Building an Economical Virtual Reality Lab


In Fall 2006, Calvin CS senior Josh Holtrop and professor Joel Adams set out to build a "low cost" virtual reality lab with a budget of $5,000. With head-mounted displays costing $25,000 and more, building a "low cost" lab was a challenge, but we were able to build a fully functional immersive VR system with six degrees of freedom for just $3990.

A student using the system The links below provide the project details.


Joel Adams > Software > VR count