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First Head Mounted System
Ivan Sutherland developed the first head mounted display system. It used computer generated images to show users simple wire frame drawings. -
Videoplace
Myron Kreuger created an artificial laboratory called Videoplace. It used cameras and projectors to surround users with a visual lab. -
Birth
Boeing researcher Tom Cordell coins the phrase 'augmented reality' -
Virtual Fixtures
Louis Rosenburg develops Virtual Fixtures, one of the earliest working AR systems, for the Air Force. An upper body exoskeleton allowed the military to control virtually guided machinery from a remote location. -
Theatre
Julie Martin creates the first ever AR theatre production, 'Dancing in Cyberspace' -
NFL
The first AR yellow first down line is shown during the 1998 Superbowl. -
NASA
Nasa X-38 Spacecraft is flown using Hybrid Synthetic Vision system that uses augmented reality to overlay map data to provide advanced mapping and route planning. -
Hirokatu Kazo
Hirokatu Kazo creates open source software named ARToolKit. This is still used to widely compliment many Augmented Reality experiences - including 2016's Pokemon Go. -
Web Browsers
ARToolKit brings AR to web browsers -
Print Media
Esquire Magazine prompted users to scan a page to see Rob Downey Junior to come alive on the page - a first for print media. -
Cars
Car manufacturers start to use augmented reality for interactive manuals in car software. Voltswagen MARTA app allows technicians to see what a repair will look like on a car before they have made the fix. -
Google Glass
Google announce the first shipments of Google Glass 1 - this starts the modern trend of wearable augmented reality. -
Big Money
Magic Leap announce the largest investment in AR to date with a $50 million sum. -
$700m
Augmented and Virtual reality investment reaches $700m in this year. -
Hololens
Microsoft HoloLens Developer Kit ships this year - their first stab into AR Technology. -
Billions
Augmented Reality investment reaches $1.1bn
