The VR project was never to see the light of day.  Virtuality Inc. were the company Atari hooked up with to produce an ambitious plan for a home VR headset at under $300.00.  The unit was in development for over 2 years, and as Jaguar sales diminished, the VR unit was shelved.

Prototypes shown at the CES were actually running from a Virtuality PC system under the show-booth!  One game had been programmed with VR capabilities, and that was Missile Command 2000.

The lightweight headset was fully adjustable and was padded inside for maximum comfort.  Inside the unit, a 7" colour TFT LCD screen provided the players view, with a resolution of 260 by 400 pixels.  A built-in microphone allowed players to communicate for planned networked gaming, and sound was provided through the headset via stereo speakers.

A custom optical system projected a binocular image to both eyes; which is aligned at infinity, so focus adjustment was not needed.  Two degrees of freedom (left/right and up/down) were available and a field of view of 52 degrees horizontal by 40 degrees vertical.

The tracking station senses the position of the controller and the headset via an infra-red tracking system (called "V-Trak" by Virtuality Inc).  The Jaguar VR tracking speed is 250Hz, with a lag time faster than Virtuality's own arcade hardware of the time!  The tracker has a range of approximately 100 degrees and multiple trackers can be daisy-chained together to provide a full 360° tracking area if required.