It stood for "Visual Memory Unit," and they were little memory cards you could save game data onto. Unlike other memory cards, these ones plug into your controller and have a little screen on them ...

Modders give the Visual Memory Unit a second life as a portable that plays classic games on Atari, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Game Boy, and more. Raymond Wong. June 2, 2020. Sega Week.

The Visual Memory Unit, or VMU, is a small, Gameboy-like device that slots into your controller. Whenever you play a game, different designs show up on the screen: ...

Visual object memory refers to our brain's ability to store, recognize, and recall visual information about objects we perceive. This capability is essential for interacting with the world ...

Watch on YouTube. For those of you who aren’t rapidly hurtling towards their forties or indeed already there, the VMU (Visual Memory Unit) was a fascinating take on the memory cards of the time ...

If you miss the Sega Dreamcast’s visual memory unit, a recently published patent from Sony brings potentially good news.The next iteration of the Playstation’s DualShock controller may come ...

Some people can't form mental images. Here's what scientists are learning about the condition known as aphantasia—and why it's less rare than you think.

Sony’s PocketStation had its first outing at the 1998 Tokyo Game Show – three months after SEGA's unit went on sale – and it was officially released shortly afterwards in January the next year.

The Sega Dreamcast was ahead of its time in many ways, but one nifty feature that died with the console was the Visual Memory Unit, or VMU. It wasn’t the first memory card on the market, but ...

Take the visual memory unit, for instance. Sega's quirky and cute memory cards acted not only as memory units on which you could save your game, but also as important supplements to one of the ...

A used Sega Dreamcast with a portable Visual Memory Unit may just be the lifehack you need! As spotted on Instagram (via Ars Techina ), a VMU coder by the online name guacasaurus_mex is behind the ...

Sep 28, 2023: New perovskite technology merges light sensing with visual memory storage and retrieval (Nanowerk Spotlight) Human vision provides a model for advanced artificial intelligence systems ...