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Brief History of Augmented Reality

By roamingtomahawk
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    Cinematagrapher Morton Heilig Creates and Patents "Sensorama"

    History of Augmented RealityThe "Sensorama" was a simulator with visuals, sound, virbation and smell.
    According to to Pocket-Lint.com's Dan Sung: "It was designed as a cinematic experience to take in all your senses and, shaped, rather like arcade machine from the 80s, it blew wind at you, vibrated the seat you sat on, played sounds to your eyes and projected a form of a stereoscopic 3D environment to the front and sides of your head."
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    Ivan Sutherland Invents Head-Mounted Display

    (Specific Dates at not exact)
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    Ivan Sutherland invents the head-mounted display

    According to Dan Sung: "In 1966 Professor Ivan Sutherland of Electrical Engineering at Harvard University invented the first model of one of the most important devices used in both AR and VR today - the head-mounted display or HMD."

  • Tom Caudell coins the term "Augmented Reality"

    Caudell comes up with the term "Augmented Reality." (in 1990- date is not exact due to TimeToat's requirement of spcific date)

  • L.B. Rosenberg creates "Virtual Fixtures"

    Rosenberg and others create one of the first functioning AR systems at the US Air Force Research Labortatory

  • ARToolKit released by Hirokazu Kato

    Hirokazu Kato of the Nara Institute of Science and Technology

  • First AR video gameARQuake project begun

    ARQuake project begun

  • Wikitude AR app released on the G1

    2008 brought the first AR apps to smartphones

  • Google releases protoype Google Glass Video