answer:When Nintendo’s Virtual Boy failed to deliver. Its 3D capabilities, while rudimentary by today’s standards, were quite capable at the time. But it only had TWO games out of its sad library that made use of the technology. Everything else they made should just have been on another Nintendo console that didn’t feature virtual simulation, but featured more than two colors. When I play Waterworld, I most certainly expect red or black, amirite? That said, I have no idea, but you certainly have a good point; seems to me that the word virtual is constantly applied to anything that’s an electronic gadget, or when talking about websites. I guess maybe it lost its meaning when virtual simulation stopped being something about faked immersion, and became something normal, like texting and going on Facebook. I denno. VB and its eye strain, FTW!