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Virtual Reality History

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  • Sensorama

    Sensorama
    Mortin Heilig created a multi-sensor simulator called Sensorama

  • The Solution

    The Solution
    Ivan Sutherland proposed the solution of virtual reality: an artificial world that includes graphics.

  • First Headset

    First Headset
    Ivan Sutherland created the first Virtual Reality headset

  • Advanced Flight Simulator

    Thomas Furness at the US Air Force’s Armstrong Medical Research Laboratories made an Airborne Systems Simulator – an advanced flight simulator.

  • Glove

    Glove
    The VPL company manufactures the "DataGlove" and the "Eye-phone"

  • Popularity

    Lanier popularized the term “Virtual Reality”.

  • Audio

    Audio
    Scott Foster received a contract from NASA to develop the audio element of VR.

  • Mars Rovers

    Mars Rovers
    A NASA scientist named Antonio Medina made a VR system to drive the Mars robot rovers from earth in between the planets.

  • Arcade Game

    Arcade Game
    SEGA created a VR arcade game called SEGA VR-1

  • Virtual Boy Console

    Virtual Boy Console
    Nintendo released the "Virtual Boy console" which was discontinued one year later.

  • PTSD

    PTSD
    Georgia Tech and Emory University created war zone scenarios with VR for people receiving exposure therapy for PTSD

  • Google

    Google
    Google released street view

  • Cardboard

    Cardboard
    The cardboard headset was introduced

  • Public

    VR becomes widely available to the public

  • More Games

    More Games
    Hundreds of companies are producing VR games

  • Headsets

    Headsets
    Companies are producing their own headsets