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The Sensorama
The Sensorama was a large box which people could look into to see a 3d image, the Sensorama showed people two slightly different images to create the appearance that they were looking at something 3d -
The Sword of Damocles
The Sword of Damocles was like a pair of glasses like you would see at an optometrists office, it had a large machine above your head with with arms connected to the headset. The Sword of Damocles was more Augmented reality, displaying visuals on top of reality -
The view master
Many of you will recognize this one, the view master was a toy with a similar purpose to the sensorama. The View master was massively popular in the early 1970's -
The VITAL helmet
McDonnell-Douglas Corporation integrated VR into its HMD, the VITAL helmet, for military use. A head tracker in the HMD followed the pilot's eye movements to match computer-generated images. -
VPL research was founded
Jaron Lanier and Thomas Zimmerman founded VPL Research, Inc. This company is known as the first company to sell VR goggles and gloves. They developed a range of VR equipment, such as, the DataGlove, EyePhone HMD and the Audio Sphere. -
Oculus rift
In 2012 a Kickstarter campaign was started by oculus for a vr headset called the rift raising 2.5 million dollars -
Facebook buys Oculus
In 2014 Facebook acquired Oculus for 2014 bringing a huge amount of money in to the field -
HTC VIVE
HTC released its HTC VIVE SteamVR headset. This was the first commercial release of a headset with sensor-based tracking which allowed users to move freely in a space -
Oculus quest
In 2019 Oculus released the Quest, a revolutionary vr headset because it was stand alone and didn't require a powerful gaming pc to use bringing millions of people into vr -
Oculus Quest 2
In 2020 Oculus released the Oculus quest 2, with a larger FOV, a higher resolution and more power for better games the quest 2 sold millions of copies and is still the most popular vr headset in the world -
Oculus Quest 3
