It's strange to think that while computer hardware has grown in leaps and bounds during the last, say, twenty years, the act of playing a game on your computer has hardly changed at all. The guy who played King's Quest IV on his 4 MHz computer back in 1988, is not doing all that much different than a guy playing Devil May Cry 4 on his 4 GHz computer in 2008. Sure, the games have changed dramatically; but at the end of the day, playing the game -- plunking yourself in front of your monitor, moving your mouse, banging keys, has not really changed all that much.

Probably many people back in 1988 would have presumed that we in the year 2008 would be playing games in full virtual immersion, after a long day spent toiling for robotic overlords, who would be badgering us from flying cars.

Okay, so maybe the robotic overlords and flying cars is a small stretch, but definitely, nerds and proto-gamers from 1988 would probably be surprised that us 2008-gamers still would be using monitors (although thinner) and be playing our games with a keyboard and mouse (...let's conveniently forget about Nintendo's Wii for a moment).

In a very real sense, today's product we are going to look at -- the iWear VR920 Video Eyewear glasses -- are what many people from 1988 imagined we would be using in 2008 to game out.