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In 1935 Sci Fi writer Stanley Weinnaum presented a fictional model of VR in his short story Pygmalion's Spectacles. In this Short story the main character meets a professor who made a pair of google which gives you "a movie that gives one sight and sound […] taste, smell touch. […] You are in the story, you speak to the shadows (characters) and they reply […] the story is all about you, and you are in it. -
In 1935 Stanley Weinbaum released Pygmalion's Spectacles. A sci fi story in which the main character wears a pair of goggles which transports him into a fictional world which stimulates his senses and features holographic recordings. many consider this to be the origin of the concept of VR. Because this story was a good prediction of the aims and achievements of the future. However this is not where it starts, it starts in the 1830s, when the first technological developments began.
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Cinematographer Morton Heilig created Sensorama in 1956 (patented 6 years later), the first VR machine. It was a booth able to fit four people at once. It combined technologies to stimulate all the senses, there was a combined full colour 3D video, audio, vibrations smell and other effects such as wind. The technologies used for this was scent producers, stereo speakers a stereoscopic 3D screen and a vibrating chair. Morton Heilig thought Sensorama was the 6 short films were later mad for it. -
Morton Heilig also patented the Telephere Mask which was the firs head-mounted display or HMD this provide wide vision and stereo sound. However there was no motion tracking at this point. -
Until Headsight was created by Comeau and Bryan, two Philco Corporation engineers. Headsight was the first motion tracking HMD. It had built-in video screens for each eye and a head-tracking system. However this wasn't really VR, it was developed for military to remotely look at dangerous by using a camera that imitated the movements of the user. -
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