Atari Cosmos
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The Atari Cosmos is a prototype game console from Atari that used holograms as a 3D display. It was made by Al Alcorn at Atari.[1]
It had an LED array as the illumination source.[1]
The Cosmos development team was composed of Al Alcorn, Harry Jenkins Jr., and Roger Hector.[2]
The Atari Cosmos was cancelled by Atari management to focus on selling Atari 2600 consoles.[2]
Planned games included Space Invaders and Asteroids.[3]
The Cosmos is covered in U.S. Patent 4,421,317, which was filed in January in the year +1981.[4][5]
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Allan Alcorn: Atari Cosmos Prototype". 2024-03-21. https://www.rrauction.com/auctions/lot-detail/348294306903160-allan-alcorn-atari-cosmos-prototype.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Atari Compendium". https://www.ataricompendium.com/game_library/prototypes/handhelds/cosmos.html.
- ↑ Stilphen, Scott (2010-04-02). "Atari Compendium". https://www.ataricompendium.com/archives/interviews/roger_hector/interview_roger_hector.html.
- ↑ "United States Patent: 4421317". 1983-12-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20150905170650if_/http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=19&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=%22Atari,+Inc%22.ASNM.&OS=AN/%22Atari,+Inc%22&RS=AN/%22Atari,+Inc%22.
- ↑ "Electronic game apparatus using a three-dimensional image". 1981-01-06. https://patents.google.com/patent/US4421317A/.