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Sony was one of the top companies and they was making very good technology, good quality and that. They made their first real HD TV in the 80s as a CRT TV so if you think those CRT HDTVs from 2000s was the first HD TVs you are wrong lmao.
I used to do IT for dental offices and we had one client that had much newer versions of this so patients could watch movies while getting their teeth cleaned. It made the screen look like a 50 foot movie screen, and being before the days of OLEDs and tiny monitors, I could just not wrap my head around how much fidelity came out of those tiny LCDs.
Pretty cool but I imagine sanitizing it is a headache.. its underrated how much dentists splash your saliva all over your face. Knew a dentist that tried using headphones for the patients, but stopped for this reason.
Honestly back in the 90s these were GENIUS, with how big and bulky TVs were back then, these were the perfect option for people who didnt have a ton of space.
Funny enough, i'm planning on getting a PSVR2 and i'll still totally use it exactly like that for non-VR games from time to time. Using a VR headset nowadays as a main screen is a totally legitimate use case, that thing was so far ahead.
I mean even if you did have the space, it's also a matter of sheer man power to move it, I mean he said these glasses look like a 50 inch tv, a crt that big would be like 300+ pounds, and even then most crt TVs never went quite that big anyways
That's actually crazy impressive considering we are watching it through a phone camera ziptied onto a piece of glass and then compressed on CZcams. It's got to look great in person which is genuinely amazing feat for the time.
Honestly these would’ve been awesome when I was a kid, for some reason my dad put the tv really high on my room so playing anything would hurt my neck for staying too long in the same position
Back in my day we bought something then just plugged it in and used it til it died and didn't have to sign into any subscription service or download an update or log on to verify your not pirating the software etc. Uphill both ways !
Yeah no obsolete stuff to worry about. AV cables are still all the rage (Nobody tell them that AV cables are obsolete unless you actively keep all your cables 👀)
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With a quick inflation calc of $500 in 1998 to today they would have been a little under $1000 Still a lot of money, but only a third of the apple thing
I don't know how I stumbled onto this but the enthusiasm is so palpable, I LOVE IT. I can't help but feel your excitement. Thanks for sharing this, man.
im glad you added in those dreamcast noises, instantly brought me back to the times playing ps2 and gamecube hearing those disc drives spin up. thank you for that.
wonder if its jailbroken if it would be able to. but seems liek rooting and jailbreaking wants have been going down, peaople nolonger care their devices control them instead them controling thier device.
I was in the navy back in early 2000s. I had a top rack with lots of overhead room. I actually bought these and ziptied a PS1 and eventually a PS2 into the overhead and ran an extension cord around the corner to a convenient ceiling height power plug. On long deployments when there was no training or drills i could just lay in my rack, put these on, and play any PS1 game and eventually watch any DVD i wanted to, any time I wanted to. Was so good. Worth every penny.
The reason they said not to drive with it is that some glasstron models had a flip up button that allowed tou to see through the screens - you could literally walk around and see the display and see whats around you. Pair this with an old portable (non display) dvd player and those 'camcorder' batteries you mentioned and you have a completely wireless (power source) personal dvd display and walk around.
This may be your most extraordinary work, sir. 5:01 On zip-ties - “These are a bit too short, but it’s ok, you can join them together. You make like a team, right? Undefeatable team.” Simply remarkable.
there are glasses like this that are made nowadays that you just plug any hdmi device into and it just projects a floating screen over your vision or it has a cover you can put on the outside that blocks the light to make it basically the same as these, xreal is the only brand i know off the top of my head but there are other brands too
That's how all glorious CD/dvd readers sound, the sound of nostalgia, how having a blast playing split screen classics like motorstorm with my mates, man
now that's a mad beast right there you know it's crazy when it has "tron" in its name back when companies would experiment with different things and actually go all the way in quality when they feel confident
@@miaugato93 sony just named all of their patentable display technologies some variety of tron(trinitron, indextron, jumbotron, visortron, glasstron, plasmatron) for a while, they originally copied the naming pattern from chromatron which came from ernest lawrence naming all of his inventions some kind of -tron(cyclotron, chromatron, calutron,...)
WOW! This just brought back some memories. My childhood dentist had one of these so you could watch movies while he was working one your teeth, so you wouldn't be scared by the visuals and noise of the dentist office. Man... I never though I would ever see this again, thank you for showing us. I have a core memory of watching Finding Nemo while he worked. Even to this day, he was best dentist I've ever had. He was so gentle, kind and soft spoken, true professional.
I liked going to the dentist because they had two little arcade cabs with consoles stuck in them. First had Ridge Racer V then PGR4 when I guess the PS2 had died or whatever. Either way pretty kino choices. Just IMAGINE if going to the dentist meant you were catapulted 20 years into the future of VR, except stuff didn't suck. Would have had the pearliest whites you ever saw.
That is actually such a profound statement. It's like if you could tell your young self what the future was like, they would say "that sounds AMAZING!" and you'd be like, "yeah... but, naahhh.."
I bought a pair of Vuzix Vision Pro 900 glasses way back in 2011 to make a functioning AR HUD monocle for a Ghost Recon Future Soldier cosplay and honestly these look just as good as those did, and those things came out nearly 10 years after these things did.
I love this man, I just simply cannot find this energy anywhere else on the internet. Nothing will ever get between a man and his niche retro media device that he recently bought and has been unsure if it functions properly or not. #relatable!
Sony made so much cool stuff and don't really get enough credit for how innovative they are. Glasstron is basically a very early HMD and Sony made one about 10 years later also called the HMZ-T1 and both of them were fantastic quality for their times, like your own persona cinema display. In addition to that Sony also invented the 3.5' floppy disk, co-invented the CD and SACD, invented memory stick duo, the SPDIF connector, LDAC bluetooth codec, invented portable music with the Walkman and Discman, invented Blu-Ray, had the first super thin laptops (VAIO) way before the Macbook Air came out, the first OLED TV (XEL-1), Triluminous display tech (which Samsung later stole for their QLED TVs), the best CRTs in the industry (Trinitron), the first OLED gaming handheld (Vita), the most popular game console of all time (PS2), the first handhelds that could play movies at high quality (PSP UMDs), water resistant phones, phones with 1 inch camera sensors, 21:9 aspect ratio phones before anyone else (Xperia), popularized mirrorless cameras (Alpha), beat Bose at wireless NC headphones, etc and to top it all of they made robotic dogs too (AIBO) Sony is really one of the GOAT tech companies
Also some of the best color accurate displays ever, not to mention sound systems and killer home theaters (especially for the prices). It's a damn shame that nowadays playstation is what carried them the most because I wish they could invest in bringing out more crazy and innovative stuff.
I had some of these in like '99. Got given them by a friends uncle along with a Sega Genesis. I remember taking a trip from Austin, TX to Las Vegas that year. Sitting in the back of mom's van, being motion sick as hell while playing Sonic 3.
1:00 very informative thank you for clearing that up I was beginning to think some sort of implant was going to be needed. And for some reason it didn't freak out when I tried to pause this time.
"to top it off... we're plugging into a Dreamcast." that was the most random ass thing I saw in a while. thanks Wade. the Cast of Dreams is one of the noisiest nuggets I know. that's why I love it so much.
Being able to run off a a camcorder battery makes a lot of sense because i bet this thing is using the guts of a couple of digital viewfinders from a handycam or something.
When I saw this in suggested videos, I misread "GLASSTRON" as "GLASSTROPOD". Now I'm imagining DankPods reviewing a shiny nugget like this that's shaped like a big slug and I love it
There were actually a few models of these over the years, the last models released from 1997 onwards actually had a "see through" mode using LCD Shutters. Just like the apple vision pro, Absolutely mind boggling considering the tech came out over 25 years ago!
Not mind-boggling, just shows the massive deceit these companies use. You have to pay more because we don't know if our newly created tech will sell. Meanwhile it's been selling for like 35y
@Yngdady Creator of Dragon Ball, character designer for Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest, among other things. He died about a week ago, news just came out today.
You know what, gimme a modern version of this with with headphones I can change and it would beat VR for me any day. Like the ultimate dorm room device.
@@Schnort But I don't want VR, I just want a cheap screen to strap to my face and watch stuff on. All the other extra stuff makes it more expensive with stuff I don't want to use.
Depending on how cheap is cheap in this scenario there are some, I've got some first gen Xreal (formerly Nreal) Air glasses that work really well and go for around 300 USD, though they need a separate adapter for anything that doesn't have DisplayPort over USB C. Can't change the headphones attached to it (which work like the sunglasses shown off a few years back with tiny speakers pointed at the ears) but can obviously use Bluetooth phones if the video device supports it
@@DerpyLaronSurprisingly enough a standalone headset is in the same price league as something like this. Thank Meta for subsidizing their headsets. That's how they sold more Quest 2s than Xbox series X consoles
This is weirdly the culmination of a childhood dream. My friend told me that SEGA had a headset like this and back in the day we went trying to find it at SEGA World in the Trocadero centre. Now while the SEGA headset never was publicly released, it seems Sony had other ideas. Never seen or heard of the glasstron before, but now I'm filled with an urge to procure one if only to sit there and play my old consoles, and hopefully close the loop on an unfulfilled childhood dream.
@@redpheonix1000 copied from @dodecahedron1 above "sony just named all of their patentable display technologies some variety of tron(trinitron, indextron, jumbotron, visortron, glasstron, plasmatron) for a while, they originally copied the naming pattern from chromatron which came from ernest lawrence naming all of his inventions some kind of -tron(cyclotron, chromatron, calutron,...)"
@dankpods - you're only touching the tip of the iceberg. The PLM-S700 was a true stereoscopic XVGA (two lcds the size of dimes), with a (third) LCD shutter that allowed 100% opaque or 90% translucent view of the ambient environment. There was even a head tracking module. The tech was extremely amazing by even modern standards and the head clip made it very comfortable to wear. I sold mine for 2x what I paid for it when I needed to pay bills, hope it's still around and in some use. Thanks for the throw back.
In 1998, I was a junior in high school and getting suspended for 10 days for hacking the school's computers including the principal, dean, guidance counselor, 15 teachers, and the email server. The next year, my senior year, they put me in charge of the web server to build the school's first website. True story.
@@shoeliver Having the high school experience of managing a website helped land me my first real job at the American Online call center in Jacksonville, Florida. I worked there from 1999 to 2002. Then, they opened a Sykes call center in my home town and I worked on their Gateway Computers account as a tech advisor. I would walk the call center floor helping the regular techs who answered the phones with computer problems they couldn't solve. Gateway canceled their contract with Sykes so I moved over to the MSN Internet account and answered the phones for a year. Yes, it was a demotion just because they didn't have a spot for me on the advisor team for MSN. That's why I left and went to work for Cingular Wireless. I was there when they shut down all the analog tech like bag and car phones. We had old people for days bringing those things in to swap them for a candy bar style Nokia. I was also at Cingular for the release of the very first iPhone. We were in a small, rural town so our line wasn't as big as everyone else's but I did make 3 months commission in one week. And I had one customer drive 2 hours because all the other stores had sold out. He bought 6 iPhones and all the accessories for them. The receipt was 11 feet long and totaled over $4000. Adjusted for inflation, that's over $6000 today. I was also there when AT&T bought us. I then worked for RadioShack for a few years. Anyway, moral of the story? Stay in school, kids, and use your talents for good.
@@shoeliver I just typed all this once, hit submit and, the CZcams app crashed. Let me see if I can remember it. Having that web server experience on my resume from high school helped me land my first real job at the America Online call center in Jacksonville, Florida. I worked there from 1999 to 2002. The writing was on the wall for AOL, broadband was coming, plus Sykes opened a call center in my home town. So, I went to work for Sykes on their Gateway Computers account. I was a tech advisor and would walk the call center floor helping the regular tech support folks who answered the phones with difficult calls they couldn't solve. Gateway ended their contract with Sykes and I got moved over to the MSN Internet account. They didn't have a spot for me on their advisor team so I answered the phones for a year. Yeah, it was a demotion so I left and went to work at Cingular. I was at Cingular when they shut down all their analog tech. We had old people for weeks bringing in bag phones and car phones and swapping them for a candy bar style Nokia or a free Motorola Razr. I was also at Cingular for the launch of the first iPhone. We were in a small, rural town so our line wasn't as big as everyone else's. However, I did make 3 months' commission in about a week. I had one customer drive over 2 hours to come to our store because all of his stores in his area were out of stock. He bought six iPhones, the receipt was 11 ft long, and it totaled over $4,000. Adjusted for inflation, that's over $6,000 today. I'm pretty sure he was going to flip half of them and keep the other half for himself. I was also there when AT&T bought us. That was not fun. People hated AT&T and still do. I also worked for RadiosShack and Circuit City. Anyway, moral of the story? Stay in school, kids, and use your talents for good. You also might work for a bunch of companies right before they don't exist anymore. It seems when I get a job somewhere, that company isn't long for this world.
@@shoeliver @shoeliver I just typed all this once, hit submit and, the CZcams app crashed. Let me see if I can remember it. Having that web server experience on my resume from high school helped me land my first real job at the America Online call center in Jacksonville, Florida. I worked there from 1999 to 2002. The writing was on the wall for AOL, broadband was coming, plus Sykes opened a call center in my home town.
I remember going to a classmate's birthday party in the early 2000s at this private "entertainment center" place that had a bunch of these hooked up to PS2s
I distinctly remember playing some SpongeBob 3D platformer on one. I don't remember which one though. I want to say B4BB, but I also think it was in 2002, so one of these statements must be false
fun fact, there was a whole industry for this and kinda still is for use with FPV Drones, they are basically the exact same, analog video input, modern ones have digital video in, you can put anything you want in them, but their purpose if basically to be a portable radio television, tuning into the TV channel being broadcast by a drone. legitimate Analog and Digital TV you can broadcast yourself and watch anywhere in range with a compact head unit. some even support head rotation tracking, so you can look around if you mount the camera on some servos. the reason i say "was" is because most of the goggles have become a bit too integrated, you can only use the manufacturer's system and protocol, which aren't interoperable with others of the same type, but smart people have put whatever they want still. DJI is the hard one to crack, but we have hobbyist options like Walksnail (real name) and HDZero, though of course analog still exists and will forever
Oh wow that looks a lot better than I would've thought, the S-Video support from Sony knows no bounds, they really incorporated that into as much stuff as they could. It's wild owning a pair of Xreal/Nreal glasses now and seeing that even back then there was a similar product. We've come a long way trying to make TVs portable.
What was I doing in 1998? Playing the shit out of Pokemon Red, listening to The Offspring on my cd player, and binging Dragonball Z after school. What about you?
I just acadentaly paused the video at 1:46 whre I read the note "Remeber... Use your head when you use your headset" I honestly just busted in to laugther. Self aware packaging
That is so sick. I was 5yrs in '98 and cannot imagine how I would've reacted to playing NES on that. Not to mention having it later, and playing the N64 or PS2
2:32 “things used to be made out of stuff”
😭
sounds like morty
:(( i'd like modern things made out of stuff
Copper steel bakelite and other cold war materials that build to last
Never has a truer statement been said.
The picture quality is better than I thought it'd be.
Sony was one of the top companies and they was making very good technology, good quality and that. They made their first real HD TV in the 80s as a CRT TV so if you think those CRT HDTVs from 2000s was the first HD TVs you are wrong lmao.
I mean tbh the lenses probably blurred the massive pixels 😂 but not bad for an ancient vr predecessor lol
@@nerd20fromdiscordThis specific model had two 800x225 LCD screens.
oh god thats low res XD
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@@nerd20fromdiscordFor 1998, no it isn't. That's nearly 400p.
I used to do IT for dental offices and we had one client that had much newer versions of this so patients could watch movies while getting their teeth cleaned. It made the screen look like a 50 foot movie screen, and being before the days of OLEDs and tiny monitors, I could just not wrap my head around how much fidelity came out of those tiny LCDs.
apple diversity vision headset
Pretty cool but I imagine sanitizing it is a headache.. its underrated how much dentists splash your saliva all over your face. Knew a dentist that tried using headphones for the patients, but stopped for this reason.
my dentist had this
in the 90s
Honestly back in the 90s these were GENIUS, with how big and bulky TVs were back then, these were the perfect option for people who didnt have a ton of space.
Funny enough, i'm planning on getting a PSVR2 and i'll still totally use it exactly like that for non-VR games from time to time.
Using a VR headset nowadays as a main screen is a totally legitimate use case, that thing was so far ahead.
I mean even if you did have the space, it's also a matter of sheer man power to move it, I mean he said these glasses look like a 50 inch tv, a crt that big would be like 300+ pounds, and even then most crt TVs never went quite that big anyways
The best part of the box is the fact that the French part reads personal LCD liquid crystal display, despite LCD standing for Liquid Crystal Display
Yup
fellow gungeoneer??
i love me some personal LCD LCD's
@@Eeeeeeeee75282 I bought one with money from an ATM Machine :D
Líquid Crystal LCDs go hard with personal PCs and VCR recorders
That's actually crazy impressive considering we are watching it through a phone camera ziptied onto a piece of glass and then compressed on CZcams. It's got to look great in person which is genuinely amazing feat for the time.
Honestly these would’ve been awesome when I was a kid, for some reason my dad put the tv really high on my room so playing anything would hurt my neck for staying too long in the same position
@@Powered1Buttercup That's the reason, so you wouldn't play ss much.
@@Killer_Space_2726-GCP well he failed because I did it anyway 😂😂
Don't forget we're watching on a smart fridge
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i like how simple it is. just plug in and use no crappy soon to be obsolete software to worry about
Ye
Back then tech was simple, now it's all over the place
Back in my day we bought something then just plugged it in and used it til it died and didn't have to sign into any subscription service or download an update or log on to verify your not pirating the software etc.
Uphill both ways !
Yeah no obsolete stuff to worry about. AV cables are still all the rage
(Nobody tell them that AV cables are obsolete unless you actively keep all your cables 👀)
@@GriffithFromBerk av is still used
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get well
At least they don't cost 3000$
bro ur pfp is hard asf having it as the xbox i fucking love it
@@xtc0 yeah these bang
With a quick inflation calc of $500 in 1998 to today they would have been a little under $1000
Still a lot of money, but only a third of the apple thing
It's like buying 3 iPhone 15 Pro Max $999 each
@@OverTheHorizon840you really think a 15 pro max starts at 999? Lmfao 😭😭
Sony does what Applen't
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Sony made the screens in the Vision Pro lol
amzing comment
Way better comment than it gets credit for
I don't know how I stumbled onto this but the enthusiasm is so palpable, I LOVE IT. I can't help but feel your excitement. Thanks for sharing this, man.
im glad you added in those dreamcast noises, instantly brought me back to the times playing ps2 and gamecube hearing those disc drives spin up. thank you for that.
And you can use Glasstron with anything that has video output. Something Apple Vision can't do
wonder if its jailbroken if it would be able to. but seems liek rooting and jailbreaking wants have been going down, peaople nolonger care their devices control them instead them controling thier device.
@@NightmareRex6 You cant software-add physical connections to a device 🤷♂
I guess in theory you could use a video encoder on a macbook and do the screen-view thing. It's not native though for sure. And lag...
@@FikuKromoUzuFajrovulponYou don't have to, it has a USB c (lightning?) Port
@@clxxxvii. USB-C and good point! 😁
I was in the navy back in early 2000s. I had a top rack with lots of overhead room. I actually bought these and ziptied a PS1 and eventually a PS2 into the overhead and ran an extension cord around the corner to a convenient ceiling height power plug.
On long deployments when there was no training or drills i could just lay in my rack, put these on, and play any PS1 game and eventually watch any DVD i wanted to, any time I wanted to.
Was so good. Worth every penny.
Jack shack!
This, I feel, is what the Glasstron was really designed for, those sorts of circumstances.
What ship? Was on the vinson and the Reagan. Take care.
Improvise, adapt, overcome!
What about Porn?
The reason they said not to drive with it is that some glasstron models had a flip up button that allowed tou to see through the screens - you could literally walk around and see the display and see whats around you. Pair this with an old portable (non display) dvd player and those 'camcorder' batteries you mentioned and you have a completely wireless (power source) personal dvd display and walk around.
Wish I'd had one. Would've hooked it up to my PSP in a heartbeat.
That model was larger and around $2k USD. Or about the cost of a AVP today.
This may be your most extraordinary work, sir.
5:01 On zip-ties - “These are a bit too short, but it’s ok, you can join them together. You make like a team, right? Undefeatable team.”
Simply remarkable.
He was so inmersed in the gameplay that forgot to taste the headphones lmao
What he said in the video suggested they were busted already.
I bet they taste like plastic.
I think it's probably like the prison buds, he doesn't wanna risk exploding them since they're hard to find
there's been a surprising lack in headphones exploding lately
Unlike most of the retro stuff I see on this channel, I could legit see myself using this at least a couple times a week connected to modern stuff
The display quality is kinda unbelievable for that time
there are glasses like this that are made nowadays that you just plug any hdmi device into and it just projects a floating screen over your vision or it has a cover you can put on the outside that blocks the light to make it basically the same as these, xreal is the only brand i know off the top of my head but there are other brands too
Is "modern stuff" an euphemism for porn? Be honest...
Its very low res though, perhaps there are newer chinese models with oled and wifi/bt
@@AthosJosue Counterintuitively, this is maybe the worst tool I could think of for watching porn
This is exactly what I’ve been looking for for years, but no reputable company makes just a screen strapped to your face any more
"Things used to be made out of stuff"
I miss stuff.
3:43 as a dreamcast owner, I can say yes, that's actually how it sounds
Can confirm
Kind of sounds like a psp or my ancient xbox.
@@SchnortExcept the Dreamcast also has the "dead battery in your VMU" screech, which gets longer and louder the more units you have plugged in.
Yep. Like they decided to mount the laser sled on corduroy rails.
That's how all glorious CD/dvd readers sound, the sound of nostalgia, how having a blast playing split screen classics like motorstorm with my mates, man
now that's a mad beast right there
you know it's crazy when it has "tron" in its name
back when companies would experiment with different things and actually go all the way in quality when they feel confident
i am indeed cool
or maybe it's because it was back when Trinitron was still a big Sony brand?
@@miaugato93 sony just named all of their patentable display technologies some variety of tron(trinitron, indextron, jumbotron, visortron, glasstron, plasmatron) for a while, they originally copied the naming pattern from chromatron which came from ernest lawrence naming all of his inventions some kind of -tron(cyclotron, chromatron, calutron,...)
Reminds me of Robotron. Nobody guesses correctly what that name stands for, unless they already know.
two things are for certain here on DankPods: dropping a full-screen text wall clarifying a minor phrasing issue, and Frank smelling
This was a blast from the past!!! Thank you for that!!!!! Soo awesome Sonic and Tony hawk and marvel vs capcom sooo cool!!!!!! Great video bro!!!!!
WOW! This just brought back some memories. My childhood dentist had one of these so you could watch movies while he was working one your teeth, so you wouldn't be scared by the visuals and noise of the dentist office. Man... I never though I would ever see this again, thank you for showing us. I have a core memory of watching Finding Nemo while he worked. Even to this day, he was best dentist I've ever had. He was so gentle, kind and soft spoken, true professional.
I've never heard of doing anything like this. That is absolutely genius.
Oh, the irony, considering that one of the major locations in Finding Nemo is a dentist’s office…
I liked going to the dentist because they had two little arcade cabs with consoles stuck in them. First had Ridge Racer V then PGR4 when I guess the PS2 had died or whatever. Either way pretty kino choices. Just IMAGINE if going to the dentist meant you were catapulted 20 years into the future of VR, except stuff didn't suck. Would have had the pearliest whites you ever saw.
sounds like a gr00mer
Sounds like he's in cahoots with the hearing clinic next door to drive up business.
The future looked so cool in the past 😍
That is actually such a profound statement. It's like if you could tell your young self what the future was like, they would say "that sounds AMAZING!" and you'd be like, "yeah... but, naahhh.."
I bought a pair of Vuzix Vision Pro 900 glasses way back in 2011 to make a functioning AR HUD monocle for a Ghost Recon Future Soldier cosplay and honestly these look just as good as those did, and those things came out nearly 10 years after these things did.
I love this man, I just simply cannot find this energy anywhere else on the internet. Nothing will ever get between a man and his niche retro media device that he recently bought and has been unsure if it functions properly or not. #relatable!
"Things used to be made out of stuff" is a quote of all time.
Sony made so much cool stuff and don't really get enough credit for how innovative they are. Glasstron is basically a very early HMD and Sony made one about 10 years later also called the HMZ-T1 and both of them were fantastic quality for their times, like your own persona cinema display. In addition to that Sony also invented the 3.5' floppy disk, co-invented the CD and SACD, invented memory stick duo, the SPDIF connector, LDAC bluetooth codec, invented portable music with the Walkman and Discman, invented Blu-Ray, had the first super thin laptops (VAIO) way before the Macbook Air came out, the first OLED TV (XEL-1), Triluminous display tech (which Samsung later stole for their QLED TVs), the best CRTs in the industry (Trinitron), the first OLED gaming handheld (Vita), the most popular game console of all time (PS2), the first handhelds that could play movies at high quality (PSP UMDs), water resistant phones, phones with 1 inch camera sensors, 21:9 aspect ratio phones before anyone else (Xperia), popularized mirrorless cameras (Alpha), beat Bose at wireless NC headphones, etc and to top it all of they made robotic dogs too (AIBO) Sony is really one of the GOAT tech companies
The T1 has OLED too! Crazy. Costs used 50 bucks now and with hdmi, still looking very good and are a steap
They also made Morbius.
I have a standing theory that Sony keeps its movie division as a tax shelter.
Also some of the best color accurate displays ever, not to mention sound systems and killer home theaters (especially for the prices). It's a damn shame that nowadays playstation is what carried them the most because I wish they could invest in bringing out more crazy and innovative stuff.
Great post but don’t for get MiniDiscs
Are? You mean were, they stopped being innovative ages ago.
I had some of these in like '99. Got given them by a friends uncle along with a Sega Genesis. I remember taking a trip from Austin, TX to Las Vegas that year. Sitting in the back of mom's van, being motion sick as hell while playing Sonic 3.
1:00 very informative thank you for clearing that up I was beginning to think some sort of implant was going to be needed. And for some reason it didn't freak out when I tried to pause this time.
0:43 The PlayStation can produce mind-boggling effects.
My mind has been boggled
My boggled has been mind
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"to top it off... we're plugging into a Dreamcast."
that was the most random ass thing I saw in a while. thanks Wade. the Cast of Dreams is one of the noisiest nuggets I know. that's why I love it so much.
"Things used to be made out of stuff"
Ah yes, those were the days
Now things are made out of shit. But atleast we're not in the alternate timeline where stuff is made out of things. Now that shit's terrifying.
Absolutely love this mate
Babe: Pig in the City is my favorite Mad Max movie.
The animal farm sequel was lit tho.
Ya'll are a perfect example of why I bother to scroll through the comments 👍♥️
Felt more like Jeunet than Miller tbh.
Being able to run off a a camcorder battery makes a lot of sense because i bet this thing is using the guts of a couple of digital viewfinders from a handycam or something.
Viewfinder! That’s exactly what it reminded me of
When I saw this in suggested videos, I misread "GLASSTRON" as "GLASSTROPOD". Now I'm imagining DankPods reviewing a shiny nugget like this that's shaped like a big slug and I love it
Geez. I'm getting all nostalgic for my Dreamcast. Those sounds.
And, holy cow, those LCDs on the Glasstrons were super decent!
There were actually a few models of these over the years, the last models released from 1997 onwards actually had a "see through" mode using LCD Shutters. Just like the apple vision pro, Absolutely mind boggling considering the tech came out over 25 years ago!
I must know so I can play Dreamcast games while my friend watches netflix
Yeah, I had a pair when I was younger. I used to play Bushido Blade on long road trips
Not mind-boggling, just shows the massive deceit these companies use.
You have to pay more because we don't know if our newly created tech will sell.
Meanwhile it's been selling for like 35y
Apple made a $3500 vr BUT THIS CAN WATCH VHS
Exactly! I want one! I wanna watch my tapes on this!
most smart apple fan
@@enghel381most self aware 4 year old
And Beta and Video 2000
Ok you had me Cracking up!!!! Great review, cool item!!!
quality is actually great. the style is rad.
Dank posts when I needed it, RIP to the Goat Toriyama
Whats a toriyama
@Yngdady Creator of Dragon Ball, character designer for Chrono Trigger and Dragon Quest, among other things. He died about a week ago, news just came out today.
@@YngdadyAkira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball Z
Press F to pay respects
the ghosting is objectively better than on the psp 1000. fucking wild
just watching how happy and excided you are getting the this to work and get the perfect picture made my day,
I subscribed. Good stuff man!
These things were "ONLY" 500 bucks too at launch!!!
Oh, wow, going by the prices on ebay they have actually gone DOWN in price, then!
adjusted for inflation (1996 to 2024) that's $999.17 😶
@@stall_jesus Christ no wonder it wasn't popular lmao
$500 in 98 was actually a lot of money.
$500 won't even get you a brand new smart phone.
@@mfowl777it _can_, but the phone isn't that great... 😅
What gets me is that those glasses are about 25 years old now. A quarter century on and still looking that good is impressive.
When he pulled out a dream cast i dropped dead. Bless your soul for this content man!!
Bruh you voice over is hilarious and engaging 😂💯✊🏾
You know what, gimme a modern version of this with with headphones I can change and it would beat VR for me any day. Like the ultimate dorm room device.
Any VR should really be able to do this as well.
@@Schnort But I don't want VR, I just want a cheap screen to strap to my face and watch stuff on. All the other extra stuff makes it more expensive with stuff I don't want to use.
Depending on how cheap is cheap in this scenario there are some, I've got some first gen Xreal (formerly Nreal) Air glasses that work really well and go for around 300 USD, though they need a separate adapter for anything that doesn't have DisplayPort over USB C. Can't change the headphones attached to it (which work like the sunglasses shown off a few years back with tiny speakers pointed at the ears) but can obviously use Bluetooth phones if the video device supports it
@@DerpyLaronSurprisingly enough a standalone headset is in the same price league as something like this. Thank Meta for subsidizing their headsets. That's how they sold more Quest 2s than Xbox series X consoles
It kinda exists still, you can get very similar devices for drone racing!
"Dreamcast noises"
Ahhh the good times of telling your friends "no no thats it loading... itll get get there" 😂😂
This is weirdly the culmination of a childhood dream. My friend told me that SEGA had a headset like this and back in the day we went trying to find it at SEGA World in the Trocadero centre. Now while the SEGA headset never was publicly released, it seems Sony had other ideas. Never seen or heard of the glasstron before, but now I'm filled with an urge to procure one if only to sit there and play my old consoles, and hopefully close the loop on an unfulfilled childhood dream.
Jet set radio!! Bro what a banger of a video! Crazy Taxi was also a banger
I remember when Sony put the suffix -tron on every single device. Good times.
I recall Trinitron, and now Glasstron. Were there any others?
@@redpheonix1000 copied from @dodecahedron1 above "sony just named all of their patentable display technologies some variety of tron(trinitron, indextron, jumbotron, visortron, glasstron, plasmatron) for a while, they originally copied the naming pattern from chromatron which came from ernest lawrence naming all of his inventions some kind of -tron(cyclotron, chromatron, calutron,...)"
@@billybricker9202 Ah right, I remember Indextron now, but I actually had no idea about the others
The motion rendering on that LCD is extremely impressive for that era.
@dankpods - you're only touching the tip of the iceberg. The PLM-S700 was a true stereoscopic XVGA (two lcds the size of dimes), with a (third) LCD shutter that allowed 100% opaque or 90% translucent view of the ambient environment. There was even a head tracking module. The tech was extremely amazing by even modern standards and the head clip made it very comfortable to wear. I sold mine for 2x what I paid for it when I needed to pay bills, hope it's still around and in some use. Thanks for the throw back.
I swear, the way Wade gets excited over old things.. Most entertaining show ever. Love to watch it 😍.
The wall of text was absolute gold.
In 1998, I was a junior in high school and getting suspended for 10 days for hacking the school's computers including the principal, dean, guidance counselor, 15 teachers, and the email server. The next year, my senior year, they put me in charge of the web server to build the school's first website. True story.
hero origin story lol
Hey Zack
@@shoeliver Having the high school experience of managing a website helped land me my first real job at the American Online call center in Jacksonville, Florida. I worked there from 1999 to 2002. Then, they opened a Sykes call center in my home town and I worked on their Gateway Computers account as a tech advisor. I would walk the call center floor helping the regular techs who answered the phones with computer problems they couldn't solve. Gateway canceled their contract with Sykes so I moved over to the MSN Internet account and answered the phones for a year. Yes, it was a demotion just because they didn't have a spot for me on the advisor team for MSN. That's why I left and went to work for Cingular Wireless. I was there when they shut down all the analog tech like bag and car phones. We had old people for days bringing those things in to swap them for a candy bar style Nokia. I was also at Cingular for the release of the very first iPhone. We were in a small, rural town so our line wasn't as big as everyone else's but I did make 3 months commission in one week. And I had one customer drive 2 hours because all the other stores had sold out. He bought 6 iPhones and all the accessories for them. The receipt was 11 feet long and totaled over $4000. Adjusted for inflation, that's over $6000 today. I was also there when AT&T bought us. I then worked for RadioShack for a few years.
Anyway, moral of the story? Stay in school, kids, and use your talents for good.
@@shoeliver I just typed all this once, hit submit and, the CZcams app crashed. Let me see if I can remember it.
Having that web server experience on my resume from high school helped me land my first real job at the America Online call center in Jacksonville, Florida. I worked there from 1999 to 2002. The writing was on the wall for AOL, broadband was coming, plus Sykes opened a call center in my home town.
So, I went to work for Sykes on their Gateway Computers account. I was a tech advisor and would walk the call center floor helping the regular tech support folks who answered the phones with difficult calls they couldn't solve.
Gateway ended their contract with Sykes and I got moved over to the MSN Internet account. They didn't have a spot for me on their advisor team so I answered the phones for a year. Yeah, it was a demotion so I left and went to work at Cingular.
I was at Cingular when they shut down all their analog tech. We had old people for weeks bringing in bag phones and car phones and swapping them for a candy bar style Nokia or a free Motorola Razr.
I was also at Cingular for the launch of the first iPhone. We were in a small, rural town so our line wasn't as big as everyone else's. However, I did make 3 months' commission in about a week. I had one customer drive over 2 hours to come to our store because all of his stores in his area were out of stock. He bought six iPhones, the receipt was 11 ft long, and it totaled over $4,000. Adjusted for inflation, that's over $6,000 today. I'm pretty sure he was going to flip half of them and keep the other half for himself.
I was also there when AT&T bought us. That was not fun. People hated AT&T and still do.
I also worked for RadiosShack and Circuit City.
Anyway, moral of the story? Stay in school, kids, and use your talents for good. You also might work for a bunch of companies right before they don't exist anymore. It seems when I get a job somewhere, that company isn't long for this world.
@@shoeliver
@shoeliver I just typed all this once, hit submit and, the CZcams app crashed. Let me see if I can remember it.
Having that web server experience on my resume from high school helped me land my first real job at the America Online call center in Jacksonville, Florida. I worked there from 1999 to 2002. The writing was on the wall for AOL, broadband was coming, plus Sykes opened a call center in my home town.
I'm so glad I clicked on this video because I have been following The drum thing for a year and only do I discover that it is not your only channel
You sound so happy. I love it.
I remember going to a classmate's birthday party in the early 2000s at this private "entertainment center" place that had a bunch of these hooked up to PS2s
I distinctly remember playing some SpongeBob 3D platformer on one. I don't remember which one though. I want to say B4BB, but I also think it was in 2002, so one of these statements must be false
fun fact, there was a whole industry for this and kinda still is for use with FPV Drones, they are basically the exact same, analog video input, modern ones have digital video in, you can put anything you want in them, but their purpose if basically to be a portable radio television, tuning into the TV channel being broadcast by a drone. legitimate Analog and Digital TV you can broadcast yourself and watch anywhere in range with a compact head unit. some even support head rotation tracking, so you can look around if you mount the camera on some servos.
the reason i say "was" is because most of the goggles have become a bit too integrated, you can only use the manufacturer's system and protocol, which aren't interoperable with others of the same type, but smart people have put whatever they want still. DJI is the hard one to crack, but we have hobbyist options like Walksnail (real name) and HDZero, though of course analog still exists and will forever
real facts
Oh wow that looks a lot better than I would've thought, the S-Video support from Sony knows no bounds, they really incorporated that into as much stuff as they could.
It's wild owning a pair of Xreal/Nreal glasses now and seeing that even back then there was a similar product. We've come a long way trying to make TVs portable.
This video literally had me laughing my ass off! “WOOOOOW mate” and also “get the water man…get the water man” comedy 🤣
Honestly, even from the crazy setup you had to use to show the footage, and for being Composite video..
.. *that genuinely looks great.*
What was I doing in 1998? Playing the shit out of Pokemon Red, listening to The Offspring on my cd player, and binging Dragonball Z after school. What about you?
Revising, probably.
I was probably going after snails, crushing them in my hands and cleaning my hands on my clothes.
I turned 18.. drinking like a sailor and listening to Nirvana a whole lot along with the offspring.
Deep in that Pokémon card elementary school black market
This video made me smile and laugh almost the entire time.
In 98 was enjoying my brand new gameboy xD
Great video
"How good do you want your product to be?"
Sony: "Yes."
Sony in the analog age: Yes
Sony in the digital age: Mehhhhhh....
I love how the dirty buds just helplessly dangle with no escape
"SmazDug-Flip-flop" had me dying ngl😂😂😂😅
This was definitely a Certified Dankpods Experience. Well done!
That is impressive as hell for 1998. I remember that year, and this was some legit futuristic shit.
The absolute style of this thing. I miss the retrofuturism of the late 90s and early 2000s
I had these and loved them!
2:44 ROJ was awesome and "You're only second rate" has got to be one of the sicked villain owning the hero trakcs EVER
Who DOESN'T want to watch VHS and play Dreamcast all day? Teenage me would have dreamed of nothing more lol
HEIL GLASSTRON!
Yours first
And I'm your first comment
✋😐
@@ABZ12309 2nd
HEIL
I dont know whats worse watching 9/11 on that or watching 9/11 on a shrek tv💀
Saw this channel existed from a comment on LGR. I’ll listen to an Aus get excited about anything and enjoy it tbh.
I just acadentaly paused the video at 1:46 whre I read the note "Remeber... Use your head when you use your headset" I honestly just busted in to laugther. Self aware packaging
you had me at babe pig in the city
MIND BOGGLING EFFECTS!
I actually remember these , and I tried them back in the 90s I was literally blown away
Despite I'm watching this ziptied to an iPhone camera, the video quality on that thing seems CRISP! I'd love to see one irl at some point
Oh man this actually looks really good it's insane that it just works so well
I want to see someone use this with a steam deck. That would be really cool! Thanks for the review DankPods!
These are actually pretty lit ngl.
2:23 those bundled in samsung cables are so thin
Honored to be the 69th like
Mine were slimy/sticky. Had to ditch them.
SMASNUG
5:25 when you download a chinese bootleg movie recorded in a theater
Okay, I’m speechless . That’s actually flipping amazing !!
Wooow, i didn't expect Jet Set Radio here, probably one of my fav games ever, this is actually so cool
That is so sick. I was 5yrs in '98 and cannot imagine how I would've reacted to playing NES on that. Not to mention having it later, and playing the N64 or PS2
0:24 What do you mean? My MDR-EX15AP is the catchiest name ever! They are different from MDR-EX15LP because they have a button!
Dont forget the SRS-XB100! Crackin' little thing!
That was cool thanks for sharing
well well, without those and everything in between there would be no vision pros today