t know what these large cups are, but man, I want to look into it further now that I’ve seen it completely out of context.
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@GruntHumor
That's the "posture destroyer 5,000" lol
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@StOoPiDU
Thank god you got that product in there. Andrew can't be mad now.
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@pazz
4:48 "The Mirror of the Dark Eye" is a dope title for a fatasy novel.
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@DeviantOllam
I know that the Virtual Boy wasn't a huge success, but the fact that Nintendo was able to drive pixels at this insane rate with only 1995 processing power really blows my mind.
And the fact that you captured this the way you did is utterly amazing. 🤩